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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
2001 Bluesolid (now Appear Networks) has created a software company focusing on WLAN and Bluetooth networks (the so-called WLAN hotspots). The company has gained 15 large corporate customers during its first year of activity, and garnered... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy over a two- year period. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
coworkers, Eckert says. Created for small businesses rather than the automotive industry—which makes up 70 percent of the US industrial robot market—Rethink’s bots do the boring, monotonous stuff. Humans get more interesting jobs: the precise cuts, the polishing, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Major Career Transitions by Michael D. Watkins (PhDDS ’92) (Harvard Business Press) Although leaders get their toughest tests in career transitions, far too often they fail to move effectively into new roles. Watkins shows how to survive... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
process and convince companies to consider the human cloud? The Answers: Seems like a good mix of broad PR and market education, together with high-value customer selling, will be required. The incubators and startup competitions are... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
companies that can afford to buy that—but there aren’t millions. And it’s very difficult to price discriminate on something which is a physical asset that you sell. Because if you’ve got effectively the exact same box that you’re selling to one View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
simply using subnational cases to generate or test theories about Chinese politics; instead, they propose that subnational political economies in China are a function of endogenous change rather than a reaction to national priorities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
Law & Economics: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 Authors:David A. Moss, Jonathan B. Lackow Abstract In the study of law and economics, there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
problems become computationally intractable (strongly NP-hard). We apply our model to assess the cost effectiveness of fecal immunochemical testing (FIT), a new screening method for colorectal cancer. Our results show that despite the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
customize products and respond to customers. Regional managers take responsibility for sales, product development, distribution, and manufacturing. As a consequence, the spans of control for managers back at the head office are relatively... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
and two laboratory experiments in food service settings suggest that transparency that 1) allows customers to observe operational processes (process transparency) and 2) allows employees to observe customers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
the preferred testing ground for Phase 1 clinical trials of new drugs, the benefits of massive R&D spending and economic throw-offs are being enjoyed elsewhere, primarily in the United States and in an increasingly competitive Asia.... View Details
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Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
New Ventures Competition; the iF Gold Design Award; and a Blavatnik Fellowship. Another team launched its innovation in thirty clinics. Students can expect to: Review their existing business, opportunities, and challenges, and develop strategies for sustained success,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
make a significant decision about their young company's sales function. DoubleDutch's key product was a mobile application (app) and event management platform that customers could use to better engage and connect with their event... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
April 2018 Management Science Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money,”... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
difference through their work. If they can align their personal purpose with the company’s purpose, there is a congruence that inspires them to do superior work, create great products and innovations, achieve the highest quality, and provide View Details