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- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
you’re from Miami. You won’t get into any of the accelerators. It’s just too bro-ville,” she says. One of Tuchman’s solutions was not to expect the funding to come to her. She traveled relentlessly and entered pitch competitions View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
boxing center. It’s all part of the regular outreach he conducts with local businesses to garner backing for the “support” side of the El Monte PD’s mission. Timken’s search for gang activity one recent afternoon includes using a digital... View Details
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
became a paramount concern. The MPEG-2 patent pool was thus formed in 1993 to develop a unified approach to licensing. Led by CableLabs, an R&D consortium for the cable industry, the group established a patent pool that almost all the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
the public sector. Nurture entrepreneurship to invent and build new solutions for challenging public problems. Determine the right stakeholder to take the lead (should government build the solution, buy it, or partner with another... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
questions that will help them regroup, mobilize their team, formulate a plan of action, and move forward." In his new book, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Kaplan argues against the notion that great leadership is about having View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
solution to bringing practical focus into the curriculum is "a year-long on-the-job exposure" for students after the first year of the MBA curriculum as well as "mandatory association with industry projects." "One... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
$340B market by 2027) are all creating a favorable atmosphere for new rare disease treatment options. The most exciting area of opportunity is in genomics and precision medicine (expected to be a $175B market by 2030). With 72% of rare... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
the brand logo’s “M” apart to signal social distancing. "Nearly a quarter of brands have gone dark, pausing all of their paid marketing communications for the first and second quarter of the year." Many other Chief Marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Sustainable Business Strategy provides participants with the knowledge and tools... View Details
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
processes and procedures work, dealing with problematic financial accounting, and facing the possibility of deteriorating service as the patriarch pulls away. “This is much harder than anything I find in my big-company cases, and it’s all... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Executive Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “The transfer from the field of polarized light to the field of photography was for us all a miraculous... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
thirty different countries, more than fifty different industries, and all functional areas. Participants typically lead (or are about to assume leadership positions) at the business unit, division, or country level. The first big... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
This will help in developing market solutions to confront environmental problems. In addition, last year we opened our mid-US research center with a goal of identifying opportunities for investment, innovation, and new engines of growth... View Details
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
stakeholder councils" comprising employees, lead customers, suppliers, and others offers a useful solution to the governance vacuum that exists in many large corporations today. Not so fast, says Gopi Vaddi. While agreeing that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
opportunities for workers with transferable, soft skills in the wake of growing automation. Employers and educators will need to focus on how they can cultivate those skills in workers and learners alike. Finally, any systemic solution... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
what assets to protect and which people to move? We all hope Al Gore and Greta Thunberg fix everything, but if they don’t, then homeowners, businesses, universities, and governments will have to do something.” If the pandemic laid bare... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
people to do senior managers all want innovation and risk taking in principle, but they don't have ways of measuring and evaluating it in the short term. So focus generally wins in larger, well-established organizations " What to do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett