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01 Jun 2015
News

Lessons from a Megacity

finance, and academia in the two countries, in search of public-private solutions to some of a growing city’s biggest challenges. “Cities have the same problems they have always had, exacerbated by rapid urbanization,” says Macomber of... View Details

Keywords: April White; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

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Frances Dixon

As an undergraduate attending Tufts, Frances Dixon was deeply impressed by the idea of service to others. While searching out how to accomplish this life goal, she was inspired by the military officers she met. “They were clearly... View Details

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

transactions and markets we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste for certain kinds of transactions is a real constraint, every bit as real as the constraints imposed by View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

firms face little competition, even after the end of formal periods of patent protection and market exclusivity. Additionally, the evolving technologies of drug development—in particular, the increasingly common use of auxiliary endpoints... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Rachel Honeth

glamorous than reporting on it." A return to school to study marketing and advertising led to a summer internship with a start-up, Rise Interactive, that Rachel loved. In her senior year, Google searched for recruits and found... View Details

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Benjamin Story

Buzz Lightyear attraction in Disneyland Paris, and as a producer within Disney's virtual-reality technology group. "On one level, we were creating a fully-functioning simulation for a new attraction, the Radiator Springs Racers,... View Details

11 Nov 2021
Blog Post

ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate through buildings without a pilot, streaming... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

Illustration by Neil Webb Illustration by Neil Webb Josh Hoffman-Senn (MBA 2019) and fellow cofounder of LS, Jimmy Pemberton, launched their initial digital toolkit in 2021, after seeing fellow musicians search out supplemental income... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2019
News

INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired. In these markets, the most important thing is to be first, to win that Cadillac. If you’re not that leader, there’s little room to build a great business. If someone were to build a new View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments

Good database for finding technology management related articles, e.g. View Details

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

quality, firms differentiate through choosing different business models; and (iv) low-quality firms are generally more prone to opening some of their technologies than firms with high-quality products. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t alone in the search for last-mile... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

networks," says Piskorski. They can address some basic search failures: "It's hard to know what my friends are up to, but online I can catch up with them quickly." But they can also fix bigger View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

falter? What sets successful founders apart from those whose new ventures fail? Starting in 2008, I set out to interview hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs in depth, hoping to reverse engineer what had led to their outsized outcomes. As a writer, I also View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2014
News

Roads to Recovery

and increased fuel costs, according to a 2011 Texas Transportation Institute study. And that's not just rush-hour mobs. A 2006 study of New York City and Los Angeles estimated that up to one-third of the traffic in those cities consisted of drivers View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Mar 2004
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors

outreach of clubs and associations. One key recommendation involves deployment of new technology to improve club communications, including the ability to broadcast e-mail and share member data. The Alumni Career Services Committee is... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library

Americans, and Whites Nielsen reports on the African American Consumer Search using keywords African American or Black RKMA Consumer Behavior 2019-2020 report has a section on African-American consumers. Consumer & Business Demographics... View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Books

money searching for the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums, and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Career Coach

Layla A. Ramirez

Layla A Ramirez has more than 7 years of experience leading global, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) initiatives and coaching C-Level executives as they navigate their DEIB journeys. She is well known for coaching the whole person and for asking... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology

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Jan Pianca

Jan (MSc, International Management, Bocconi University) is the Educational Programs Assistant Director Europe at the HBS Europe Research Center in Paris. He focuses on European employer outreach to develop and manage the School’s relationships with European companies.... View Details

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