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- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
a gas station? If that is the case, why does it tick so rapidly when we use our PC? And what does this say about the future quality of work employing information technology? Or the patience of people engaged in such work? Or the impact that rising expectations... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
drag-car racer -- from zero to 150 miles an hour in less than two seconds before Baldwin throttled up to a cruising speed of more than 400 miles per hour and headed for his target, where he reached a "top-end speed" of over 550 miles per... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
capability of winner-take-all," says Yoffie. Many dot-com companies assumed strong network effects around their businesses, then lost more than a trillion dollars chasing something that didn't exist. Network effects can speed the... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
he predicted, the speed of new product introductions will accelerate the complexity of running extended enterprises, which in and of themselves will present managers with ever-greater challenges. All the while, technology will remain a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
engineers, for example, brought in anthropologists to help them design copiers that were more user-friendly. And Genzyme leavened the impact of the lawyers on its regulatory team with a sprinkling of scientists and liberal arts graduates. The result was an innovative... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
investment in math and physical sciences. Moving on to challenges Merck has faced, Gilmartin explained that new drug discovery tools have increased the speed at which its competitors can introduce new products to the marketplace, even as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
speed limits (rather than by prohibiting cars or leaving the risk entirely to the market to resolve), we need to do much the same in managing the risk posed by the largest financial institutions. Above all, we must limit their leverage,... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
and politicians on its most popular shows. Fox News Channel had spread rapidly by the 2000 presidential election, its expansion fueled by the wealth accrued by Murdoch and his wildly successful media empire. The speed and breadth of this... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
faculty to address the most pressing business questions of the day with the same agility and speed at which technology is reshaping the marketplace. “HBS is the premiere business learning platform in the world,” Jacimovic says, “but the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
to speed on these topics? In what way will this digital transformation affect alumni interactions with the School? We should be able to give them a much more customized experience. For example, we might ask alumni: Given your life stage... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
effectiveness of the one-to-one speed networking, where they could “practice their elevator pitches.” Monika Rogozinska (GMP 24), from the HBS Association of Boston, adds that the event was a chance to strengthen relationships with other... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
development? A: There are over 3 billion Internet users today (up from 300 million just 15 years ago). Less than ten percent of them are from the United States. That is to say yes, internationalization is very, very important. Q: The View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
that it should have responded sooner with “Absolutely right, and 4 that (among other things), we are v.sorry and are making it right. Plan 2 use video in training.” Classes tended to divide sharply on whether United’s response was very good or could have been better.... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Prepare for Your Interview with Research
will also want information that provides you additional perspectives and perhaps a more objective assessment. Baker Library can be a valuable resource and a huge time-saver in getting you up to speed quickly. Our team of eight librarians... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
ethics of human decision-making. It goes like this: A theoretical trolley is speeding down the track toward a group of people; the protagonist is next to a lever that, if pulled, will divert the trolley to a second track where just one... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
developed a clutch system and mounted our lawnmower engine onto my 3-speed bike. My top speed was 53 mph!” he says. With an engineering degree earned at Brigham Young University, Frey worked in the defense industry during the 1980s. When... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
restrictions and differential metadata add little strategic insight. Q: One motivation for using iTunes that you identify is the fast download time provided by Apple—you can enjoy the music you download almost instantly. But as broadband View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Bain, which will use Prysm’s online courses to bring its own clients up to speed on the economics of emerging technologies. “There’s a whole host of technologies that we could bring these frameworks to bear on.” “There’s a whole host of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
over speed in the fulfillment process. Walden aims to build a community of home cooks who are connected to local farms in a meaningful way, not simply a transactional purchase. The Question: With year-over-year growth at 75 to 100... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
company’s profits and cash flow. In addition, the founders worried that Amazon might cannibalize sales from its own website. In the end, Formlabs co-founder Max Lobovsky decided that control was more important than speed or ease. The... View Details