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- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
like Grubhub. For more, see It’s Called Price Coherence, and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers.) THE TEMPTATION TO CUT CORNERS COMPETITIVELY Edelman contends that the current competitive landscape encourages all TNCs to cut corners, or...
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- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing...
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by Jay Lorsch
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the...
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Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program - MBA
of exemplary women in leadership positions.” 4. You’ll get exposed to inspiring female alumni “I am inspired by Tracy Palandjian, who founded Social Finance US after a successful career in asset management and consulting. She is changing the funding View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
$10 million, the ALS landscape has radically changed. Most of the big drug companies are setting up ALS research programs and the number of ALS research publications is skyrocketing.” While effective treatments remain elusive, Kremer and...
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Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
this deeper understanding of purpose can serve as a trusted compass to help point the way through the increasingly tangled landscape of issues on which leaders are being asked to take a stand—such as social inequality or the war in...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
impact from this global pandemic and have an opportunity to use their investment decisions to support companies that make positive change. What about long-term negative impacts to the health care venture landscape that could arise from...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
environment where 115-plus local breweries work together to create some of the best craft beer in the country. In addition, San Diego County has done a nice job of diversifying its water resources. With that said, we expect the landscape...
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- 22 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges in Leading Professional Services
New Model for High Performance But lately the challenges for professional service firms (PSFs) have been growing in size and complexity, and the excitement is more the type you need a stomach antacid to control. The dilemma, says HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong, is that...
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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
has dramatically reshaped the competitive landscape and the founders must decide between pursuing their high-growth strategy versus retrenching—including cutting costs and pulling out of their first international expansion that they had...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
the educational aspects of computing. OLPC has made a difference already because it changed the landscape in terms of dreams and expectations. Observers can see what makes the goal of one laptop per child difficult to achieve. Says...
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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of...
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by Garry Emmons
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
rare opportunity to reimagine the workplace. What does the landscape look like now, and how strategic is the decision-making around office space? Maria Roche: I think there was a lot more experimentation earlier, in terms of letting...
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Jason A. Kilar
challenges you encounter because of the timing and the landscape in which you are starting the business. There is also the business model and the opportunity. What we’re doing with Vessel is actually very different than what we did with...
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- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
lot of the concepts we learned in TOM (RC class Technology and Operations Management) about bottlenecks to ensure that our clients were quickly attended to.” Adding to the challenge of managing their volunteer team was the evolving View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
piracy strategically to improve its market position? From a managerial perspective, these are significant questions. If it turns out that OSS will incontestably displace traditional software, software firms need to adapt as quickly as possible to the new competitive...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Sunrise to Sunset: Photography at Fort Sheridan By Steve Schaumberger (MBA 1988) Independently Published Steve Schaumberger is an avid photographer who finds his inspiration watching the many sunrises and sunsets of Fort Sheridan, Illinois. When renowned View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
volume have highlighted, much is still not yet known about the venture capital industry. The extent to which the U.S. venture model will spread overseas and the degree to which the American model will — or can — be successfully adapted during this process are...
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- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
they are navigating the global pandemic while innovating solutions to address climate change, resource constraints, and nutritious food accessibility. The conference highlighted the approaches that 12 different companies are using to change the View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its...
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April White