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  • February 2018 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

Amazon's HQ2 (A)

By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
In September 2017, the Internet giant Amazon announced that it aimed to open a second headquarters in some city other than Seattle, its current home base. By 2032, the company projected, this “HQ2” would be home to as many as 50,000 high-paying tech jobs and up to $5... View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Headquarters; Local Government; Incentives; Business Headquarters; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics
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  • Web

IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

Singapore, offering an in-depth exploration of the country's ecosystem with particular focus on the government’s efforts to facilitate an innovation hub that is durable and relevant. The course is specifically designed to expose and... View Details
  • Career Coach

Juan Pablo Botero

transition into the entrepreneurial world. Juan Pablo can help students navigate the entrepreneurial ecosystem and resources available at HBS, offering practical advice on which resources are most useful given a student's particular... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation

By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat
During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to... View Details
Keywords: World War II; Vannevar Bush; OSRD; Mission-oriented R＆D; Direction Of Innovation; Geography Of Innovation; Technology Clusters; U.S. Innovation System; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges; War; History; Government Administration; United States
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  • Fast Answer

Sustainability in Manufacturing Industry

adoption in production from proof of concept to industrial scale and how governments and civil society can best support the development of a favorable ecosystem for adopting and diffusing technology across industry sectors. Sustainable... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

decade have been (1) the rise of business ecosystems caused by falling transaction costs; and (2) the empowerment of users caused by the global spread of communication technologies. A business ecosystem is a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Digital Transformation Of Health Care

innovation in health care. HBS faculty, through their research and teaching, are examining all aspects of this digital ecosystem and sharing their findings with students and practitioners around the world. Annual giving to the HBS Fund... View Details
  • Web

Rhea Acharya | MBA

to daily calls with founders and formal investment committee meetings painted a holistic picture of the entrepreneurial ecosystem — and the synergy between technology and business necessary to solve tangible problems. In fact, the fund... View Details
  • December 2018 (Revised March 2021)
  • Background Note

Modern Automation (A): Artificial Intelligence

By: William R. Kerr and James Palano
This primer is meant to be a field guide to the late 2010s' surge in business use of "Artificial Intelligence" (AI), or enterprise software based in machine learning. First, it provides an overview of the key trends—digitization, connectivity, the continuation of... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Digitization; Connectivity; Computing; Future Of Work; Automation; AI and Machine Learning
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  • January 2020 (Revised January 2025)
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Freelancer, Ltd.

By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jennifer L. Hoffman, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Freelancers; Platforms; Digital Labor; Labor; Human Resources; Management; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Industry; Australia; United States; Philippines
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  • Portrait Project

Yanni Liu

markets for entrepreneurs and subsistence farmers near and far. I will stir the curiosity among American consumers that leads to informed choices, better health and conscious living. I will shake one of the oldest industries of human history while sustaining View Details
  • Fast Answer

Sustainability in Construction Industry

This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background readings The next normal in construction: How disruption is reshaping the world’s largest ecosystem The COVID-19 crisis looks set to accelerate an overdue... View Details
  • Career Coach

Nikki Talerman

housing/homelessness space. Furthermore, she is happy to discuss social impact work more broadly, and help direct students to the right social impact resources within the Harvard ecosystem for whatever topic they might be interested in.... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Floor It

research ecosystem have delayed the delivery of lifesaving advances. Think of it as a plumbing problem: The third-floor shower in an old house doesn’t have enough water pressure. The problem may be with the third-floor pipe, but it’s far... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Driving economic growth and job creation

"Our focus was first on stabilizing the economy for small business, and then on creating an ecosystem that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to do what they do best—grow and create jobs," said Mills, a long-time venture... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2022
  • News

Fed Plays Wait and See with Monetary Policy

  • 28 Jan 2022
  • News

Helping Trapped Low-Wage Workers, Employers Struggling to Fill Spots

  • 13 Jan 2021
  • News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

easily outsource the work. But this choice that BulkWhiz was forced to make because of the ecosystem they were operating in—it actually put them in a better position to meet the demands of 2020. Rashad: Most startups that have created... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Preparing Our Students for a Changing World

Harvard Innovation Labs Students at the i-lab facilities in Batten Hall (photo by Rose Lincoln) The Harvard Innovation Labs are an ecosystem that bring entrepreneurial ventures to life. Successful ventures like RapidSOS—a startup that has... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News