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- 12 May 2020
- Cold Call Podcast
Autonomous Vehicles Are Ready to Disrupt Society, Business—and You
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
temptation to fund whatever’s hot. Biotech is one example. Right now, 49 out of 50 states have programs predicated on the argument that their state is uniquely positioned to support biotech ventures, and that obviously can’t be true. The... View Details
- November 2019
- Case
DeepMap: Charting the Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles
By: Shane Greenstein and Nicole Tempest Keller
Founded in 2016, DeepMap developed high definition (HD) mapping software and localization services for Level 4+ autonomous vehicles. Traditional navigational maps were accurate to a few meters, which was sufficient for drivers but not for machine-driven vehicles that... View Details
Keywords: Mapping Software; Autonomous Vehicles; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Service Delivery; Global Range; Resource Allocation; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Auto Industry
Greenstein, Shane, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "DeepMap: Charting the Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles." Harvard Business School Case 620-047, November 2019.
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
Others say that many different groups cannot agree on anything, so such differences lead to a greater chance of civil war. The role of geography is also open. Nepal has a huge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
a private equity firm focused on the North American energy sector with $15 billion in funds. “We’d walk in the woods and think how amazing it was that this kind of geography still exists in New York.” So... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
founder of the Victors & Spoils ad agency in Colorado, who noted that when his agency sold its majority stake to global communications firm Havas in 2012, he was faced with trying to innovate within a... View Details
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
the inherent intellectual property issues can be sticky. This paper discusses how firms can address these issues by adopting a system of modularity, wherein innovation in one part View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 2018
- Book
Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World
By: Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier
In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained... View Details
Beckert, Sven and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B11): Salt Lake City Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Praveen Kumar and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B4): Columbus Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin P. Scibetta and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B1): Birmingham Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Natania Elias and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- February 4, 2017
- Article
Historical Transformations in Boundary and Land Use in New Delhi's Urban Villages
By: Sudev J Sheth
New Delhi’s “urban villages” are the result of government land acquisitions that began in 1912 and continued into the 1960s. Since the 1980s, growing demand for real estate within the city has engendered unprecedented residential and commercial development in these... View Details
Keywords: India; Urban Planning; Eminent Domain; Land Politics; Real Estate; History; City; Planning; Urban Scope; India; Delhi
Sheth, Sudev J. "Historical Transformations in Boundary and Land Use in New Delhi's Urban Villages." Economic & Political Weekly 52, no. 5 (February 4, 2017): 41–49.
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
digitally with the professor and each other through a proprietary interface that facilitates polling and chat, among other features. Launched in 2015, HBX Live collapses geography and enables a range of... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
"course researchers," whose class participation can be exceptionally valuable in the theory-building process. Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Captial Expansion Authors:Paul A.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B9): Nashville Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
source of America’s economic decline and fading international power and provide an action plan for restoring “true” democracy, in which politicians provide only the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections... View Details
- 2019
- Chapter
From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This chapter contrasts and compares the ways different colonial states in West Africa developed local fiscal capacity. We show that per capita revenues were higher in the more commercialised coastal export economies than in remote parts of the interior. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Capacity; Public Debt; French West Africa; British West Africa; Geography; History; Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960." In Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Africa and Asia, c. 1850–1960, edited by Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth, 161–192. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
said. Crowdsourcing isn’t exactly new. Lakhani, who is the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, pointed out... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel