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carried from school. The fellowship enabled me to take a role I wouldn’t ordinarily be able to consider.” Measuring success at the consumer level Kasia joined Acumen in 2014 in New York City as an Innovation Advisor focusing on impact measurement. Her mandate: View Details

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides industry expertise on national security preparedness. Over that time, cybersecurity has snowballed from a back-office IT function to one... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

01 Dec 2018
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Raising the Barrio

Buenos Aires’s Villa 31 is within sight of Retiro, one of the wealthiest enclaves in Argentina’s capital. But the villa miseria—the Argentinian term for an unplanned shantytown—is a world away. The neighborhood is sandwiched between the largest railway station in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2017
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The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

Sawyer is one of two bots that Rethink Robotics has developed for the small-business market. (courtesy of Rethink Robotics) You can tell Rethink Robotics’ products by their faces: A small, white digital screen with two expressive eyes.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

A summary of selected new research by HBS faculty. Diversification Best Bet in Emerging Markets In today's era of global competitiveness, companies in the industrialized world have slimmed down their operations in order to focus on doing... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock

America were buzzing about Clocky, a clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping when its alarm went off. At that point, the device was just a project that Gauri Nanda, a graduate student at MIT’s Media Lab, had View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2005
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Winning Legally

Tool Kit executive education program. Her books include The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law, 2nd Edition (Thomson South-Western, 2003). What do managers need to do to become more legally astute? Legal astuteness has three components: attitude, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Dan Bricklin Classroom, Aldrich Hall 108 | About

technology entrepreneur, has been an active part of the computing industry continually since the 1970s. Upon graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bricklin worked for Digital Equipment Corporation until 1976, when he... View Details

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Kesha Kanakiya

candidates for her firm and can share candid observations on the lifestyle and how to succeed on the job; 2) PE Ops – Kesha interned in this field over the summer and has tactical tips to share on the interview process and industry... View Details

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Apr 2000
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affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in part because they work with View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

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John Smith-Ricco

experience got me thinking about the role of industrialization in economic development. The viability of South Africa depends on that development and the equitable distribution of resources." Eager to... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

chairing a two-year study - conducted by the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development and considered a model for other industries — called "Toward the Sustainable Paper Cycle: The... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback

office and do direct investing in Asia. “It wouldn’t be a strategic fit for us,” he explains. “The opportunities that are developing in India and China are markedly different than the opportunities we look for in the United States. China... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

paper was the basis for an article, "The Coming Battle of Customer Information," in the January-February 1997 issue of Harvard Business Review. Catchy Pitches Individuals seeking to start a new business or simply develop contacts often... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Mar 2010
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Alumni Books

created so much financial devastation. The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave (MBA ’82) (Portfolio) In an industry built on celebrity, media... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

several hours that night to do it. I wanted to present an honest understanding of what I thought his gifts were and what he might do with them. Within a week he had signed on.” Bradley’s uncanny ability to see talent and immediately intuit how it can be leveraged is an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details

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Their new patient-driven drug development blueprint may just end up saving the pharmaceutical industry too. Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL The world's premier league of spectacle and sport has... View Details

19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

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