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- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
Working Papers Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences Authors: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
Four alumni ventures from distinctly different industries and geographies have been chosen to pitch at the 2017 alumni New Venture Competition on April 25 on the HBS campus. This year's finalists were selected from among 17 high-caliber... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
in Chilean Patagonia. Drawing on what he gleaned at HBS, he says, "We learned that market-based solutions can be effective and efficient tools to augment the work of governments View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
of the application process, automating it and making it digital first. Soon, however, big banks woke up and realized they did not have to cede this market to the disruptors. JP... View Details
- 20 Nov 2024
- Podcast
Beyond exit interviews: Knowing why workers quit makes for better job matches
Thinking of employees as 'hiring' their jobs opens the way to a detailed analysis of worker motivations, frustrations, and long-term goals, which can reduce costly turnover and make career development a collaborative process. Harvard Business School professor Ethan... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
intentional attempt to synthesize, abstract, and articulate the key lessons taught by experience. Drawing on dual-process theory, we focus on the reflective dimension of the learning process and propose that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
the business of automating trading floors. In 1994, Ranadivé sold the company to Reuters Group PLC for $125 million; it now employs some twelve hundred workers and operates separately as TIBCO Finance... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
which built the large machines that automate the production of cardboard boxes. “I’ve always been wired operationally,” says Thomas, who majored in industrial engineering at Stanford University before coming to HBS. That background,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Too Cool for School
content provider, including large universities. Khan quit his finance job in 2009 and turned his full attention to his online, not-for-profit endeavor, Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org). The academy focuses on K–12 learning with a... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
question around which many IT vendors design and sell their products. Instead, functionality continues to be king. New releases of everything from ERP to office automation software tout the new functionality... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 13 Aug 2025
- Podcast
Redefining success: Harrison Keller on the Texas higher-ed model
The Lone Star State’s experiment in outcomes–based funding rewards schools that produce “credentials of value.” Can focusing the curriculum on workforce development give Texas an economic advantage and distribute resources equitably? View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan, augmented by safeguards that serve as partial substitutes for the umbrella prohibition on serving rivals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
for all members of the HBS community. Replaced over 2,000 aged PCs that were delayed due to hardware funding cuts. Renovated the Shad IT service lobby to include space for TSS to collaborate with customers, and to feature a fully View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- Podcast
The business logic of supporting carers in the workforce
Employers can benefit by remapping their talent strategies to match the realities of workers with caregiving responsibilities. Bill Kerr is joined by his Managing the Future of Work co-chair and podcast co-host, Joe Fuller, lead author of the project’s latest report,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
pymetrics to help them meet their diversity goals. And the firm’s impact is likely to spread, thanks to its recent acquisition by Harver, an automated recruiting platform with global reach. Seke Ballard (MBA... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
controller business from the migration of value to software from hardware, the scope expanded radically as the company completed the acquisition of UGS. It was then able to articulate a complete roadmap from computer-aided product inception View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
some of the interest rate risk. In the 1990s a couple of things happened that set the stage for where we are today: There emerged automated underwriting and credit scoring. All of a sudden the world of the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
the challenge of managing an organization that was larger and arguably more complex would be good for me. For example, we have a team involved in automating performance metrics, which makes reporting very... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
4 months. southeastern us Merlin Mobility offers an SaaS platform that enables enterprises to create and deliver Augmented Reality-based instructions to smart devices, helping customers View Details
- 31 May 2013
- News
Seeing the Light
Business Policy course particularly inspiring. But his paintings show that the beauty of the campus itself was also an inspiration, with the School's exceptional physical and natural environment complementing View Details