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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
speed limits (rather than by prohibiting cars or leaving the risk entirely to the market to resolve), we need to do much the same in managing the risk posed by the largest financial institutions. Above all, we must limit their leverage,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
rescue of 33 Chilean miners. More and more people in nearly every industry now work on teams that vary in duration and have constantly shifting membership. Teaming presents technical and interpersonal challenges: people must get up to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475725 Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation Author:William R. Kerr Abstract We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
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
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
McFarlan said, "There is no application gap at all. What is going on in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong is at the same rate of speed as what has been going on in Silicon Valley and Boston." In all of this, there's a hair's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library
Project I remember having the opportunity to provide a personalized library orientation to a student who arrived to campus early to work on a faculty project. I was able to get her up to speed for the faculty project, and also as a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
and concludes with a call to the reader to do whatever he or she can to speed the adoption of integrated reporting. A 2-phase Labeling and Choice Architecture Intervention to Improve Healthy Food and Beverage Choice Authors:Anne... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
and my partner for close to 30 years, Howard never ceases to amaze me not only with his keen intelligence and wisdom, but also with his ability to rapidly get up to speed on even the most complex subjects.” — Seth Klarman (MBA ’82),... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
release HBS Working Knowledge. The new portal represents just the beginning of what the steering group has in mind for this learning and research tool. Michalak notes that the speed of change in our work lives is altering the way learning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
back up to speed academically? Sal Khan: As we look to the next several months, we are thinking about how students are going to show up to school with huge gaps in their knowledge. Some kids will keep learning and might even accelerate.... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
shareholders," says Quelch. "Meaning they'll be able to manipulate prices in order to control the speed with which tobacco users migrate to e-cigarette brands." That means that electronic cigarettes, which are now... View Details
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
not just a few people contributing. KS: The program experience flew by-it seems we could have easily kept the discussions going longer as the virtual sessions allowed for more people to participate through the efficient use of the "raise hand" feature. The View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
very talented executives into the mix, you can help organizations change their effectiveness and their view of what's possible." Bannick agreed that investors should curb the need for speed when shifting their focus from financial... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
documents to get up to speed in a particular area and to find out who has done work on a topic. They then approach those people directly. When we initially looked at how consulting companies manage knowledge, we found that they all used... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
newsroom located in lower Manhattan on September 16, 2008. He knew a historical financial debacle was happening at his doorstep, yet none of his journalists were covering that beat. It would take much effort to get up to speed on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
and corporations. This is a far cry from the claims of the protesters at the World Trade Organization summits. Is it possible that globalization will be the catalyst that speeds up a process by which the poor get richer instead of poorer... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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America's Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind | Working Knowledge
at least one computing device. Even so, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that many people, particularly those in rural and low-income areas, lacked access to the proper equipment and internet speed to effectively learn and work from home... View Details