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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
distinctive mission and to put in place the processes that will allow us to recognize and implement valuable new technology and then use it to develop powerful new applications as quickly as possible." "As we thought about what we wanted to be able to do right away -... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
laboratory conditions, she was eager to confirm her findings in a real-world setting. That opportunity came when a Fortune 500 high-tech electronics firm agreed to an in-house study that would measure factors affecting creativity within... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
graduates who want access to the School's renowned inventory of management information. A new Web portal, HBS Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu), was launched in October, bringing together a wealth of information from leading print and View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Valley to Swaziland: How One Couple Found Purpose and Adventure in an Encore Career Quoted (iStock) “We’ve now surveyed thousands of executives at hundreds of companies, and they’re always shocked to see how poorly their strategy is... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
range of home and small-business users. The question the company faced was how to convince potential customers to buy it. The key ingredient: the product launch. “Product launches are always crucial for early-stage ventures,” says Cespedes. “Repeated View Details
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
legend in the newspaper community. The case describes the evolution of Schibsted's strategy from print media towards electronic media starting in 1995, including their choices around the internal structuring of new ventures. In September... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a veteran of doing battle with much larger Microsoft, has some words of wisdom on competing against a market giant: "If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, don't play chess." Glaser, president and CEO of the streaming media... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust their overseas partners differently depending on the partners' cultural ethnicity. In a field View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
donations. To assess their potential impact, an archival survey of voluntary, in-state whole-body donors to two programs procuring in the same U.S. state was conducted. The programs' specimen recipients were also analyzed. One program is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other countries. We survey past attempts at governance innovation, from private governance in India's industrial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
(Editor's Note: In a recent issue, Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter tackled the controversial issue of "commodification of the body." Harvard Business School professor Michel Anteby contributed the... View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
of expertise: Database management, statistical analysis, and visualization using STATA, SAS, SPSS; Text analysis using NVIVO; Survey design and Data Collection using Qualtrics; Domestic and International demographic datasets like ACS,... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
hierarchy in interfirm transaction networks in two industry sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than the automotive sector due to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20dunn%20norton.pdf Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game Authors:Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer Publication:B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (forthcoming) Abstract In variants of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
office architecture on employees’ interpersonal and electronic interactions. Working with co-author Stephen Turban, who was introduced to Bernstein by the late HBS professor David Garvin, their study yielded surprising findings about the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel