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- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
constraints, Stephenson believed a digital world could be truly limitless. Chatter about the metaverse peaked in late 2021, almost three decades after Stephenson’s novel was published, when Mark Zuckerberg announced he would build the View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
might be working with peers in pharmaceuticals or defense to accelerate the development of virtual reality capabilities. In my work, I use the ethnographic methods of anthropology to study transformation as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
networks of networks. Currently, he said, universities and labs use it to connect researchers working on collaborative projects. These projects can range from building virtual reality models of the ear—a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
how fast it should be moving. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817127-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-405 Virtual Reality and the Gaming Sector 2017 This brief note... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia's energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to Ukraine's energy company in the depths of winter. The move confirmed the fears of many in the West that the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
2004–2016 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717477-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-013 Making Virtual Reality Real This note describes View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
continue to evolve. Performance improves and prices drop. Today, artificial intelligence is used in the selection of retail sites and to facilitate one-to-one marketing programs; voice recognition routes callers to specific store departments; View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
industries that can be anybody, anywhere. While some observers have dismissed the phenomenon as exclusive to "a few crazy Internet companies in California," the reality is this: the value of corporate incumbency these days is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
cheap and rapid iteration as cheap and rapid experimentation. The ability to run experiments cheaply and quickly is an important benefit when the cost of iteration is low. Simulation technologies, for example, allow automakers to run View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
“Supercomputing has opened up massive innovations in nuclear startups by allowing us to simulate the inside of a nuclear reactor for a mere $200 million instead of $6 billion!” As new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
bad results. If this premise seems plausible, then we should ask: Have recent declines in startup valuations and VC investments have been big enough to elicit another threat-rigidity response? Probably not—at least not yet. But when bright shiny objects—akin to today’s... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
innovative, social value-creating activity that can occur within or across the nonprofit, government, or business sectors. While virtually all enterprises, commercial and social, generate social value, fundamental to this definition is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
therefore establish a "relationship" that allows them to maintain contact with their customers over the long term. Recognizing this new reality and dealing with it proactively is the single most important dimension of enterprise... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
it as a chronic condition like cardiovascular disease, rather than as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting The Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
Digital Initiative and the HBX Live virtual classroom, the o-Lab aims to help businesses solve their problems by changing the way their company is organized, and to make that change by introducing a more theoretical and experimental... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
link the islands of expertise together, they need to look at two broad kinds of mechanisms, according to Pisano: organizational—"so firms can expand their boundaries to include multiple capabilities. Virtual integration is a form of... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
all possible ways. Pin down whatever balance sheet strengthening, if any, that can be attained. Keep a realistic, but positive public demeanor. Fear is contagious. Naidoo: Use the Agile approach to stay nimble Accept how challenging these times are, balanced with the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
strictly online. Who reads newspapers? Old guys. So this is an industry that is being dramatically transformed. “The reality for the advertising industry is that the old model is broken.” As broadband enables new forms of entertainment... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia's drug candidate through Clinical 2 trials with a to-market goal of 2014. "The Business Plan Contest taught me how to ground a... View Details