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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
planned to stay in Boston after graduation; part of her learning curve has been getting up to speed on the ins and outs of state and local government, as well as zoning regulations and other hurdles to development that were nearly... 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
- 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
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Farrington worked all over the world in investment banking and a decade into her career, she hit a major speed bump. Deborah Farrington: Probably one of the biggest earliest challenges I faced in my career was being fired from Merrill... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel TVs, but less comfortable for manufacturers hoping to make a profit. That’s according to recent... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
bankruptcy. While initial ownership concentration is important for coordination of a prearranged bankruptcy filing, it is consolidation of ownership during bankruptcy-and specifically consolidation of ownership of voting classes-that has an impact on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
local budgets when extreme circumstances all but eliminate a major revenue stream, Green says. The research also spotlights the speed with which the pandemic inflicted damage on state and local budgets, as compared to the slow decline... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
silk-screened our printed circuit boards with real silk on wooden frames...; [we] made our own tools; we swept the floors." 44 In their 1957 plan, Olsen and Anderson outlined the steps toward the creation of a computer whose "capacity and View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
migrants, which helped US firms speed the development of new technologies. “Knowledge transfers through social networks,” Choudhury says. “If a firm created mechanisms where the locals would work with migrants, then that knowledge would... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
did against precious metals? I argue that they do. By and large all cryptocurrencies possess all of our favorite qualities in an electronic currency: speed of transaction, ease of portability (compared to say a credit card or a phone app... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
manager-has no real appreciation of what a marvel it is. But management is not leadership. Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
in the world is crazy." It's evident in labor markets, where the case of India and the software industry is just one example of how incredibly active things are right now. "Of course, the idea market is what scares us all," he added. "Everything is... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
and challenges. It was one of the best teams I’ve ever worked with.” In the US, Mango said the Operation Warp Speed team was “spectacular. They were focused on a single mission which was to save lives. That’s very motivating,” he said.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
another HBS case discussion in the spring of 1978, calculator in hand, Bricklin (MBA '79) had an epiphany: there should be a computer program that could speed up the tedious computations case analysis often demanded. His concept, the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
eureka moment: when we realized that the lack of digital identification has blocked innovation in the military community," Hall said. "Having to rely on face-to-face verification undermined the main benefits of online transactions: speed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
is the author of Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs (2002). While boards have improved in recent years, the speed at which they were improving lagged behind the speed... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
are many companies with which to partner. Being part of a cluster facilitates change and speeds innovation—both fundamental to modern, knowledge-based competition. Q: Over the next ten or twenty years, what new clusters do you think will... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
industry changed around the ideas we had. Today, the car is a mobile computing platform and the average luxury car has more than 200 sensors collecting information. We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services around it.” Mistele has View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
competing for Norway in 1500 meter long-track speed skating, won a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, fourth place in the 1994 Olympics at Lillehammer, Norway, a gold medal at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and... View Details