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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

involving the unintended consequences of social media and she performs and records as a classically-trained singer, R&B singer-songwriter, and jazz vocalist. Her CD Be the True Revolution is available on iTunes. Her next book will discuss... View Details

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob Navon added, “Is the New Economy here? Maybe The industrial View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

rest of us—keep up with technology’s relentless march? Have we gone as far as the eye can see? Told in five parts, Becoming, Transforming, Observing, Showing, and Curating, this book shows how each revolution in seeing has determined who... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

to design women-friendly online dating options: not a larger dating pool but a smaller, curated one; not anonymity but transparency—real names, attached to real Facebook profiles; and, most vitally, control of a streamlined online dating experience. The View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

era of capitalism will bring. Tom Dolembo commented that "the revolution that is occurring is a shift of cost from production of product to delivery of experiences Capitalism requires a belief that wealth is exclusively for a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

important but non-specified goals, harm interpersonal relationships, corrode organizational culture, and motivate risky and unethical behaviors. Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network? Download the PDF. In spite of the cultural and social View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

simulate counterfactuals, and develop tentative implications for pricing policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-034.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBT Plc: The Broadband Revolution (A) Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

mechanical, electrical, and acoustics engineers, including one known simply as “The Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as expressed in the company’s motto, “Every View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

Manufacturing Gains Professor Richard H.K. Vietor A train carrying oil tank cars near Gladstone, North Dakota. “The gas from this shale revolution has made petrochemicals, cement—almost everything, really—cheaper in the United States than... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

encompass all the innovations the digital revolution has enabled. When I started teaching, we used slide rules. The handheld calculator was the first round of the revolution. Personal computers and the spreadsheet changed everything... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

revolution has been unleashed. More and more people have access to more and more money to try out more and more ideas. So yes, money talks—and loudly. But the revolution also has psychological aspects that... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

for Bigbelly’s new XaaS model, the company has also been exploring the possibilities around adding more real-time sensors to their trash cans. Cities are currently undergoing a revolution in the way they collect and use data in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

strengthened by the rise of craft guilds in the sixteenth century. Legal scholars claim it was not until the Industrial Revolution that courts began to routinely enforce restrictions on employee mobility, though they generally held that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Metail Economy: 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the Me-Centric Consumer Revolution By Joel Bines (MBA 1999) McGraw-Hill Armed with computers, tablets, smartphones, and... View Details

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-012 Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space (A) Jeff Bezos, six years after starting a revolution in retailing with Amazon.com, turned his life-long passion... View Details

17 Jun 2021
News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Springbank Collective, a coalition of investors seeking to eliminate the gender gap, believes the “gender equity lens” for investing is a gateway to bigger themes, such as the future of work, the aging population, and the work productivity View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

Business School Case 715-006 Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution The 2014 Ukraine crisis once again exposed the mutually limiting knot-a web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines-that historically tied the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

replicated by other organizations. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413118-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-049 Germany's Green Energy Revolution No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details