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17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

Holdings: “During this crisis, First Philippine Holdings (FPH) has provided stop-gap measures to support low-income communities with basic provisions until the government could mobilize its own resources and strengthen View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Creighton Taylor

2 experience in Accra, Ghana. There, Creighton’s team worked with the country’s largest entertainment company, Multimedia, to develop a mobile app for its media site. “I was both new to the industry and new to the continent,” Creighton... View Details

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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

of governing technology-intensive firms? And how can they build and sustain value in emerging technologies? Industries covered range widely, including Generative AI, esports, autonomous vehicles, collaboration tools, cybersecurity, cloud services, e-commerce, View Details

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

detailed panel dataset on supply relationships in the mobile telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying, and build technological and market... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press), HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana builds a case for the systemic argument. He also... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

July 2020
Technical Note

Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force

By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal

This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their... View Details

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June 2020 (Revised January 2024)
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TraceTogether

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta

By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore’s... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore

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03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

high tech community about social issues and the use of its technology. Senior executives of Apple, Tesla, Google, Uber, and Cisco, among others, already had spoken out about the treatment of migrants. A collection, led by Mark Zuckerberg... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven by... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

This is a repost from HBS Newsroom, see the original post here. “Climate change, and the energy and materials transition, is one of the most complicated and challenging business, geopolitical, and social issues of our century. At the same... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael Luca. That may be about to change. Thanks to the Internet, mobile apps, and a wide range of useful programs online, residents add to the pool of information with every keystroke... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program. Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details

08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

2009 Abstract This chapter explores issues of how Chinese railroads improved social mobility and standards of living along major trunk lines, and how foreign investment shaped the integration of the Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
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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

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery collaboration with UberEATS, and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

historical scholarship and address a wealth of questions emanating from them, Global History, Globally is a must-read book for all students and scholars of global history. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54306 in press View Details