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- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In. Many data center owners have already cemented deals with utilities to get more of their electricity from sources... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
product offerings, start treating the third party suppliers like partners, and invest in local distribution centers.” Other concerns included those associated with changing customer shopping habits, the use of new technologies, and... View Details
- March 2008
- Case
Cambrian House
By: Peter A. Coles, Karim R. Lakhani and Andrew P. McAfee
Cambrian House builds internet-based products and services by relying entirely on its user community for all aspects of its innovation and new product development process. Users suggest ideas for new products and services and also participate in a monthly voting... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Voting; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Management; Marketing Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Product Development; Strategic Planning; Business and Community Relations; Internet
Coles, Peter A., Karim R. Lakhani, and Andrew P. McAfee. "Cambrian House." Harvard Business School Case 608-016, March 2008.
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
distributing it for hundreds of miles. Large areas of America could become uninhabitable. Over dinner, Mott and Popik, who earned a mechanical engineering degree from MIT before attending HBS, vowed to work together on an engineering and... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
From its seat at the tip of South America, belted by the equator, Colombia enjoys fairly steady temperatures—an evenness that’s counterbalanced by the seesawing of two rainy seasons and two dry seasons every year. Those peak periods of sun and rain make Colombia a... View Details
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Business of Sports
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
intermediate goods led by Multinational Corporations (MNCs). Foreign direct investment (FDI) became the dominant source of foreign private capital for many emerging markets, promising additional productivity gains for recipient countries.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
somehow revive the dormant business, stated a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal (March 13, 2001). Seeking a new source of supply, Shearer eventually settled on Trinidad and Tobago, better known as the calypso capital of the... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
efforts to improve living standards and open new possibilities for the 20 million (one in four) Filipinos who live in remote areas and lack reliable access to electricity. In May, three motorcycle riders embarked from Manila, leading an... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
model reconfigurations. We consider three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
organizations waste $2.8 billion every year powering unused PCs. In 2009, these unused PCs emitted approximately 20 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent — equal to the annual emissions of 4 million cars. Transportation accounts for nearly 30 percent of US annual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
Harvard Business School’s continued excellence requires ongoing investment—in people, programs, and ideas. The HBS economic model is tightly aligned with its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, where the revenue View Details
Jeffrey P. Bezos
Founding his company just as the Internet was gaining widespread usage and credibility, Bezos created the world’s largest on-line bookseller. Realizing that few bookstores, even superstores, carry more than 100,000 books, Bezos created an enterprise that could View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
software communities have shown that we can have a highly distributed model involving contributors from all over the world. Some people said this would never work. But open View Details
- March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Governing OpenAI (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Will Hurwitz
In late November 2023, OpenAI’s new board of directors took stock of the situation. The company, which sought to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)—computer systems with capabilities exceeding human abilities—was looking to regain its footing after a chaotic... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Board Of Directors; Board Decisions; Board Dynamics; Corporate Boards; Governance Changes; Governance Structure; Leadership Change; Legal Aspects Of Business; Nonprofit Governance; Strategy And Execution; Technological Change; AI and Machine Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Management; Mission and Purpose; Technological Innovation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Ethics; Nonprofit Organizations; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Technology Industry; San Francisco; United States
Paine, Lynn S., Suraj Srinivasan, and Will Hurwitz. "Governing OpenAI (A)." Harvard Business School Case 324-103, March 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
bigger challenge today is sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. Today, Hope and Comfort is still one of the few nonprofits distributing hygiene products, says... View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
discussion, says Ngwe. "Having a physical store is a much more cost-efficient distribution strategy than having to ship everything directly to consumers," he says. "I think a large part of what this work is about is... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
earned by HBP and Executive Education. This mix of revenue sources makes HBS less reliant on fluctuations in the endowment (and endowment distribution income) than all but one other Harvard school. The... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
for the University as a whole in fiscal 2015. The largest of the School’s three philanthropic revenue sources is the annual endowment distribution. The School’s endowment distribution for fiscal 2015... View Details