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- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
Women are more likely to invent medical treatments for endometriosis, cervical cancer, and other female conditions, but the dearth of women scientists limits the potential for such life-saving innovations. Female research teams are 35 percent more likely than male... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
Publication:MIS Quarterly Executive 11, no. 1 (March 2012) Abstract The Chinese management software and IT services industry has grown dramatically over the past two decades and today is about the size of the Indian industry a decade ago.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2019
- Case
Twiggle: E-Commerce with Semantic Search
By: Shane Greenstein and Danielle Golan
Four years after being founded, in 2014, by former Google executives Amir Konigsberg (CEO) and Adi Avidor (CTO), Twiggle had developed a search enhancement that plugged into an online merchant’s existing framework. The company utilized advanced structuring and... View Details
Keywords: Search Technology; Customer Acquisition; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Technology Industry; Israel
Greenstein, Shane, and Danielle Golan. "Twiggle: E-commerce with Semantic Search." Harvard Business School Case 620-025, August 2019.
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
MBA Experience Curriculum 2ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to their roles as View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
from Innovation and the Intellectual Property Revolution Author:Gary Pisano Periodical:Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the publication of David Teece's article, "Profiting from Innovation"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
do they have more time to experience this content?" What does this bode for the future of economic theory and management education? Paula Thornton offered this opinion: "If there were to be a new discipline, it would be one that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12
the Use of Unverifiable Estimates in Required Goodwill Impairment Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Publication:Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate the current fair value of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
Owner/President Management Program, with plenty of lessons about branding and competitive strategy. Two Paths In Branding Yoga, cowritten with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and research associate Annelena Lobb,... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
from Colombia) and against the new Panamanian government (to get a better deal for the Panama Canal). The Colombians wanted to hold out until 1904 to make a deal with the United States to build a canal. The reason was that the properties... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
expertise to improve the lives of children and youth of low-income families in the Washington, D.C., region. Morino is the author of Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity. Alnoor S. Ebrahim is an associate professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “I hope it opens some eyes to the value of hard, risky, in-the-weeds science for commercial innovation, as opposed to ‘let’s just go build the thing and make it work on the fly.’” What does basing an... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Heterogeneity in innovation, given a cost of commercialization, results in NPEs that choose to act as "patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2020
- Chapter
Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build
By: John D. Macomber
As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,... View Details
Macomber, John D. "Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build." In Climate Change: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review. Vol. 12. HBR Insights Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
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Jana Kierstead | About
Executive Director, Jana leads a team of over 300 full-time professionals who manage the lifelong relationship students have with the School, from admissions and financial aid to student life and career services to reunions and lifelong... View Details
- September 1984 (Revised July 2005)
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Higgins v. Commissioner
By: Henry B. Reiling
Discusses the issue of whether an activity is a trade or business. The Court held that the taxpayer's very substantial stock and bond portfolio management activities were not a trade or business, whereas the taxpayer's real estate activities did constitute a trade or... View Details
Reiling, Henry B. "Higgins v. Commissioner." Harvard Business School Case 285-008, September 1984. (Revised July 2005.)
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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
managing— is essential to economic growth. The innovative capacity of a nation or region is heavily rooted in its microeconomic environment, in areas such as the intensity of scientists and engineers in the workforce, the degree of protection of View Details
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Planned Giving - Alumni
uses the remainder as you directed. Charitable Lead Trust A CLT enables you to support HBS and transfer assets to children or other heirs at a reduced tax cost. Gifts of Assets Complex Assets Tangible personal property (e.g. artwork or... View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0986298603/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me= February 2015 Strategic Management Journal Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
exploiting inefficiencies in the legal system regarding how we define and enforce intellectual property rights." Add to those inefficiencies the fact that patents are not like other kinds of property,... View Details