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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees. While the manual was written... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
comfort and privacy of your own home, and enjoy. And that's just the start, as the "anywhere, anytime" push to view movies and other content on mobile devices continues to grow. According to one Cisco report, smartphone video viewing will... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
products or services look beyond their self-interest and work to collectively build the institutional infrastructure, they—and society as a whole—are more likely to prosper. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
consoles (particularly handheld ones) were facing increasing substitution from online and mobile games played on social networks and/or mobile phones (e.g. Zynga's Farmville). First, could Nintendo come up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
This growth differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
compare work habits before and after the COVID-19 pandemic began. Starting in March 2020, when meal-delivery services became a fixture of lockdown life, drivers worked an extra 2.4 hours per shift, and earned an additional $39.50 per... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
compare work habits before and after the COVID-19 pandemic began. Starting in March 2020, when meal-delivery services became a fixture of lockdown life, drivers worked an extra 2.4 hours per shift, and earned an additional $39.50 per... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
and useful information to patient, physicians, and researchers. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709403 Launching Telmore (A) Harvard Business School Case 708-414 When the Danish View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the benefits of welfare-to-work... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
import-export firm in his native St. Croix. Sent to America for college in 1772 by local leaders who saw his potential, he soon joined the revolutionary army and was tapped for service on General George Washington's staff. Among... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
state initiative from above, civil society mobilized from below, using the judiciary to hold the state legally responsible for policy implementation. Reforms exposed acute gaps in service delivery,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
(MBA 1980) Crown This book is a fresh, intimate look at a series of American Presidents who took the nation into war and mobilized the country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any... View Details
- Web
Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
in the new world of fixed-line broadband and mobile convergence, and IoT networks. During her time in the corporate world, she also discovered a passion for entrepreneurship—building diverse ecosystems of innovators that “cultivate... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
mobility and absence of ties to land, to slave society, or loyalty to any particular state, worked to their advantage. No one had written about that before. So my editors and I agreed that this should be a separate book. Q: Albert... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
new offering that would "change the way people experience TV." The new service would allow consumers to bypass traditional cable and satellite delivery and use the Internet to access live streams of more than 40 popular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
create bionic solutions that "restored normalized limb function and improved quality of life" for people with amputations or other mobility impairments. The company's first product, the BiOM was a foot and ankle prosthetic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne