U.S. Innovation System - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

physics. Learned how to design chips. And I came out to Silicon Valley as it was forming in the mid '80s. And I think because I was in the right place at the right time, it put me on a series of foundational waves. First, in silicon and then, in hardware devices--... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all of this technological View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

weapon called life experience. Just Change: How to Collaborate for Lasting Impact by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005) (Advantage Media Group) Equal access to opportunities for all citizens is the key to a sustainable national economy. To address View Details

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

study of companies in Western countries. But while innovation was the most important driver of high performance among the corporations in the Western economies, in Asian companies the key element was how customer-oriented firms were. That... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

feeling like, 'So what?'" someone else comments. * Note: The term "international" in this article refers to individuals who were born outside the United States and are not permanent U.S. residents. According to HBS officials, only those... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

susceptible to everything from intellectual property theft to uneven product quality. But the novel coronavirus created chasms. “One thing that COVID-19 revealed is the extent to which business systems were predicated on global supply... View Details

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

01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute

even in 1955, the system was not ‘entirely satisfactory.’ ” Integral to these report-writing courses was the corps of red pencil–toting young women who were hired to assess students’ papers. It was Copeland himself who “in desperation”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and ending structural inequities in business and society. Two new ventures led by HBS alumni are leveraging the power of philanthropy in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

in the area. The product had been in development for years prior to the disaster, says Polatoğlu, developed to address a rise in natural disaster–related emergencies caused by climate change. “Moreover, we have designed a special supply-chain management View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond

innovative IT department focused on using technology to increase citizen engagement and the efficiency of city services. Their flagship project, the Citizens Connect app (recently rebranded as BOS:311), sends residents’ issues into the... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

and uniforms, he would have a better life. And for 10 years, that’s what the family did. But after all that time and thousands of rupees they didn’t have, that family got failure. Failure from teachers like me who didn’t have the skills to help him learn and from a... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s director of special collections. More recently, that focus... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

some time networking. Webinar Tackles Race and Mass Incarceration Using Case Method Nearly 2.3 million individuals are currently locked up in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers. Of these, 60% are Black or Latinx. Why the mass... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2002
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Books

show the price paid and factory of origin. Confronted with an unforgettable image of redundancy and waste, division heads were immediately convinced that the purchasing system needed an overhaul. Many such successes — and pitfalls — in... View Details

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

to run the regulatory process in parallel with research. To save time and labor, the task force has developed turn-key trial protocols and invested in consistent assays for analyzing vaccine effectiveness, and the UK’s centralized health View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

edge of the most dramatic changes in our history. After earning an engineering degree, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force with the Strategic Air Command, America ’s first line of defense during the Cold War against Soviet... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

replies, "When I see the film clip of gymnast Mary Lou Retton at the 1984 Games receiving her gold medal, I think: 'The flowers left the refrigerator 20 minutes before she got them; the medal left the vault 45 minutes ago and was carried by an armed guard.' In other... View Details