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10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

where approximately 217 million online players interact. This is an evolving landscape, with much growth remaining, Yoffie said. Of 6.5 billion people in the world, about 1.5 billion have Internet access,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

deal that brings some rationality to the valuation of Internet stocks. These are just some generic strategies, of course. Your viability as a nonconsolidator will depend... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

but achievements are equally driven by envy, greed, and fear, so emotions surrounding achievement can pull you in very different ways. How your values play in is another component to achievement. What are the kinds of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

of dried bananas, peanuts, and magazines from hawkers; rattletrap buses belch black filth; and all notions of right-of-way are wishful thinking. Average round-trip commutes of... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

of checked that. The second way is that coaches and entrepreneurs found each other, and while coaches were willing to take on raw recruits, they wanted them to be coachable. SS: So what are the implications then for a business that wants... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

July 2008 (Revised September 2009)
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ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Eee PC (A)

By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Hung-Chang Chiu, Yi-Ching Hsieh and Ho Howard Yu

ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest manufacture of PC motherboards, yet when it tried to launch its new sub-notebook Eee PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch; Groups and Teams; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry

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Should You Pursue the Certificate of Management Excellence?

three-year timespan for completion creates essential momentum. Faced with the rigorous demands of day-to-day work, many executives delay pursuing executive education, thinking to themselves, "I'll just do it next year, when View Details

15 Sep 2016
News

For the Good of Society

and working with Bain, and all this stuff to be of service to the world. The idea was, taking Bain and Company—and to some extent Bain Capital kinds of skills—and creating a spinout View Details

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

didn’t see the moment when finally things changed. But they played key roles in agitation, orchestration, or innovation.” Related Reading: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping UpBeyond Heroic EntrepreneursWhat... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2016
News

The Wheel of the World

close and personal with unique, world-class historical clocks such as Eberhard Baldewein’s 16th-century astronomical clock, located in Dresden, which depicts the movement of the planets. “One of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

consumption, fewer paved roads, and fewer Internet users," he writes. That wasn't all. "Almost all broad measures of governance were also weaker for the double-digit growers. Indexes measuring the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

July 2001 (Revised October 2004)
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PSA: The World's Port of Call

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Nancy Bartlett, Dolly Chang-Leow and Neo Boon Siong

Details the evolution of an e-business strategy and capabilities over a 16-year period. What began in 1984 as an effort to automate the port of Singapore to achieve productivity savings, by 2000 had evolved into a global e-business called Portnet.com. Closes as senior... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Business or Company Management; Shipping Industry; Information Technology Industry

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2014
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Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan

At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most powerful civilization in the world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest.... View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; Leadership; Power and Influence; China

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24 Apr 2014
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The art of thinking creatively

presence was the only thing missing at HBS when I went there,” says Schwartz, founder and CEO of Onex Corp., a Toronto-based private-equity and investment firm. “I wanted to change that.” Offices at Onex,... View Details

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS

and scholastic clubs. In college, it came from my passion for service and the uplifting of my community, and now at HBS it comes from a combination of all these things and then... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

living the philosophy she laid out in her 1988 Bulletin interview: "The happier people are those who have succeeded in integrating the things they want to do, rather than carving their lives into pieces." She says View Details

10 Jan 2007
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The Challenge of Managing National Security

Cases about extreme circumstances force students to think outside their usual domains. A second possibility is that the DNI becomes a mere figurehead for the intelligence community and a new layer of bureaucracy. That's the last View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

competitor's action as both a threat and an opportunity. Here are organizational and process changes that can help meet the challenge.It's one thing to recognize the importance of careful framing when you're... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

01 Mar 2015
News

New Idea: State of the Art

previous iteration, the new Cooper Hewitt “finds that merely looking at things is a hopelessly passive way of experiencing the world.” The museum work was familiar territory: Belsky’s career has focused on... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Adobe; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

2016
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The Empirical Economics of Online Attention

By: Andre Boik, Shane Greenstein and Jeffrey Prince

In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Behavior; Resource Allocation; Household; Cognition and Thinking

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