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Luc Sirois

participation fee) to take part in the hackathons. “To have a movement of so many people who chose to join, just for the cause—it’s mind boggling,” he says. As the movement continues to evolve, Sirois hopes to deliver impactful innovation... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

effects of climate change—as well as many, varied government policies trying to mitigate its effects—are also inspiring technological innovations that will give rise to new products, services, and business models in the coming years. How... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

01 Dec 2017
News

The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies

Media Partners, and China’s state-sponsored Shanghai Media Group. Hollywood’s commitment to VR storytelling will eventually usher the technology into the mainstream, Fan says. “It was never a question that VR was going to come, it is a question of when. Tech View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century, and could be pivotal in restoring public trust in business institutions, Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

deep learning. “We are excited about emerging markets, where we see high adoption rates of technologies designed for the point-of-care,” she says. “In the United States, we can use deep learning to generate rich information that enables... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. The boom years of the 1970s and 1980s—when Japanese management practices and View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

October 2012 (Revised August 2013)
Case

Global Unichip Corporation (A)

By: Willy Shih and Chen-Fu Chien

Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) is a design services company that acts as a front-end to TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry. In so doing, it masked the complexity of the latest process technologies, and reduced the entry barriers for small firms to... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

November 2008
Case

Syngenta International AG: Tropical Sugar Beet

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Alwin R. Kopse

Syngenta has developed a new sugar beet crop especially useful to tropical climates that enable double cropping to take place and provide both food and energy from the soil. Thus both the governments of Colombia and India are enthused about the new technological... View Details

Keywords: Food; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Environmental Sustainability; Technology Adoption; India; Colombia

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Educators

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

thing you hoped to promote. What the health care sector needs most, HBS’s Health Care Initiative said with the debut of Harvard’s Health Acceleration Challenge, is widespread adoption of the numerous View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

01 Jun 2009
News

Alumni Books

Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times by Scott D. Anthony (MBA ’01) (Harvard Business Press) In today’s economy, executives must slash costs while planting seeds for tomorrow’s growth. Anthony explains how: by pruning your business... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 Dec 2020
Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

is good for business – incorporating new perspectives encourages innovation and can also increase productivity and safety. In a psychologically safe workplace, when mistakes are made and learned from, the company can move forward instead... View Details

Web

IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS | Information Technology

a forward-looking system that offers ongoing flexibility and increased speed to market for websites and web publishing. The project team wants to empower HBS website owners by adopting a more user-friendly, self-service model for web... View Details

Web

Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Industrial Production & Materials Refrigerant gases, cement, and plastic are materials ripe for innovation Industrial activity that produces many of the materials used in commerce, as well as consumer products... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Leadership in the Digital Age

ethnographer by training, researched the connection between leadership and innovation for her 2014 book Collective Genius, which focused primarily on startups built from the ground up to be agile. To better understand the challenges faced... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1998
News

Short Takes

invest in flexibility where the likelihood of future changes makes this valuable. The authors identify three general ways managers can increase flexibility in product development. First, they should consider adopting inherently flexible... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

set-up, and why three dimensions are more powerful than one. Here's a Q&A and book excerpt. Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change Following the adoption of a collective bargaining agreement in 2005, National Hockey League GMs had... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

go off on your own and create something different. With consensus decision making and shared responsibility for everything, nobody feels responsible. In our book, we discuss how Japanese companies need to adopt more business unit... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

VenturesThis is the most consequential policy for advancing the low-carbon economy that we’ve ever seen. By offering 10 years of policy certainty, the IRA encourages technology innovators to form companies and it reassures larger... View Details

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

hoped to start a new life with their young son in their adopted country, but the immigration process would not be an easy one. “Everything was opaque and scary,” Wang says. “It was our one shot at being able to stay.” Stymied by the... View Details