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14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

efforts to refine search capabilities. With that in mind, panel moderator Thomas R. Eisenmann, associate professor of Entrepreneurial Management at HBS, noted that the next wave in search tools is going beyond material on the World Wide... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

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Tony Perez

"Doctors are excellent at caring for patients"diagnosing and treating disease," says Tony. "But the overall American healthcare system has not been so good at creating a sustainable model for healthcare delivery. Our... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs

model has evolved since its launch. "We used to charge a transaction fee, but moved away from that for strategic reasons," Cordero says. "Now it's simply about customer acquisition and building a community." (Still, GradSave is currently... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Gradsave; crowdfunding; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

01 Dec 2015
First Look

December 1, 2015

2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

very large organizations. Several respondents commented on dangers to the Walmart business model. Benn Manning commented that "The real dangers for Walmart aren't competitors or new business models but are instead itself and how it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

Manager for three years. His next step was back into the corporate world to provide stability for his growing family. “I joined SAP and was promoted seven times in ten years eventually leading the entire Latin American team,” Dzodan said.... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

Historians have the wisdom granted by time. But for researchers trying to understand current events, especially in the helter-skelter Internet age, the world can change completely before the digital ink dries on the manuscript. That... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

this result and assessing how future work in this field should proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Modeling Expert Opinions on Food... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Patrick Connolly

community devoted to truly interdisciplinary and cross-functional learning. My choice was also largely a function of the distinctive learning model and the school's commitment to a rigorous general-management education-one that requires... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Other Financial Services

01 Sep 2015
First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have increasingly implemented broad and sophisticated non-market strategies. Within strategy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

announced earlier this month intention to join megapartners Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase on some still mysterious project in the fastest-growing market of them all, health care. These stories from our archive suggest the great impact Amazon has exerted on the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Mar 2008
News

Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded

completely engaging,” says Kim, a graduate of the University of Illinois. Interested in social enterprise, during his first year Kim met Nancy Barry (MBA ’75), former president of Women’s World Banking, at an HBS field study event. Barry... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2014
News

Taking Tailoring High Tech

the Boutique Online Shoptiques founder Olga Vidisheva (MBA 2011) offers all the technical tools and support a small shop needs to get started in the e-commerce world and a one-stop boutique shopping portal for customers. Thinking Inside... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion

01 Dec 2011
News

Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

public policy, and social challenges. In health care, for example, the dominant policy model assumes that access and affordability are the keys to improving care for the poor. In Ashraf’s view, “We can’t solve the challenges of global... View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

the Boston Globe , and J. T. Sullivan, automotive editor and writer for the Boston Globe , solicited more than 2,000 photographs from automobile manufacturers. Companies provided images of plants, manufacturing activities, assembly lines, View Details

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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS The history of polaroid, 1978 The History of Polaroid chronicles the history of this groundbreaking company, their many inventions including Polaroid... View Details

17 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

the Runway as a sustainable retail model enabled by digital technology. Personally, I have witnessed how technology can change industries, consumer desires and, ultimately, improve humanity and our everyday lives.” Bonita may well be... View Details

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

(in contrast to IBM and Univac mainframes) for business applications. "We felt what we were doing was important and we felt we had to show the world that our computers were practical, inexpensive and reliable," Olsen wrote, "And so we... View Details

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

Summing Up Globalization could spur organized labor to rethink its premises, objectives, and strategies. But the prospect for that is not clear, according to respondents to this month's column. As Arun Joshi put it, "Now that the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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