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- October 2016 (Revised February 2019)
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PTC: A Transformation to IoT
By: Rajiv Lal and Sarah McAra
In the 2010s, PTC, a leading provider of software for discrete manufacturers, faced maturing markets and changing customer needs as smart, connected products took hold—the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT). PTC saw a first mover advantage in entering the IoT space... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
Council, was just published in the Journal of Political Economy. He recently met with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss his new case and its implications for reinterpreting FDI. Martha Lagace: How does South Africa challenge conventional... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
Housing costs too much for working-class families. Young adults are forced to live with parents, or cram together. Households spend more money on housing than they can afford. For Americans, the news is depressingly familiar. Israel, a... View Details
- Web
The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
worker ownership. Worker Ownership and Profit Sharing Steward, Purpose, and Trust Ownership Private Equity Family Ownership Shareholder Ownership Early-Stage Ventures Resources How does ownership shape access to and allocation of the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
Entrepreneurs are routinely encouraged to form partnerships—don't dare do it alone. But new research shows the potential danger of getting too close to outsiders—particularly investors—when proprietary information can be leaked to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing
organizations, including the Boston Impact Initiative, The Business Equity Fund, LEAF, The Cooperative Fund of New England, and Common Capital, each of whom offered unique insights and recommendations on growing businesses in the greater... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
left each meeting feeling like a better person,” Letelier recalls. Letelier launched SITAWI Finance for Good in 2008 to recapture that feeling—and to introduce new financial tools into Brazil’s nonprofit and impact sectors. “If you think... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
mention his entrepreneurial spirit—can be traced back to his time at HBS. As a student, he loved former HBS lecturer Irving Grousbeck's popular course on starting new ventures and conducted a field study of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
held every four years, the Vendée Globe is the most grueling and dangerous prolonged competition on the planet. This year, thirty boats started and only eleven finished; Wilson came in ninth. At 58, the oldest skipper and the only... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
taxpayers and politicians, afflicted with disaster fatigue, will likely have limited appetite for subsidizing struggling cities like Detroit or Rochester or St. Louis. Steven Rattner's recent New York Times op-ed "We Have to Step in... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
clustering affect the American economy as a whole? Harvard Business School’s William R. Kerr sets out to explore those questions, and their implications for US immigration policy, in a new working paper, Social Networks, Ethnicity, and... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
like private equity fund managers, especially in terms of forming exit strategies at the time of business development; base decisions on an assumption of increasing competitive discontinuity and impermanence; avoid "cultural... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
producing companies became larger and more autonomous. Even producers, if they happened to be small operators of oil refineries, iron works, and cigarette factories, could not begin to compete with the new giants. So they often faced the... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
learning how to manage. Ultimately though, he would go on to spend 35 years at the company, becoming CEO in 2001. He was so dedicated to GE that, at age 50, he got the company's logo tattooed on his leg. Immelt, now venture partner at... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
of his new book, Life is a Startup, which Wasserman—who was recently named dean of Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business—discusses here with associate editor Jen Flint. READ MORE Flint: One of the things that you describe in the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
his drive was not quelled. “I was not content with this achievement,” he says. “In Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust writes that ‘the voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
managers to "'personally' drive innovation and competitive advantage." Gerald Nanninga placed the blame on "infestation" (parasites that successful organizations attract) and "cannibalization" (fear of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Sara Enright (MBA 2004) speaks with students at the Community College of Rhode Island. Courtesy Sara Enright When former Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo came into office in 2015, she included in her plans to make the state more economically View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
track where your order is in the assembly process, even before it is ready for shipment. What we have learned from a host of these new applications is indeed important. When we first did the research study, our focus was on customer... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
that ensured their executives would receive above-average pay even though all executives can't be above average. The market for executives is not one in which there are strong competitive pressures to keep compensation down; so, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons