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- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
littleny Can YouTube’s Users Help the Company Deal With Its “Moral” Problem?* This month’s mini-case described the dilemma faced by Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube: how far to promote “sustainability,” viewership, and (to some) free speech at the risk of losing what is... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Publication:California Management Review 53, no. 4 (summer 2011) Abstract Dynamic capabilities have been proposed as a useful way to understand how organizations are able to adapt to changes in technology and markets. Organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
independent bookstores in the United States, an all-time high according to the American Booksellers Association, but just six years after Amazon’s arrival, in 2001, that number had dropped by almost 50 percent. “This is a story of hope,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
sitting on a rare opportunity, and they must be systematic in how they take advantage of it if they want to make positive changes," says George, a Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, which develops medical View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
Patients with resources can easily go where care is provided. "Historically doctors moved from Africa and India to London and New York to provide care. Now we are basically flipping it around and saying, 'Why don't the patients move? It's not as difficult as it... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
the more concentrated the legislator's interest in the industry, the more informative are her votes for future returns. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/dimalcoII.pdf 2006 pub Friends in High Places By: Cohen,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing technologies and implications for organizations. There is advice for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
materials available + More Info – Less Info This article explores the impact of social media and smartphones on youth, highlighting parental concerns about increasing anxiety and depression. Data shows high engagement rates among children... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
http://hbr.org/product/rail-transportation-in-the-united-states/an/314084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-098 Flying High, Landing Low: Strengths and Challenges for U.S. Air Transportation The U.S. air transportation system flies View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 05 May 2025
- Blog Post
Meet the Tech Club
What We Do The mission of the Tech Club is to educate the HBS community on the latest technology trends and essential industry skills. Each year, we provide robust recruiting opportunities and foster meaningful social and professional... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. That’s roughly 2.5 times larger than it was a decade ago. About 75 percent of refugees come from Afghanistan, Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine, and Sudan. Agency employees face the staggering challenge of... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
our economy and our global competitiveness? The IS2K presentation "The Impact of Future Telecommunications Infrastructures" offered the two scenarios above, the result of an IEEE-USA/Cornell University project to point the way toward development of "ubiquitous, View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
Twitter soared high on its first day of trading on Nov. 7, with its shares closing the day at $45 for a value of $25 billion. Even though TWTR has yet to make money, investors flocked to the stock in droves, eager to own a part of the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
co-chaired the conference and co-edited the book, with the idea of capturing as much as possible of the excellent thinking that came out during this event. By "broadband explosion" we mean the coming together of real-time communication and rich media View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
Consider the title. "The Electronic Century" is the twenty-first century. The "inventing" refers to the creation of the technological and institutional foundations—the "infrastructure"—during the latter... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
efficient and higher quality. After I left McKinsey, I went to GE, where those two ideas came together. I saw the way that GE was doing high stakes face-to-face negotiations for materials, things like metal components, plastic components,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
Mercer Management Consulting, shed some light on the allure and promise of broadband technology in an October 1999 article in Scientific American. In "The Light at the End of the Pipe," Bane and Bradley talk about broadband's potential to... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
private-labeled digital devices at competitive prices. Yang credited Amazon for the company’s success. In addition to Amazon’s established infrastructure that helped it save on retail and logistics costs, “the key to building high quality... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
looking at how students are matched with schools. We helped New York City design a new matching system for assigning students to high schools. (Under their old system, 30,000 students were assigned to high... View Details