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09 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads

programs, including the forthcoming Winter Olympics. Thales Teixeira Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration My top vote for best Super Bowl spot goes to Amazon's Alexa voice-loss ad. In a year in which Amazon and View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Telecommunications

01 Sep 2014
News

Feedback

BULLETIN EXPANDS DIGITAL OFFERINGS Following on the heels of the June debut of our iPad edition, the Bulletin is now available for download in the Google Play and Kindle Fire newsstands. Smartphone users have new options, too: The... View Details

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

of life in the home--should be viewed as a miserable chore. I look forward to coming home from work and spending time mindfully cooking fresh foods and ... yes, even mindfully housecleaning (it takes less than an hour. Seriously.). It's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

startup that designs satellite propulsion systems and hybrid fusion power plants. At Google he was a Vice President, and he was the Project Leader of Project Loon. Mike was the CEO and co-founder of several successful companies and served... View Details

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

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Product Management - Course Catalog

Educational Objectives: A Product Manager is obsessed with the problem their product tries to solve and works to both define the product’s functional requirements and lead cross-functional teams to develop, launch and improve their product over time. Taught by an... View Details

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

Takeuchi in collaboration with students—such as Google Japan’s response and recovery efforts and a regional fishing cooperative’s plan to rebuild its decimated workforce. Kenichi Nonomura (MBA 2012), who was on the first T ō hoku trip and... View Details

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

targeted ads on the lockscreen and home screen, consumers clamored for an ad-free version. Amazon backtracked and extended its Special Offers program to the tablet, allowing consumers to opt out from the ads. Q: You're expecting that more... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

27 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

is that participants write up their own case studies—an opportunity usually reserved for faculty. Some of the 18 cases published or in development in the "The Great East Japan Earthquake" series include reports on Google Japan... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002) worked at Google for more than 11 years, and she would usually take the bus to get there. And every day, on her walk to the bus... View Details

23 Aug 2019
Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was surrounded by incredible people, learned from world class... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and investment in green technologies.... View Details

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

pursue opportunity and successful new product development in spite of investor impatience. The real challenges may lie elsewhere, for example "the market place," as Jasper Ojongtambia suggests, or competition from companies like View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209036 Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-055 Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone operating system, faces new... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

an experiment almost a decade ago in which the company allowed a randomly selected subset of employees to work from home for nine months while the rest of the team stayed in the office. As it turned out, the employees who worked from... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

purchased by Google for $3.2 billion in 2014. Nolan and Natarajan “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan, director of FirstBuild—the GE/Local Motors partnership—are sitting with Rogers in the University of Louisville’s University Club in late April,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition - Alumni

Alumni . February 11 May 29 Canvas spring course access ends Download any course content you would like to retain ahead of this date. February 11 May 29 Harvard Library online student resource access ends Learn about accessing Harvard Library resources as an alum .... View Details

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

U.S. Home Mortgages Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Chap. 3 in The Future of Housing Finance, 26-65. Brookings Institution Press, 2011 Abstract This chapter analyzes the various forms of federal programs to support View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

Companies and government leaders have long tried to recreate the kind of Silicon Valley innovation magic that made Facebook and Google such goldmines. Cities from Cincinnati to Saskatoon have launched startup labs. Companies including... View Details