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- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a real-life allocation problem. Since TTC was originally devised for settings in which agents have endowments, there is no formal rationale for TTC in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
that any successful wireless product-development cycle would have to move much, much faster than the usual automotive life cycle. "My suggestion very early on was that unless we could suspend those rules, then we shouldn't even... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- October 2024
- Teaching Plan
Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble
By: Lou Shipley and Stacy Straaberg
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust embraced the importance of... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
commoditization continue to drive shifts in the value chain. The case examines the commoditization cycle and contrasts integrated solutions such as the iPod-iTunes software-iTunes Music Store with emerging competition from other MP3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
has a positive effect on current hours. As we show, the model also has reasonable implications for stock prices. We estimate our model for data post-1984 and show that the innovations shock accounts for nearly a third of the variation in output at business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
the much-neglected soil back to life through rotational grazing. “Nutrients cycle from the grass through our cows and sheep, and wind up back in the soil,” explains Reade. The global market for organic food and drink increased to $23... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
Edwin Land, February 21, 1951. Polaroid Corporation Records Related to Meroë Morse, b. VII.3, f. 12. As both a research and manufacturing enterprise, Polaroid translated ideas into usable technologies, mass produced and marketed its products, and repeated the View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
capitalist system works the way it does is because there are cycles, and the cycles self-correct. With too much excess, eventually you get a downturn. So the explosion in securitized assets was a ticking time bomb? It’s not amazing that... View Details
- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
of course, sequester carbon in the biomass and sediment.3. Creating a natural habitat: Mangroves are the natural habitat for a wide range of species, whose feeding, roosting, and breeding cycles depend on the health of these forests.4.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
impact on both students and business leaders,” he says. Examples include conferences, webinars, and more SIPs, which offer access to cutting-edge research on a faster timeline than the traditional academic-publishing cycle enables. The... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717430-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-033 A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic medical records and electronic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
conducted with two of its sponsors and five independent experts. The interviews were conducted beginning in 2003, over the four EURO project life cycles starting in 2000, with a primary focus on the tournaments taking place in 2016. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
devices configured to interrupt us make focused work a near impossibility for many. That inflicts a huge time penalty on workers, since start-stop-restart cycles are inefficient. Urgent and important things naturally draw employees’... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
Associated Press news wire as reported in US News and World Report, February 19, 2015. Leonard A. Schlesinger and James L. Heskett, "Breaking the Cycle of Failure in Services," Sloan Management Review, Spring 1991, pp. 17-28. View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
they still have only 1.5 percent, he said, which "would not be considered real progress.'' He believes those numbers can grow, but said it's going to take a commitment on the part of society as a whole. "We're in this cycle... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
Rico, Denver, and many other incredible locations. I was in the middle of a few other interview cycles for various health care roles, and I was completely torn. Do I accept the role with NPS, or continue to engage with the career path I... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government