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01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

that will make anonymity an afterthought. I think the Bitcoin public ledger will eventually hold so much valuable information that some very interesting analytics companies are going to emerge to make sense of the data. Has there ever... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Information; Information

01 Sep 2011
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Fall Speaker Series for Club Members

Six senior HBS faculty members, including Bill Kirby, Clay Christensen, and Bill George, will discuss their latest research with alumni this fall in the new Virtual Learning Series, sponsored by HBS Alumni Clubs. Each hour-long call includes a Q&A with the speaker. The... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
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Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

Henderson What would you do if you had the Dalai Lama's complete attention for 10 minutes? That's the situation Professor Rebecca Henderson faced in front of 1,000 people during a panel discussion with the religious leader, part of his three-day visit to Cambridge in... View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

01 Mar 2013
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Two Decades of Social Progress

The Social Enterprise Initiative began in 1993 with a pioneering mission: develop new insights and innovative approaches to contribute to the well-being of society. Driven by the vision of John Whitehead (MBA 1947) and the leadership of then-Dean John McArthur and... View Details

18 Nov 2013
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Diving into the 'Shark Tank'

Donna Khalife (MBA 2011, at left) and sister, Rosy, make their pitch on ABC-TV's Shark Tank. Donna Khalife (MBA 2011) and her sister, Rosy, were taking a lunch break from work on their startup Surprise Ride—which delivers a box of curated children's activities... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; parenting; childhood; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Sep 2011
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The Innovation Imperative

what we must do to assure a second great century for Harvard Business School.” With this issue, we are introducing a new feature, Investing in HBS, that highlights news and information about alumni gift giving and its impact on realizing... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Mar 2010
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Mass High Tech Names 2010 "Women to Watch"

Keywords: Information; Information; Information

01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique

digital, including allowing users access to a stream of information that they can track and sync with other performance data. While the shift would add both cost and time—and potentially push Nix into a more saturated wearables market... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

12 Oct 2010
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Underestimating Wealth Inequality

Keywords: wealth inequality; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

December 1999
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A3): Network Computer: Robert Gianni on Answering the Skeptics

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner

The concept behind the network computer (NC) at Sun Microsystems, Inc. was simple: bringing workstation performance to the desktop. Recent technological breakthroughs and changes in the marketplace made the NC project timely. But internal and external skeptics wondered... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Technology Adoption; Fluctuation; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; Computer Industry

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February 2006
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Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data

By: Lee G. Branstetter, Raymond Fisman and C. Fritz Foley

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Rights; Information Technology; Information; Analytics and Data Science; United States

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08 Sep 2010
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Last Look - September 2010

We seem to have stumped you in part with this photo. Thanks to Rich Holbrook (MBA ’80G) for identifying the “judges” as from his section: Mace Blicksilver, Jim Elrod, Steve Messner, Martin Przybylski, and Phil Stump. But no one remembers what the course or the case... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

November 2018
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Global Evidence on Economic Preferences

By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

This article studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey data set of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust... View Details

Keywords: Economic Preferences; Economics; Behavior; Surveys; Analytics and Data Science; Global Range

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01 Sep 2008
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Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year

Is it possible to teach entrepreneurship? If so, how? In July, 76 entrepreneurship professors representing 35 European countries, India, and Singapore arrived at HBS to learn more about the case method and the role it can play in educating future entrepreneurs. The... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that eliminates the penalty to saving; a... View Details

Keywords: ask the expert; Finance

05 Oct 2011
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New Study Taps Alumni Expertise

Keywords: Bulletin; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2018
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Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

Anthony Mayo—members of the School’s Organizational Behavior Unit recognized for their excellence in the classroom—quickly realized they needed to reinvent the way they taught. “We had to rethink basic factors, such as what information is... View Details

06 Dec 2018
News

Cold Call Horror Stories

you, you can’t let them down. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. For more information or... View Details

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Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli, Sabrina T. Howell and Karina Souza

In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the unprecedent crypto momentum as a window of... View Details