Internet Of Things - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

or breakup of the corporation has become inevitable. Thus, the CEO who asserted, "I have a duty to maximize value for my shareholders. I can't let my own sense of right and wrong get in the way,"... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

leading any other kind of institution," says Groysberg. "If you become a leader in a manufacturing company, for example, all you're basically going to have to do is manage. When you become a leader in a major financial... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement," HBS professor Anita L. Tucker and Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara J. Singer show that communicating with... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup

couldn’t afford, especially when Aaron’s baby was due a week after my start date. Yet, the lean experience has proven to be a blessing. The first thing I saw is that all of us have a deep belief in Brass... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

July 2018 (Revised December 2018)
Case

SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command

By: Herman Leonard, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman

James “Hondo” Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. The questions had a common theme: how... View Details

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04 Apr 2023
Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

15 Jan 2019
News

Working to Improve the End of Life

say they feel enormously reassured. A third of those who get the prescription never actually use it, but they feel enormously comforted that if things get rough, they will have that ability to gather their... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

theater and control is required to make people feel comfortable when fundamental operating systems change ." Narendar Singh Raj Purohit adds that " when things are getting out of control someone... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

My Time at HBS After 500 cases over two years though, I’ve realized that the most important thing for me is the idea of service driven leadership - those are the types of case... View Details

12 Feb 2016
News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

helped create tens of thousands of products representing more than 150 countries. The designers share in the revenues and the company offers literacy programming to its manufacturers. “For me, what I wanted... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

21 May 2024
Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

see how many things [Denmark has] in place to redistribute income and wealth. I was curious to understand how we got to this point, and how do we build a society that can redistribute more and have such a robust safety net. This led me to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

September 1999 (Revised January 2000)
Technical Note

Last Mile of Broadband Access, The: Technical Note

By: Jay O. Light, Lynda M. Applegate and Daniel J. Green

Provides an overview of broadband access technology. Includes technical overviews of cable, DSL, fixed wireless, and satellite systems, and suggests the technical suitability of each to accommodate broadband applications. View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology

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27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

about (again, see above). As part of my recruiting, I was able to meet on campus with Conor Walsh, Duolingo PM and MBA 2018. Conor gave me context on what it was like to work at Duolingo as well as on the role View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs

acclimate to. Trey Ford (TF): Just apply. Harvard knows a thing or two about education; skeptics are welcome. Fair warning: coordinate with those in your professional and personal circles and be ready-the program will require your full... View Details

20 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Tackle the First 90 Days of Your Next Role: A 5 Step Process for Success on the Job

employees up for success by designing an internal interview guide for conversations, and creating a 90-day plan laid out in three 30-day increments to meet key objectives and goals,” explains Spielman. The important thing to remember as a... View Details

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

such things are implemented." Kapil Kumar Sopory speculated, "The very idea of scanning someone's brain before employing him/her is mind boggling. And at present it may be illegal too it is all so... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

Harvard Business School. "Marla, my spouse, would see all kinds of things going on that I would simply miss. Why? Perhaps this was due to my tendency to focusing, and in my case, narrowly." In his... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

exciting thing they’ve seen in recent years, where you have the entire grid changing and the demand curve changing with the electrification of transportation. It’s also happening in rail and in other forms... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power