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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

collaboration between the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) at Harvard Business School and the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) at UC Berkeley, with support from the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in... View Details

February 2024
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Horizon Quantum Computing

By: Paul A. Gompers and Billy Chan

In 2023, the Singapore-based startup company Horizon Quantum Computing was on the cusp of fast expansion and the founder faced the challenge to decide where to open the second office outside Singapore. To make a choice from the list of 10 countries, the founder had to... View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Disruptive Innovation; Business Offices; Business Startups; Talent and Talent Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Information Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Singapore; Asia

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07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gsj.28/abstract Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

juxtaposed the School's historic roots as an institution dedicated to American management practices with the increasingly global nature of business. Today, there's a clear sense that this will be a global century in which economic activity and business View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

scale, these alternative players have the potential to fundamentally change the way in which small businesses access capital, creating greater competition, price transparency, and a better customer experience. Emerging online players are pushing View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

01 Sep 2024
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The Road Less Traveled

(MBA 1996), is a more sustainable, space-saving, and fun solution. Dediu started thinking about these alternatives around 2012, while working with Clayton Christensen at the late HBS professor’s disruptive View Details

Keywords: Janine White; illustrations by WACSO; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

August 2022
Case

SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein

In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details

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01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

individuals face stubborn resistance to new ideas. Managers and executives often reject innovation and unconventional approaches due to misplaced allegiance to the status quo. In this climate of stifled creativity and inflexible adherence... View Details

24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

care. The paper contains an interview with Kaplan and Porter about their experiences with improving the measurement of health care outcomes and cost. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52117 forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Growth... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

scenarios, expected behaviors—and that this is a critical element of human intelligence. Translated into code, these biological functions became a unique learning algorithm, which Numenta’s business partner Grok makes available as an anomaly detection tool, searching... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

not to say the founders don’t realize the challenges ahead. In general, the mining industry is considered to be traditional, capital-intensive, and slow to adopt new technologies. To their knowledge, no one else is trying to disrupt the... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Welcome to the USA! You’re Hired! By Betsy Cohen (MBA 1978) Constead Press In this book author and economic development innovator Betsy Cohen presents wisdom from a dozen experts in career development and job... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

care industry to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. He recommends disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and new technologies that give patients... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential. Value as a Service: Embracing the Coming Disruption by Rob Bernshteyn... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck

exam at a testing center to receive the HBX CORe certificate. HBX Courses A second piece of HBX will comprise specialized courses, with an initial lineup of faculty members and courses that includes Clay Christensen's Disruptive Strategy,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

so increase your prospects for developing innovative products and services. —RT —Clayton Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration and the coauthor with Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen of The Innovator’s DNA:... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically

from molds. It was also dependent on tariffs and benefited from disruptions caused by European wars: The first half of the 20th century offered plenty of both. By the 1940s, Westmoreland had moved away from high-quality, hand-decorated,... View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

of companies that are helping create the conditions for the industry’s growth by amassing knowledge about best practices, influencing the development of regulations, exploring new uses for drones, developing a professional workforce, and so forth. The argument is that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

innovated as much on how we deliver the theory in these readings. In particular, I worry that my students will forget these readings very quickly as the readings, unlike cases, are not very experiential or interactive." Watching his... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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