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11 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit

entrepreneurial spirit. After graduation, I entered strategy consulting to learn how companies run – from developing pricing strategies to winning customers – then joined a middle-market private equity firm, where I focused on the consumer, healthcare and View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

Africa's challenges, Sachs noted that the fates of the temperate and tropical zones are intrinsically linked, that information technology will be a tremendous help in overcoming many difficulties, and that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 Feb 2011
News

Rebooting the Human Condition

(with former Harvard Medical School faculty member Steve Gullans), Homo Evolutis: A Short Tour of Our New Species. Enriquez cites as particular influences HBS professors Ray Goldberg on agribusiness as a global system, Bruce Scott on international economics, and Row... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

Several years ago, on his first day of work at a Boston-based speech-recognition software company, Matt Marx's new employer surprised him with a non-compete agreement. The terms stated that if Marx left the company, he couldn't work anywhere else in the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

02 Apr 2013
News

Japan's Answer to Jeff Bezos Sets Sights on Amazon, America

Keywords: Information; Information; Information; Information

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

research. Dorothy Leonard: There are two streams of research that are coming together here. One stream is the research that Brian and I started a couple of years ago: the use of technology in aiding learning processes both face-to-face... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

substantial breakthroughs in life sciences technologies and continued breakthroughs in information technology. While there is no entirely new technology cluster evident on the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2012
News

Facebook Adds COO to Board as First Female Director

Keywords: Information; Information

01 Jun 2003
News

How Much is Fair?

Tobias Photo courtesy of Harcourt Author and columnist Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) discussed executive pay and American attitudes about compensation in an article in Parade magazine (March 2, 2003), for which he is personal finance editor. Asking how much someone should... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Dec 2008
News

Teaching is in his DNA

especially to his junior colleagues. Kim Clark, McArthur’s successor as Dean, often told the story about going into McArthur’s office for a career conference in the spring of 1984. Clark, then an associate professor in the Technology and... View Details

September 2023 (Revised November 2023)
Case

Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab

By: George Serafeim and Michael Norris

In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Green Technology; Goods and Commodities; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Entrepreneurship; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Production; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Boston; Sao Paulo

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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment

hard-to abate industries such as steel, chemicals, and cement, which are growing at the same accelerated pace as the country. Our visit to Ohmium, the first company we went to in Bangalore, provided a great introduction to the vibrant... View Details

July 2019
Case

Instabeat—One More Lap?

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar

This case follows Lebanese entrepreneur, Hind Hobeika, an engineer and competitive swimmer who spends seven years trying to launch a wearable heartrate monitor and motion sensor to help swimmers track their performance while swimming. While the Beirut-based... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Manufacturing; Prototyping; Female Protagonist; Business Startups; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Design; Organizational Culture; United States; Lebanon

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June 2025
Case

Transforming a Titan (A)

By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene

Dimitri Papalexopoulos, fourth-generation CEO of TITAN Cement, must decide whether to keep leading the 120-year-old, family-controlled firm or hand the reins to new management. Over 26 years he has turned TITAN from a domestic player into an internationally diversified... View Details

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13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

20 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston

Commonwealth Fusion Systems use of magnets to build smaller and lower-cost fusion systems to Sagewell’s use of data analytics to deliver solutions for energy efficiency to Wyss’ ability to bridge the gap between academia and industry to... View Details

09 Jan 2014
News

Tapping into Opportunity

be made environmentally safe," says Shenkar. "The oil and gas companies are working hard to respond to the evolving government regulations. There's a real opportunity here for firms that can quickly provide the technology to meet these... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

2023
Working Paper

Scapegoating and Discrimination in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Airbnb

By: Michael Luca, Elizaveta Pronkina and Michelangelo Rossi

We present evidence that discrimination against Asian-American Airbnb users sharply increased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a DiD approach, we find that hosts with distinctively Asian names experienced a 20 percent decline in guests relative to hosts... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Behavioral Economics; Market Design; Health Pandemics; Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Design

March 2022
Article

Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Clinician Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Use

By: A Jay Holmgren, Lance Downing, Mitchell Tang, Christopher Sharp, Christopher Longhurst and Robert S. Huckman

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic changed clinician electronic health record (EHR) work in a multitude of ways. To evaluate how, we measure ambulatory clinician EHR use in the United States throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Materials and Methods: We use EHR... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Electronic Health Records; Productivity; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; United States

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May 2021 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Zoom Video Communications vs. Microsoft Teams

By: Andy Wu

In June 2021, Zoom executives prepared for competition in the post-pandemic world. Zoom‘s breakthrough success in the previous year put the company in a position to set up many new opportunities going forward. At the same time, its success attracted competitors like... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Growth and Development Strategy

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