Peer Production Collectives - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Nov 2017
Blog Post

Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way

into my internship, I was working on product design for the website: same principles and same customer focus. 6. Personality matters.Entrepreneurial environments are not for everyone, but HBS has helped me understand that it is for me.... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - Site Credits

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Turning Point: Make Your Life Count

Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details

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Catherine Yeo | MBA

Catherine Yeo Computer Science, Secondary in English Dunster 2023 Cohort 4 No founder succeeds alone — not without the most suitable co-founder(s), the right team, and a strong community of peers and mentors to build and grow together.... View Details

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

Entrepreneurs with demonstrated market-timing skill are also more likely to outperform industry peers in their subsequent ventures. This is consistent with the view that if suppliers and customers perceive the entrepreneur to have... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

ratios. Conversely, peer firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way

Mequon, Wisconsin, was sitting on three very disparate Rust Belt businesses: an industrial-lighting company, a medical-packaging business, and a welding company. In the middle year of his three-year OPM schedule, Chirchirillo saw the handwriting on the wall. “Overseas... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing

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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS Bates, George E. Polaroid Corporation . Harvard Business School Case 246-006, 1948. Bernier, Brenda. “Polaroid... View Details

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION... View Details

21 May 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

segregate, sort, and dry waste - including paper, glass, metal, and plastic - to send to a recycling facility that generates cleaned pellets repurposed for lower grade use. Tackling Mumbai’s waste is no easy feat: the city generates 6,300 tons of refuse every day, and... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Measuring Impact

founders of firms that collectively have an indelible impact on the world economy by creating jobs, fostering prosperity, and bringing innovative products and services to market.” In addition to measuring... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

part of their research, they have interviewed more than fifty people in two cities and collected data on some 1,000 communities since the late 1980s. They observe that organizations in different cities seem to have different foci when it... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

(SaaS) opportunities is one that many companies are exploring as they follow the friendly economics that can come from moving away from selling one-off products toward licensing products or services on a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

that could cost a company several months of time, hundreds of millions of dollars, or both. Later, working as a product manager for a robotics and automation startup after HBS, McLemore realized that the problem wasn’t unique to the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

24 Jul 2020
News

Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

peers on a group project?” Zaikos explains. “We’re trying to force them to make decisions about their own learning, about what they need.” The organization wants more Chicago high schoolers to apply and succeed in college, and Intrinsic’s... View Details

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

the providers' areas of expertise. This information would be specific to particular diseases or medical conditions, not aggregated across different areas of medical practice. A productive system would also View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

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Student Association | MBA

social events, and, offering products and services to students (e.g., yearbook and the HBS Survival Guide). All members of the MBA student body are members of the SA. HBS is about the people — the relationships, View Details

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Live Online Classrooms | Information Technology

can benefit from, and fully contribute to, case discussions from anywhere in the world. With state-of-the-art production studios located on campus in Cumnock Hall, HBS Live Online Classrooms are a community-wide resource available to... View Details

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Market Perspectives - Course Catalog

people with disabilities, and the like. We explore situations in which businesses’ pursuit of profits both positively and negatively affect their communities, including their employees, local physical and social environments. We use a View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

construction of the types of corporate alliances that are possible and productive to include collaboration with collectives that identify with political or occupational norms and values. View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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