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April 2002
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New Concepts for Corporate e-Learning - The Use of Virtual Classes at Harvard Business School As Best Practice

By: D. Quinn Mills and Dirk Seifert

Keywords: Learning; Internet and the Web; Higher Education; Boston

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spring 2001
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Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories

By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner

Keywords: Research and Development; Law; Patents; Information Technology; Communication

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01 Mar 2025
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Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)

South of the border: “Both sides of my family are from northern Mexico; my mom’s side is from Hermosillo, Sonora, just a four- or five-hour drive from Tucson.” On the beat: “I was captain of the drumline in my high school marching band and played in the jazz band with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

Dean Nohria: “Business education itself has been challenged to raise its game.” Video Update from the Dean Watch Dean Nohria's address to alumni at HBS 2011 Fall Reunions. The first year of Dean Nitin Nohria’s tenure was marked by shaping and articulating a set of... View Details

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

13 Oct 2020
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Running a Decathlon

Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who told him about his idea for a competition called... View Details

29 Nov 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk

An old adage about volunteers cites the value they bring to organizations as including “wealth, work, and wisdom.” These “three Ws” define the dedicated alumni body here at HBS. Although being a donor is certainly critical to sustaining the economic model of the... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

27 Apr 2017
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Going with the Flow

“Where’s your cash register? I don’t hear the cash register ringing.” Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) still recalls the first words her father, a small-town accountant, uttered when he visited ViaCord’s startup offices in 1993. “That was his way of saying we had to make... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Feedback

June 2016 (Cover illustration by Victo Ngai) Our new podcast Not everything we learn as we’re assembling the Bulletin makes it into print. Our alumni interview subjects often have more to say—additional perspectives or personal observations that deserve to be heard but... View Details

16 Sep 2015
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Thinking deeply about how to have an impact

Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), director of the Social Enterprise Initiative, is helping the next generation of leaders across all sectors—public, private, and non-profit—think deeply about how they can make a difference in the world. He is motivated by his own sense of... View Details

07 Jan 2015
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Promoting scientific advances

Fellowship recipient and donor Robert Steven Kaplan (MBA 1983) believes that helping those with a passion for science gain business skills will make a positive difference in the world. Kaplan is a former HBS professor, who now serves as president and CEO of the Federal... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Supporting the local community that nurtured him

Franklin P. "Pitch" Johnson (MBA 1952) talks about providing support to local organizations in his hometown of Palo Alto, California. (Published April 2014) View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Showing possibilities and new experiences to young people

Sam Duboc (MBA 1988), a private equity investor, talks about leading the nonprofit Pathways to Education to open possibilities and new experiences to young people in Canada. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co., 1969-77, 1980-85 State of... View Details

22 Dec 2022
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LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway

generated approximately 4,000 jobs, and about one-third of their founders are women. It's quite an impressive group." Alumni founders can find more information about the aNVC at https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/events/nvc/Pages/default.aspx. View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Jun 2016
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Navigating Fertility Clinics with a Click

fertility treatments and thousands of dollars, the couple realized how difficult it was to find and compare information about clinics, doctors, and other care providers. “It attacks you emotionally in a way that’s hard to fathom,”... View Details

December 1999
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The Effects of Physical Distance and Response Latency on Persuasion in Computer-mediated Communication and Human-computer Interaction

By: Youngme Moon

Keywords: Information Technology; Communication

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2020
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Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Ecosystems and Complementarities

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce two new building blocks to the theory of how technology shapes organizations. The first is a new layer of organization structure: a business “ecosystem.” The second is the economic concept of “complementarity.” Ecosystems are... View Details

Keywords: Business Ecosystems; Complementarity; Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations

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2020
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Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 2 Transactions in a Task Network

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

From the 1930s through today, many economists have conceived of large technical systems for the production of goods and services as a series of transactions. This point of view has led eminent economists to assert that transactions are the fundamental unit of analysis... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations

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