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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
absorptive capacity has been to locate new R&D facilities in close geographic proximity to technology "hotspots" like Cambridge, Massachusetts, or the San Francisco Bay Area. Such a strategy is predicated on the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
talent to the funding you provide for key initiatives. We were able to move quickly and effectively in response to the pandemic because of the generosity of alumni whose gifts to the HBS Fund enabled the considerable investment in View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
technology offered two advantages. First, the company had been focused on creating not a single drug, but a platform for analyzing proteins and producing synthetic mRNA. That same process could be used to analyze the proteins on a virus... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
Diversity in the Workplace Harvard Business School Case 407-029 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407029 Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
many players who believe they can beat the odds." Advances and Advantages Technological advances made since the early 1990s continue to play an important role in exploration and production for all oil and gas companies, regardless of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
support the R&D and scale necessary to enter such sophisticated capital-intensive industries. There were no firms with the deep technological roots or the skill base to even begin. Yet government... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
democratize entry and allow for more experimentation to take place," says Nanda. "On the other hand, skeptics will say that these are companies that should not have been funded in the first place, and when it's time to scale up... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
looks at how the company built a digital organization that leverages AI and other technologies to speed its operations, manage its processes, and ensure quality across research, testing, and manufacturing in its race to develop a vaccine... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
includes laughter, music, eating well, and finding joy at any age; the role of caregivers and their critical impact on extending your lifespan; how your environment and demographics affect aging, and how to adopt new technologies and... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
the four days focused on a separate strategy: public market opportunities and risks, large scale investments through pension funds, measuring and integrating physical risks into investments, and scaling... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Authors:Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the impact of self-service technology (SST) usage on customer satisfaction and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
read "Go home Googlers." It was a daily reminder, she says, that something was broken. That this great technological revolution just wasn't working for everyone. Today, Ingersoll works as COO of Code for America, a San Francisco-based... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
what kind . Other topics include: Examining tradeoffs between taking immediate action and acting with an untested approach. The challenge of leading in situations where confusion and chaos often exist. Module 4: Scaling Expansion is... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
R&D Failures By: Krieger, Joshua Lev Abstract— I analyze project continuation decisions where firms may resolve uncertainty through news about competitors' failures as well as through their own results. I examine the trade-offs and interactions between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Agri-Food Entrepreneurs. We are currently supporting entrepreneurs in 34 African countries to scale their businesses. Changing narratives and driving transformation is a complex process. However, I am most inspired by the young African... View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
worse than the financial crisis,” says Mills, who led the United States Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. “Many small businesses will not survive more than a month.” Small businesses have been scaling down and temporarily... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
understand how to scale economic mobility and alleviate poverty through state and federal educational policy reform. After graduation, he moved to North Carolina to teach with Teach for America, so he could perform a “360-degree analysis... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
is helping grow the pie for everyone. “How do I scale myself?” she asks. The Answers: I think Lily should prioritize three to five markets rather than being overwhelmed about a national expansion, and a couple of tactical next-steps come... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-002 Classtivity: Payal's Pirouette A few months after launching a new fitness technology product, the small staff of New York startup Classtivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne