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20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

networking for resources, they actively search for new ideas by talking to people who may offer a radically different view of things. For example, Jobs talked with an Apple Fellow named Alan Kay, who told him to "go visit these crazy guys... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

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Bloomberg: short interest by company

How can I find short interest by company in Bloomberg? Type company ticker, hit EQUITY key, type SI and then hit GO for basic short interest data; e.g., GOOG US [EQUITY] SI [GO] For graphical data displays, use PgUp and PgDn to view tabular data. Short interest data is... View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Brothers Timeline Sept-Oct 2008 Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis Download the Exhibition Catalog (PDF) Lehman Brothers Archives Lehman Brothers Deal Books Search Exhibition Lehman Brothers - Introduction 1840s – 1880s General... View Details

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

started to reopen: Keep outdoor UNIQLO signs on. Yanai believed that keeping the lights on would be important to the community psychologically. Indeed, many customers searching for open stores were grateful to see the UNIQLO signs glowing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

through algorithms. Algorithms can be debiased by altering their inputs, but doing so requires managers to think about their goals around diversity and fairness. For example, LinkedIn redesigned its recruitment search tool to ensure that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

02 Apr 2020
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What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

leaders in this one. It leads to a syndrome of always preparing for the last Black Swan, a somewhat chimerical chase in search of the nonexistent. But stick with me while I throw some candidate lessons into the pot. For example, think of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds

"nanotechnology" under Sector > Verticals. You can apply additional filters, including location, amount raised, company stage, and employee count. Click Manage Columns to add/remote columns to the display. Export to Excel.... View Details

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Investment bank deals

How can I get a list of deals by investment bank? Go to Capital IQ Mouse over Screening, then under Screening select Transactions. Click on Add Companies under the List Management section. Search for the investment bank you are... View Details

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

turning to it for purposes quite different from entertainment. A search for a lunch idea on TikTok returns a collection of videos instead of a list as might be found on Google. A search for a news topic... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

Blog

Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories

trust, thinking strategically, analyzing trade-offs, working in a global organization, an understanding the role of the CEO." Daniela Terminel CEO Global Health Corps If you want to go deeper into the HBS participant experience, visit our Stories from Participants... View Details

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Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis

By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak

A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details

Keywords: Organization Design; Architecture; Modularity; Open Source Software; Communication; Design; Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Software

June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
Case

VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Health Industry; Mozambique

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01 Aug 2012
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Career Resources | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The Social Enterprise Initiative has compiled the information below as a guide to those embarking upon a social enterprise job search. Initiative staff members are also available for individual meetings with current HBS students and graduates. Job View Details

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Patent search: A comparative table of databases

reference search. (see a quick instruction) (HUKey required) Commonly used patent authorities databases: USPTO Databases Seven steps search strategy (A quick introduction for beginners) Database Coverage ... View Details

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Corporate bond ratings

Standard & Poor's. For historical ratings, select an individual rating to see what historical ratings may be available. Standard & Poor's RatingsDirect (available from Capital IQ). Hover over RatingsDirect and select Credit... View Details

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Jana Kierstead | About

opportunities for HBS students and maintained strong recruiting relationships with hundreds of global organizations. Before HBS, Jana worked in the private sector as a director at A. T. Kearney’s media and entertainment executive search... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

search of safety and arming themselves to defend their cities—is tragic and deeply unsettling. Published February 28, 2022 Statement from Dean Srikant Datar on Anti-Semitism President Bacow speaks for all of Harvard in urging us to... View Details

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

Careers From C-Suite to CEO Careers From C-Suite to CEO Interested in making the transition from C-suite executive to CEO? The path will be different for everyone, however, studies of successful CEOs, case studies of alumni, and feedback from executive View Details

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