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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Chicago's difficult decision recently to close a number of schools, given that there were too many facilities for too few students. The goal is for the remaining students to thrive with more resources per capita, with a focus on developing View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
who are experimenting with augmenting human function will hit the mainstream, even if the science hasn’t quite caught up. “Novel frameworks for thinking about regulation and academic technology transfer will... View Details
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Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School
Working Knowledge Finance and Investing Crypto Is Growing Up. Are Companies Ready? Blockchain is so much more than Bitcoin, and the technology can be used to protect itself against cyber crime, says Daniel Rabetti. By Rachel Layne on May... View Details
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Charmian Love Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Quantum Theory & the Rise of the B Corporation Charmian Love Kim Coupounas 19 Jul 2018... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
objective was met. Our space research gave rise to Silicon Valley, and U.S. industrial strength was enhanced by technology innovation derived from products created for our satellite program. By 1980, however, Europe, helped by the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
One is a very scientific mission and the other is a commercial mission. On the scientific side, our objective is literally to reverse engineer the human neocortex. Figure out how the brain works. That is the core of who we are and why... View Details
- Portrait Project
Yong-yi Zhu
city? To me, technology is the answer. I want to improve our communications infrastructure. I want to find more efficient ways to travel. I want to make today's innovations tomorrow's reality. By doing that, I will build more meaningful... View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Making a broader impact with multiple disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)
beyond human capability. I focus on commercializing science and building businesses around these transformative technologies to democratize access to high-quality surgical care for billions worldwide. My... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
interactions between humans and technology. Are computers the perfect tool for customized marketing? The tailoring of messages via computer technology to a person’s interests based on past purchases or... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
Entrepreneur Russell Wilcox (AB 1989, MBA 1995) envisions creating clean energy from the world’s stockpiles of nuclear waste at a price cheaper than coal. He is building Transatomic Power, a startup based on innovative MIT technology that... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
Professor Rob Howe has been thinking about the intersection between business and technology for a number of years now. Before joining the SEAS faculty at Harvard (where he focuses on robot and human... View Details
- July 2013
- Case
Slicing Pie with a Razor: Ockham Technologies' Founding Agreement
By: Noam Wasserman and Yael Braid
Ockham Technologies' three founders are about to craft their founding agreement and split the equity among themselves. Uncertainty lingers over each member's future contributions, though—how is the team to devise a durable and effective split? Jim Triandiflou and Ken... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employees; Management Teams; Product Development; Technology Industry
Wasserman, Noam, and Yael Braid. "Slicing Pie with a Razor: Ockham Technologies' Founding Agreement." Harvard Business School Case 814-017, July 2013.
- February 2004 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge
By: Noam T. Wasserman
Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employees; Management Teams; Product Development; Technology Industry
Wasserman, Noam T. "Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge." Harvard Business School Case 804-129, February 2004. (Revised March 2004.)
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
cognitive lens to understanding technology trajectories across the life cycle by developing a co-evolutionary model of technological frames and technology. Applying that model to each stage of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
The 2+2 Program was unknown to me until late in my senior year as an Electrical and Computer Engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). By happenstance, a recent UT alum and friend told me about the opportunity. Up to that point, I had followed my... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
practices that will allow people to flourish - the key to organizational success. Do Lunch or Be Lunch by Howard H. Stevenson (Harvard Business School Press) According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, most of human history and much of... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
technology to deliver books to children all over the world. “I always think life is this combination of romance and practicality,” he explains. “And the romance was, maybe we can do something really big and really affirming and... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
A Vision for the Earth
science: human medicine, materials science, combustion science. There are a lot of different fields that will eventually help folks here on Earth. “But another thing that I found during my mission that was the most impactful was help to... View Details