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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
that automates the customs brokerage process end-to-end to improve the efficiency of logistics companies. Kykloris Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025) Kykloris installs modular systems in industrial seafood processing facilities, converting waste into... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
transparency and weak governance in resource rich countries. However, we document that industry self-regulation has generated information to substitute for the gap in voluntary company disclosure. We also find some evidence that these... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others just as dissimilar, maybe even... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- January 2009
- Teaching Note
VMWare Inc., 2008 (TN)
By: Andrei Hagiu
Teaching Note for [709435]. View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
data are often voluminous and unstructured, presenting analytical challenges for traditional tools that were designed for well-structured, quantitative data. We adapt methods from natural language processing and machine learning to illustrate how the hotel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
coaches to fledgling enterprises) and wondered if a similar phenomenon were taking place in Asia. “We looked at industries from timber to Internet software and found that there is a real difference between... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
of household chores because I couldn’t see.” By his junior year at Purdue, where he studied industrial engineering, his vision loss was complete, and Gibbons finally needed a cane to get around and readers to help with his studies.... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
the draw anymore. By conducting a series of diagnostics, companies in any industry can quickly identify the most promising opportunities. This article shows how to conduct customer, portfolio, and competitor diagnostics to pinpoint the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
Chicago. About this program When most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black. But going blind in his early 20’s didn’t stop him from living. Becoming an avid coder, he built View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where firms and industries may... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
context in which we’ll apply it, AR increases our ability to absorb and act on it. AR will become the new interface between humans and machines, say Michael E. Porter of Harvard and James E. Heppelmann, the CEO of the industrial View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
invests significant resources in software such as Java and Linux that IBM does not own in order to integrate many companies' products and services for IBM's customers. Intel invests significant resources in university research (which it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- March 2005
- Background Note
Home Video Games: Generation Seven
By: Elie Ofek
Discusses the issues facing firms in the seventh generation of home video game platforms. In particular, Sony and Microsoft plan to launch new game consoles in the 2005 to 2006 time frame. Each firm seems to be following a different strategy. Microsoft wants to launch... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Ofek, Elie. "Home Video Games: Generation Seven." Harvard Business School Background Note 505-072, March 2005.
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Inc., the world's largest design software company, decided to engage in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for the design and construction of its new Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Solutions (AECS) Group headquarters near... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
industries and headquartered in 45 countries during the years 2004 to 2007. Results show that firms that are more environmentally damaging, particularly those in countries where they are more exposed to scrutiny and global norms, are less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2018 (Revised May 2019)
- Teaching Note
Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs
By: Joseph Fuller, Shikhar Ghosh and Monica Baraldi
Teaching Note for HBS No. 816-048. The case tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business units—professional tax software, sold to accountants, and the consumer focused... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
pace of change in many markets accelerates and as some industries move toward serving "markets of one," the cost of understanding and responding to customers' needs can easily spiral out of control. In the course of studying... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
on? Are they concentrated in a specific industry or business type? A: Inventors can file for patents in many technology fields, ranging from chemicals and drugs to computer software to agricultural... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace