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13 Jan 2021
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alumni are motivated to face the challenges that climate change presents and develop innovative solutions. We regularly share relevant cases and research on climate change to keep our alumni informed of the latest trends in the field.... View Details

15 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)

more, each unique to their own situation. I decided to become a Certified Financial Planner to improve my ability to advise on these additional areas. That choice began steering me toward a new direction with a clear focus. I noticed a View Details

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

their children, plan social interactions, be alerted to pertinent products and services, and accelerate the value of a person's connections. Two trends will lead to this outcome. First, people are already sharing private information... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

venture, such as long-haul ships for Columbus or the Internet and telecom infrastructure for Skype. During his research and course development, Kerr focused on three key pieces for LGV cases: identifying case examples of larger trends and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

be a general trend among countries and the international community at large to strengthen IPR. If this trend keeps advancing, what will be the result on technology transfer? Who will be the big winners? And... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

phone or laptop during halftime or commercials. That trend has advertisers, who paid an average of $4 million per 30-second Super Bowl spot last year, worried. "Advertisers are paying based on the audience watching a program,"... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

July 1991 (Revised September 1995)
Case

Eastman Kodak Co.: Managing Information Systems Through Strategic Alliances

By: Lynda M. Applegate

In January 1988, Colby Chandler, Kodak CEO, created the Corporate Information Systems (CIS) and appointed Katherine Hudson head. She at once became the first head of IT and first woman corporate vice president in the company. Throughout 1989, Hudson inaugurated a... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Organizational Structure; Success; Trends; Information Management; Service Operations; Manufacturing Industry

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16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

in a unified European market with the introduction of the Euro. This new landscape offers new business opportunities and possibilities to write cases that show very multicultural environments fairly unique to Europe. Parallel to that View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

28 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

What Can We Expect in the Other War?

The first is: Are these transitory feelings that may fade in intensity with progress in the war on terrorism? Let's assume instead that what we may experience is an intensification of trends in personal lifestyles already noticeable prior... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Humbulani Dombo

Humbulani's father is a doctor, her sister is a doctor, her mother is a medical technologist. "Having grown up in that environment," she says, "I wanted to buck the trend a little bit. Business seemed broad, a way to... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

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Collecting Strategy | Baker Library

Collecting Strategy Digital Equipment Corporation catalog, 1968-1969. Kenneth H. Olsen collection. Special Collections & Archives is vigorously building its archival and historical collections to support emerging trends in contemporary... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

into a New England institution and one of the leading consumer banks in the nation. Responding to demographic trends and consumer demands in the mid-1970s, Crozier moved quickly to launch a ubiquitous network of automated teller machines... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers

provide the diversity of employees that most leading businesses now recognize they need to be globally competitive. There are two trends in the United States that should be of interest to the business world. First, there is an increase in... View Details

Keywords: Amy McIntosh (MBA 1984) , associate vice chancellor for academic strategy, The City University of New York

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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

unconventional energy? Early research identified PK-12 education, middle skills, and transportation infrastructure as a significant weakness or deteriorating strength for the U.S. Understanding each can help us to explain one of the most troubling View Details

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Teaching Resources - Business History

from the past as they build their future careers. Historical Data Visualization The Historical Data Visualization project provides geographic maps of historical data on broad economic, social and political trends both globally and within... View Details

25 Apr 2016
News

Just Rewards

workforce, streamlined operations, and grown business. At Greggs, his policy of putting employees first was initially criticized by shareholders, but the approach yielded positive results for all and illustrated the benefits of investing in workers. Darrington also... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising

Public Health) found that the agreement has had little effect. In their article in the New England Journal of Medicine last August, King and Siegel analyzed trends in expenditures for advertising between 1995 and 2000 by examining fifteen... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

entrepreneurialism to preserve a community logic of banking and maintain local control banking infrastructures. We discuss how our study contributes to the emerging synthesis of ecological and institutional perspectives, entrepreneurship, and our understanding of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Grushka-Cockayne Abstract—We introduce an exponential smoothing model that a manager can use to forecast the demand of a new product or service. The model has five features that make it suitable for accurately forecasting product life cycles at scale. First, the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

the people who use them. In this area researchers are studying such topics as how manufacturers can best work with users, the organizational strains such relationships create, and the role of "lead users" in identifying important View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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