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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
ranging from minor modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a package we call a "tool kit for customer innovation," deploy new technologies like computer simulation and rapid... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
of tech upgrade the world food system needs given our increasingly insecure ecosystem, says Sonia Lo (MBA 1994), CEO of Crop One Holdings, which owns and operates the FreshBox brand. Sitting in FreshBox’s makeshift conference room—a long table, chairs, and a monitor,... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
commit to any single venture. “In my heart, I knew that I had to spread myself around a little bit more,” he recalls. The venture capital industry made that possible. In those first few years, he bummed an office from Technology Venture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
concentrated market structure and the high profits of the firms that would be among the several operating there, I think it's not surprising that we should see investments into already successful companies rather than new firms setting up... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Baker Library Strategic Plan, 2024-2025 | Baker Library
understanding towards one another. We communicate openly, transparently, and respectfully to advance our connections with our community. Pursuing Excellence We hold high expectations of ourselves and our work. We are user-centered and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
explains. His creation has drawn praise from environmentally concerned leaders such as Al Gore and John Kerry. On a trip back home, Yarlagadda says he saw a villager using his lantern as a headlight for a bullock cart. “Seeing people use my View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute For Finding The Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
tech for sustainability, and I've been passionate about transportation since my Army days." "And I wanted a general management role," James says. "It got to the point where I would be a general manager, come hell or View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
tacit knowledge flows. These knowledge flows, in turn, contribute to cumulative incremental innovations in both product and process technology among firms embedded in the cluster. I use the term 'active inertia' to describe the tendency... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
publishers and retailers to social networks and gaming sites. Job growth on the Internet stands in sharp contrast to the US economy as a whole, which has suffered from high unemployment for years. The report found that the gross domestic... View Details
- Profile
Paul Lenehan
In high school, Paul Lenehan was impressed by the way economics "explained events behind the news. It gave me a lens for understanding how the world works." An attraction to business plans led to an interest in consulting.... View Details
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
global rather than merely local. The issue of limited resources and inefficient distribution is creating environmental and social problems respectively, that businesses can no longer afford to neglect/be indifferent to. Technological... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
parlor, as an early source of entrepreneurial influence. Her advice? “Do for yourself. Do for your people. Provide a quality product.” Cyberposium Building Leaders for Technology January 17–19, 2003 Sponsor: HBS View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
HBX CORe, a three-course online program that teaches the fundamentals of business, he knew his children would benefit from the content and the high quality of instruction that had set the foundation for his own career success. Ray... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
opportunity. This is particularly interesting as prior research in the finance literature has shown that firms will overinvest in high quality projects when investors have imperfect information about the quality of the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
cleverest of the stock splitters, as it recognized that a high post-split stock price would allow the firm to complete stock financed acquisitions. As long as investors in the target company were willing to accept overpriced Livedoor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
marketplaces are often “winner take all,” and Nomad is not alone in pursuing a technological fix to health care staffing; delaying expansion risks ceding ground to new competitors. Which path should the company take? The Answers: Having... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
career in the technology industry where he has directed financial strategies and decisions resulting in more than $45 billion in contracts. Determination, ambition, and resilience are the key drivers to his incredible journey. The Atlanta... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
7-Eleven? ” says Rothrock. “Of course they do. But we make the penalties harsh. We make the capability to catch them high so that they think twice about it, and that’s what we’ve got to do with cyber.” But Rothrock is certain that we’ll... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
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Departments | Employment
working in Information Technology Customer Base Faculty, Staff and Students Culture Within Harvard University, the HBS IT is the largest IT department on campus. Virtually every project within IT is team based. The department consists of... View Details