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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
Economy, A Global Perspective," HBS professor Michael E. Porter observed that, contrary to classic theory, "in developing countries, getting capital these days is not the problem; it's organizing society so that competition rules." Esther... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
"Capital overhang is a big issue that keeps coming up over and over again," said Fergal J. Mullen, a general partner at Highland Capital Partners who focuses on software and services companies. Mullen said he looks for companies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
Singapore’s government, raced to create a technology that would supplement Singapore’s manual contact-tracing efforts. Over the course of eight weeks, the software developers went from “what if?” to a fully... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
connecting members. Leaders Need to Show Their (Re)commitment Launch sessions are also an opportunity for leaders to reinforce their commitment to the team. Consider Jennifer Reimert, the leader of a consulting team at Workhuman, a company that View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
"data-driven decision style" (David Cawlfield), the development of "early warning indicators" combined with an "external interference mechanism" (Gopal Padinjaruveetil), scenario planning of the type... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business innovation, HBS professor Clayton Christensen has written a new book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In... View Details
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
hopes? “If you're trying to make new connections and learn from the other people, I wouldn't bring your posse.” To find out, Koning and Hasan invited 112 aspiring entrepreneurs to a three-week software View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://hbr.org/search/114007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-011 TaKaDu In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli startup had View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
competition from multinationals leads to factor reallocation and the survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We develop a model that incorporates both aspects and quantify their relative importance in the gains from... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his colleagues developed a networked client-server computer... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
copy ads from Google to a competing vendor. Consider a Google advertiser that wanted to begin to advertise with Yahoo or Microsoft adCenter too. Yahoo, Microsoft, or third-party software developers could... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Exercise 408-076 Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) brought together decision makers in search of hard-to-find answers with specialized experts in nearly every imaginable field. Over time, GLG developed View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
million fund "for targeted programs, economic initiatives and community development projects." FEBRUARY 2 Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) recently donated $1 million to the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF), a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
with those chargers and make a profit off of those platforms. Going forward, we will be selling a software platform to monitor and control buildings and electric vehicles.” For now, Fermata Energy is focusing on EV fleets, not residential... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
in Business, Energy and Environment, held in Harvard's Innovation Lab. "It's a question of who will make money and which business models are effective." Although the definitive answer to that question remains to be seen, Henderson helped students View Details
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
for good in society. This report features a selection of stories that highlight the School’s influence and impact around the world during fiscal year 2021 (July 1, 2020–June 30, 2021). Africa Developing the Skills to Drive Change in... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
base—3,000 or 4,000 words at an intermediate level. You're not asking people to have native-like mastery in English, which hovers around 10,000 words. You're simply asking them to develop enough skill to function effectively. A language... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51321 Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance By: Olds, Gareth Abstract—I examine the relationship between public health insurance and firm formation. Developing a variant of regression... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne