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12 Jun 2020
News

What Blockchain Could Mean for Your Health Data

24 Apr 2014
News

A wild ride from adventure travel to social media marketing

business world took social networking seriously, she cofounded Wildfire—all while pursuing her MBA at HBS. The company grew from six to 400 employees in two-and-a-half years. Ransom’s idea quickly changed how companies use social media to... View Details

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

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

01 Jun 2016
News

Up by the Roots

handle the rockier, less sandy soils of Wisconsin—yet has to fit under the 8-foot-high shade cloth that ginseng depends on. “We’ve started using a lot more technology to reduce the dependence on farm labor,” Hsu says, “but you can only do... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

December 2003 (Revised October 2005)
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High-Definition TV: The Grand Alliance

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Describes political and economic forces that influenced the development of an all-digital, high-definition television (HDTV) standard in the United States between 1986 and 1996. Outlines the stakes for various government and industry participants in the... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Emerging Markets; Standards; Business and Government Relations; Networks; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; Europe; United States

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early proponent of automated technology that Wal-Mart has utilized to develop one of the most sophisticated distribution networks in the industry. Under his leadership, Wal-Mart became the largest retailer... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Career Coach

Suzie Rubin

goals. Suzie helps students to effectively sell themselves on paper, while networking and in interviews. She offers assistance navigating campus recruiting and conducting independent, self-directed job searches. Suzie has a specific... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

01 Mar 2005
News

Changing Lives One Computer at a Time

TECH KNOW-HOW: student Angelica Lopez with Jackie Adams (MBA '78) and Edward Olebe (MBA '99). Photo Courtesy HBS Club of Greater New York The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has joined forces with Dell to put computers into the hands of promising young... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

August 2004 (Revised August 2005)
Background Note

Online Auction Markets

eBay, Yahoo!, and Amazon.com entered the online auction market within four years of one another, along with a host of smaller Web sites. Five years later, eBay clearly outstripped its competitors, despite the fact that Yahoo! and Amazon both had a huge installed base... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Auctions; Network Effects

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01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

there was a lot more experimentation earlier, in terms of letting people be at home, but now you can see more large establishments requiring folks to come back. I’ve been talking to the largest technology firms about this: They’ve created... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

if we had been more alert. Fortunately, the benefits gained from confronting the problem will outweigh the pain. What benefits do you foresee? We're learning lessons that will change future behavior. Some of us are finally understanding not only how reliant we are on... View Details

15 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

was achieved by these three countries. In Mexico, a strong and dense network replaced for some of the institutions that promoted financial development and growth in Brazil. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
News

Think Locally, Act Globally

In 1992, after reforms by India’s government improved the country’s business climate, he formed a consortium that included SFR-France, Emtel-Mauritius, and MSI-UK and bid successfully for one of four mobile-phone network licenses... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

01 Dec 2013
News

14 for '14

author detailing his current four-year journey through all 54 African countries at Africa54.com "Consumers will acquire a greater appreciation of targeted, personal marketing. A growing number of advertisers will embrace online marketing View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Government; Information; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2004
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The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead

2f1f4a24430fe040f37c6d7564258142 Viewers love The Weather Channel, giving its president and CEO, Bill Burke (MBA ’92), an enviable edge over many of his counterparts in the notoriously fickle business of cable network programming. On... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

information technology as being subject to fashion, but the same thing happens, the network effect. This is important when we start talking about B2B hubs." The third characteristic is differentiated... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

24 Feb 2016
News

Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

and remarkably prescient.” Now 89, Alden is again in the PRT—personal rapid transit—business: ”After decades away from PRT, he reunited with a group of other transportation experts to build a new system called Airport Personal Transport, a tiny self-driving car View Details

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

friends and acquaintances and reconnect with faces from the past. First college students, then Millennials, and soon after, their parents and grandparents were drawn in by the allure of this pioneering social network that effectively... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

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