Versioning - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

in selling upgraded versions of its products to customers eager for more features. But beyond that, said Glaser, "the business environment has changed completely, since the capital markets no longer subsidize a free ride for... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

established financial intermediary -- at a bank , insurance company , or payments company -- this course is highly relevant for obvious reasons. Relatively few HBS students will start out working in these types of firms – particularly the more mature View Details

14 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

Exercises Harvard Business School Exercise 208-045 Introduces students to simple forms and solution techniques for real options found in corporate settings. Revised versions of problems appearing in an older problem set (293-095). The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

Carolina uses Internet2 for nano-research: building material from the atomic level up. Other forums on the horizon for Internet2 include digital libraries and digital video. A DVD version of the Hollywood movie The Matrix, for example,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library

almanac is over 600 pages of Arab contributions to world civilizations, of Arab American organizations, of prominent Arab Americans in major fields, and much more. The 6th and final published version of the almanac can be viewed via... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

data, Kimble says: “We need to justify the higher prices of our drugs, and we need to do a better job of helping hospitals understand that by using a more extensive antibiotic up front compared to the older generic version that has some... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

23 May 2019
News

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

to be the best version of themselves. Indeed, Rodríguez’s colleagues at Gentera—a financial services firm focused on underserved communities—can’t imagine running the firm without his involvement. Working in various capacities over the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2008
News

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”

the HBS Electronic Network? Alumni subscribers to it received an AOL e-mail address and could access the alumni directory, career services, Bulletin articles, and class notes, etc. — a rudimentary version of the HBS Web site. But by April... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

bleeding hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs a year." “They’re literally bleeding hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs a year,” Kominers explains. A synthetic version of the chemical has recently become available, but has never... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

tomorrow's version of this technique will be based on the analysis of massive files of individual profiles, from which predictions will be built that establish stock levels needed to support 30-minute deliveries. Personalized logistics... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

creating "a modern version of alchemy," turning packages of poorly-rated mortgages into triple-A-rated collateral debt obligations, complete with supposed insurance against risk. The problem was that even financial experts... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

as it is being employed to unite dispersed functional or geographic groups within a firm. While automatic process execution continues to be valuable for these networks, the greater goal of integration often appears to be better and faster decision making. For example,... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Dávila, now on the faculty of Stanford Business School. Some thirty case studies are also available in a version of the book geared toward students as well as managers who want to tap more extensively into examples of best practice. Q:... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

26 Oct 2017
News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

as all of the equipment necessary to do this, but aren’t able to buy additional land,” says Wiviott. “We’re the first scalable version of this model, meaning that because it’s bigtime American agriculture we can do a series of these $100... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

company, such as marketing, communications, or consumer behavior specialists, to help design a code that will be understandable to employees. Uber, for example, rolled out a mobile app-focused version of its ethics code to better serve... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

adhering to five design principles. The success of several new products illustrates how. One is the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a low-cost wheelchair that can navigate rugged terrain in places with poor infrastructure; a modified version is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Black History Month | Baker Library

how Black entrepreneurs made impactful contributions to their industries through creativity and determination. You can download a PDF version of select "Making It" content from the 1970 and 1971 issues. "'We've got to be successful so... View Details

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Field Course: Field X - Course Catalog

different) version at the end of the course. On the final day of class, students who wish to will have the opportunity to present their businesses to an audience of angel, seed and venture investors at our Pitch Day event. At our most... View Details

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

simply versions of earlier markets that are now mature. I think what is almost always true of emerging markets is that there are islands of modernity where emerging markets are way ahead, and then there are islands where they are clearly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

free, bundled version of Hyper-V, an advanced virtualization platform product. Looming over the impending competition between these two companies was the story of the "browser wars," in which Microsoft overwhelmed browser maker... View Details