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- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
information…(but) the problem is at the end of the day, the user wants an answer—he doesn't want more and more of them." Herve Gellaire, chief technology officer of Xerox and president of Xerox... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
I’d get to experience all of that. In my first week, I participated in a meeting with an entrepreneur pitching their startup. By the end of the week, the Underscore team decided to invest, and I was charged with quarterbacking the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
the job to be done, you have to organize in a very different way than if you're just selling furniture. And hence, a company that is selling sub-par furniture to the low end of humanity, people we call college students. Nobody can copy... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
they were driving on personal time, when they were truly on Uber time. And that's a problem if these so-called personal claims increase the overall number of insurance claims for noncommercial vehicles in any given year. “If these drivers... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
revenue growth; because, if you do business with the "wrong" visionaries, they'll lead you away from the very pragmatists you will need to turn a high-potential venture into a high-performance venture. It's very important not to think about adoption as either... View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
recognized." 33 A dreamer and inventor himself, Land realized researchers needed time to solve problems in an environment without distractions: "I think the important and nearly impossible projects such as we set for our goal require... View Details
- Web
Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
equipment for US soldiers. He argued, "[T]here is a complete lack of understanding of the problems of human beings and the problem of making a human being a good fighting person." 26 "Doriot undertook to... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
investment banking--give their points of view. Joseph Bower, Baker Foundation Professor The GM IPO represents the beginning of the end of a remarkable piece of intervention by the Obama administration. The government's involvement in the... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
nature, and extent of the resulting book-tax difference; and the policy reasons for continuing or ending the stock option book-tax difference. Here is Desai's summary statement to the subcommittee with a link to his full testimony.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- Web
Commencement 2012 Address | About
meaningful career, but to do so in a way that leads to a happy and meaningful life. Today I’d like to offer some ideas for creating a meaningful life in the context of our School’s mission, which is to become leaders who will make a... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
food, medicine, or cosmetics you use. Consumers would end up restricting what they buy to a few trusted brands. In effect, the FDA has made competition possible in consumer products and even in pharmaceuticals (particularly through the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Working PapersFemale Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines Authors:Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin Abstract Female 'empowerment' has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
him, he and his research team ended up with enough material for a three-part case. Part A opens in June 2007, when the newly appointed Carroll faced a spate of fatalities at the Rustenburg mines. (Anglo American Platinum, which runs the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
organization—taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, which include attention to detail, highly focused concentration, perseverance with repetitive tasks, pattern recognition, problem solving, and honesty. These... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
shareholders' meeting in 2004 in Leipzig. While rival carmakers such as Ferrari, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, and Lamborghini have been happy to locate where labor costs are cheaper, Porsche wanted to ensure its "Made in Germany"... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
how research can benefit from cross-University collaboration." While Bazerman thinks that overt bias against individuals or groups is less of a problem than it was a couple of decades ago, "that does not mean we've solved View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Abstract—This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers. I define relevant research papers as those whose research questions address problems found... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne