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Sahlman Fall 2023 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy and General Management) Geoffrey Jones Fall 2023 Q1Q2 3.0 Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences Satish... View Details

2020
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Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation

By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat

During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to... View Details

Keywords: World War II; Vannevar Bush; OSRD; Mission-oriented R＆D; Direction Of Innovation; Geography Of Innovation; Technology Clusters; U.S. Innovation System; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges; War; History; Government Administration; United States

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Middlebury College: Energy2028

By: Brian Trelstad, Michael Norris and John McKinley

In 2018, Middlebury College’s board of trustees is considering a proposal called Energy2028 that would push the small, liberal arts and sciences college in Vermont to become a net zero carbon emitter, decrease energy usage by 25%, divest fossil fuels from its... View Details

Keywords: Divestment; Energy; Higher Education; Energy Conservation; Climate Change

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10 Mar 2022
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Adina Sterling, Stanford

31 Oct 2022
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Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

systemic racism, the findings could inform policy approaches that prevent discrimination. Tabellini wrote the paper with Mina Cikara, associate professor of psychology at Harvard University, and Vasiliki Fouka, assistant professor of political View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

School Multimedia/Video Case 425-704, April 2025. Radical Transformation at Bayer: Dynamic Shared Ownership By: Boris Groysberg and Gamze Yucaoglu April 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In 2023, Bill Anderson became CEO of Bayer AG, a 160-year-old life View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Science Act (“CHIPS”) passed a few months earlier. Her team had also proposed additional measures for the NOFO. They’d added upside sharing provisions to align incentives. They’d included funding milestones so that only awardees making... View Details

2013
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Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters

By: Walter A. Friedman

The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting And Prediction; Economic History; Economics; History; Risk and Uncertainty; United States

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How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

Business Journal, April 2015. John Doerr, Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs (Portfolio/Penguin, 2018). John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harey, Jillian Popadak, and Shivaram Rajgopal, “Corporate Culture: Evidence from... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Profiles - MBA

Find David on LinkedIn . AB Biomedical Engineering, AB Computer Science, SM Engineering Sciences QUINCY 2026 Cohort 7 Jason Cho “Imagine Reckless Miracles' is the motto of my startup, 01ab. We live in a world where technology, innovation,... View Details

06 Jul 2015
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Brain on Sports Podcast: Psychology of rooting for a losing team

18 Apr 2023
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Daron Acemoglu, MIT

04 May 2017
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Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University

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Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

01 June 2006 HBS Case Collection MassMEDIC: The Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council by Willis M. Emmons III, Michael E. Porter and Spencer Wallace 04 May 2012 HBS student project Tennessee Music Cluster by Megan Bernard, Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi, Andrea Hill,... View Details

02 May 2023
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How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

(iStockphoto/Rost-9D) Artificial intelligence (AI) is the topic of the moment in circles ranging from science to business to religion. Its potential and implications are driven home when you see robot soccer players improve their game to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology

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Scaling Up Analogical Innovation with Crowds and AI

By: Aniket Kittur, Lisa Yu, Tom Hope, Joel Chan, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Karni Gilon, Felicia Ng, Robert Kraut and Dafna Shachaf

Analogy—the ability to find and apply deep structural patterns across domains—has been fundamental to human innovation in science and technology. Today there is a growing opportunity to accelerate innovation by moving analogy out of a single person’s mind and... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Crowdsourcing; Analogy; Innovation and Invention; Technology; Science

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June 2004
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Aventis SA (A): Planning for a Merger

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Eight executives at Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc must make four crucial decisions on the eve of merging their companies to become Aventis--what would become the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm. In addition to formulating a vision and strategy, the two firms must... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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