Systems Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2004
News

Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy

will help strengthen the School’s long tradition of world-class teaching. The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, scheduled to open this fall, will augment the already established HBS system of faculty-to-faculty... View Details

Keywords: C. Roland Christensen; Chris Christensen; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

day long and would often shut off the monitors. When a Boston-area bank first tried out videoconferencing kiosks to sell financial services, customers refused to use them. The systems were located in closed booths that granted privacy but... View Details

Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail

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Zihan Lin

the hands-on, boy-stuff of the mechanical with the mission of medicine." By the time Zi entered the graduate stage of his education, he had a firm focus "on two concentrations: design methodology and medical devices." In... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

that Serafeim organized as part of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Read more about Advancing the Mission Serafeim’s interest in Apple’s approach on circular economic models led to the case study “Apple’s iPhone Revolution:... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

15 Dec 2024
News

Assets: Memory Full

When Dante Roscini (MBA 1988) arrived on campus in 1986, he and members of his class each became the de-facto owner of an IBM PC Convertible (purchase was mandatory for all incoming students). As conceived by German industrial designer Richard Sapper, the laptop-style... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; computer hardware; history; HBS memories

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

employees in a large information technology firm. These findings have implications for research on homophily, gender relations in organizations, and formal and informal organizational structure. Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Sep 2021
News

Green House

five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath house matches its neighbors in the historic area; but in its construction, the building is an innovation—and a proof of concept that could ultimately spark a home-design revolution. A Passive House is View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

Dean Clark Addresses Journalists

HBS experience. As for the “barrel,” Clark observed that HBS and other business schools can also make important contributions by studying ways to design markets more effectively, reduce conflicts of interest, and build stronger governance... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

24 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

rights to commercialize their ideas in exchange for disclosing the details of their inventions in the patent document itself. The system is designed to make information about cutting-edge technology... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

exhibits, and open-ended interactions between students in an on-line forum. The underlying design of the course's delivery system demonstrates powerful principles that have applications both in the teaching... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library

positive and created a single, dry print in sixty seconds. 1 Patent 2,435,717, Feb. 10, 1948. Polaroid Corporation Records Related to Meroe Morse, b. VII.10, f. 24. Research chemist Frederick J. Binda helped develop the pod, a critical element of the View Details

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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship Course Number 1602 Senior Lecturer John Jong-Hyun Kim Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper For a sample syllabus, click here . Career Focus This course is View Details

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Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

via LinkedIn Print Share via email Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College . The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with... View Details

01 Mar 2025
News

On The Case: The Base Factor

Managing Customers for Growth. She designed it for students who want to grow their own business, help others grow theirs, or be better able to evaluate growth trajectories as a potential investor. Ascarza developed “Madrigal: Conducting a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

10 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients

ingredient is central to the functional performance of the final product. Think Shimano gear systems on performance bicycles or Monsanto's Nutrasweet, added to Equal sweetener. 3. The final products are not well-branded themselves, either... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products

21 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 21

well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading-edge insights from some of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

concern for a wide range of constituencies—has been pushed aside and has been replaced by a technical definition of what is acceptable. So there's also no question that we need to strengthen the internal systems that guide conduct within... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

01 Jun 2022
News

Vision: Into the Breach

perform automated scans of its clients’ systems for the duration of their policies, finding and plugging security holes as they appear. With approximately 14,000 customers and 2,000 more signing up each month, the company performs roughly... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog

private-sector leaders are now widely expected to provide informed, intelligent leadership on the policy issues at the heart of this course. Career Focus The course is designed for students who aim to lead private-sector institutions of... View Details

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