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01 Sep 2010
News

Leslie Gold

attention until things fall apart. And they’ve gotten older: They don’t worry so much about their own sex lives, they worry about their daughters’. You’ve developed a new communications technology. What’s it all about? It’s talk-back TV.... View Details

Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

proceeds go toward the club’s high-impact programs, including pro-bono consulting through Community Partners, workforce development through the Skills Gap Initiative, entrepreneurship through the regional Alumni New Venture Competition... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Apr 2014
News

Working to improve California's public education system

communities survive that they never unite. So our idea is to have an authentic voice in Sacramento whose only special interest is students. “I think my experience at HBS—and to be quite frank, just the degree—has given me more confidence... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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Starting Lineup: Power Plays

Grana (MBA 2009) and Paul Gibbs (MBA 2011); Founded 2011 Its HelioScope software simplifies design and sales for solar systems—an energy source whose US installations doubled between 2015 and 2016. The software produced by the San... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

world through television and print publications, as they had for decades. There was, however, one big media game changer: the Fox News Channel (FNC). Founded in 1996 by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch, FNC was an unusual newcomer to the US media. While most... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint

“Yeah, you guys are not very competitive in Hong Kong anymore.” After consulting the family and Victor, who was still teaching at Harvard Business School, we decided to follow the business and set up in Taiwan. And I remember distinctly, six months after we View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

November 2024
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AlphaGo (C): Birth of a New Intelligence

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

This case, the final of a three-part series, explores DeepMind's pivotal transition from mastering games to solving real-world scientific challenges. In December 2020, DeepMind's AI system AlphaFold 2 achieved a breakthrough by solving protein folding—a 50-year-old... View Details

Keywords: Autonomy; Deep Learning; Drug Discovery; Healthcare Innovation; Neural Networks; Scientific Research; Technology Startup; AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Business Model; Business Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Technology Industry; United States

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16 Oct 2013
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Progress Through Preservation

beekeeper in Bogotá, Colombia, before moving the operation to his California backyard), serve as a bit of occupational therapy. "There's nothing that takes your mind off of work more quickly than standing in front of an open hive of... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; Real Estate

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

me graduating with a specialization in computing. In my senior year, I picked up a job at a small business selling open source services. This combination of baseline coding skills and View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)

what you pay. “Before we opened the first Panera Cares in Clayton, Missouri, in 2010, we’d focused on food-insecurity issues and given away hundreds of millions of dollars in product and donations,” says Shaich, founder, chairman, and CEO... View Details

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

their health and education programs. Goodwin’s days as a global citizen began in the air force. In his early years as a second lieutenant, during the mid-1990s, he worked in foreign military sales in Saudi Arabia, then in Colombia setting up radar and View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

benefits and vendor strategies. Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology under Network Effects Authors:Deishin Lee and Haim Mendelson Periodical:Production and Operations Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We study how a commercial firm competes with a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2016
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Delivering Trust

and Jake are well aware of the stigma surrounding fertility issues in an era of “picture-perfect” social media identities. Creating a community where people can share their experiences while improving the outcome for themselves and others... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

July 2006 (Revised August 2007)
Case

The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A)

Explores the Mozilla Foundation's decisions leading up to the launch of Firefox 1.0, including its default browser, managing corporate partnerships, managing product development, and moving toward a revenue-based model. Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Commercialization; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Social Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; United States

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24 Apr 2014
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Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact

of hundreds of managers around the world, Amabile found “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation. Her book, The Progress Principle, details the research and addresses important questions about how our inner... View Details

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

restructuring. Gilson's case studies have been used extensively in executive programs and are perfect tools to refer to when faced with real-world corporate restructuring issues. The Co-Mingled Code: Open View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2000
News

Porter's Paradox

during the past decade. "Absolutely," Porter replied. "It's a very interesting paradox. In a global economy where it's easy to move goods and information around the world, these things become givens available to any enterprise. As a result, they are no longer a View Details

12 May 2016
News

Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

food-education spaces and food-business incubators, Duda has combined his MBA with the lessons he learned in restaurants. He’s also actively involved with the resurrection of the Redland Farm Life School, near Miami. When it opened in... View Details

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Africa: research, news, analysis

useful Factiva search commands include hlp and atleast. eg.,: hlp=africa and atleast3 consumers. Select particular publications by region, industry or type: Open "Source" arrow and then... View Details

26 Jan 2015
News

Seizing opportunities as they come

Being open to possibilities has given Marne Levine (MBA 2005) the chance to work for the president of Harvard, in the Obama administration, and as Facebook’s VP of global public policy. (Published January 2015) View Details

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