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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Argus Systems accelerates AI model development for physical AI. Atlas Reese Dorrepaal (MBA 2025), Meredith Rintoul (MBA 2025) Atlas is an AI-powered... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
latter to price lower and thereby increase total consumer traffic. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-010.pdf Exclusivity and Control Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Abstract We analyze platform competition for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
"Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to publish a lot of books; that you need a production system with more than one author; and that you need to mind the brand." The case also highlights the spread of... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
vote on Election Day in every precinct.Paid television advertising, the air war, can give a candidate broad coverage and control of the message but is expensive. Similarly, the ground war requires an expensive investment in personnel.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of Industrial... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
create fertile soil for dynamic capabilities. The five micromechanisms are values-based decision heuristics; intrinsic motivation with positive emotions; an organizational control system based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
if you are in control of the information you share.” What have been the best and most challenging parts of launching your company? “The most challenging and best parts are the same—building a company is hard, so the learning curve is... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
recorded information including the asking price of the rental, the characteristics of the apartment or room, and the average rating each host had received. (The site's structured rating system lets guests rate the hosts and properties on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
fact, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist was known to be in touch with Indian Maoist groups. In addition, because my primary field of research is political economy, I'm studying interactions between politicians and bureaucrats in India.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
consumers make complementary choices in purchase decisions (e.g., chips and salsa), product inter-operabilities (smartphones and networks), and dynamic decisions (current exercise and future healthcare consumption). Multiple consumers make complementary choices when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
Northern California, took place at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame. In his introduction, Sean W. Jacobsohn (MBA '98) noted, "Siebel Systems was founded in 1993 with no venture capital and needed only $1.8 million in revenues to attain... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
interactions with each other are at the heart of this education.” Among the changes that Shad General Manager Sue LaRose has seen during re-opening is the appointment system for the facility and the tennis... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
but eventually add up to real trouble. "In complex services like health care, there are many opportunities for systems to fail because of the multiple interactions and hand-offs between people of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
program participated in an intensive summer seminar on systems engineering before beginning their first-year studies in the MBA Program. HBX Course Development Stretches and Energizes Faculty In developing new Leadership courses for the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
2009, the company embarked on a journey to build "One-Firm" with a unifying culture and governance system across business groups. IDFC aimed to provide seamless access to products and expertise across business groups, increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
bit wider for the implementation of systems designed to enable our behaviors as consumers to be tracked even more fully? What do you think? Original Article In the past several years, significant fears have been expressed concerning the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
regulatory standpoint that might be expected to be sufficiently confusing or nerve-inducing that they then don't do this. And yet, I think [the FDA] should set up a system around these types of communications, so that following the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
convenience items, including DVD rentals. By 2005, McDonald’s had allowed Kaplan to spin off Redbox and seek outside investors for the business (which came to focus exclusively on DVD rentals); in 2009, McDonald’s sold its share to Coinstar, an early investor that now... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
desired occupational identity. This practice produces an engaging form of control that relies on management's selective allocation of identity incentives. These findings document a previously overlooked type of control: one reliant on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace