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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
offerings—a suburban facsimile of an independent bookstore in a small-town business district. Amazon, too, is looking to the retailing innovations developed by independent bookstores. In November 2015, the online company View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Nov 2021
- News
New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office
School. This will include serving as a key source of new research and curriculum content on a wide range of fields, including finance, technology, marketing, accounting and control, strategy, and entrepreneurship, to develop further... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
charting new courses. My current boss, Marshall Carter: he's a constant source of new ideas.” Best business advice ever received: “Early in my career I was offered a position working for the new CEO of State Street, Bill Edgerly. It was a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet a host of consumer needs is wide View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
owned and operated by the same company, have the same IT systems, and have the same incentives for employees. Much of my research is focused on identifying the sources of this variation." She has found that problems in human-resources... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Administration, is coeditor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software and has published cases on organizations that practice crowdsourcing, including Data.gov, TopCoder, OpenIDEO, Google, Threadless,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
navigate your company’s complex political environment); and manage a team (forge a high-performing “we” out of all the “I”s who report to you). The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development by... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
world to move on from its modern energy sources the way that it once moved on from whale oil. Entrepreneurs like Bezos and Musk, whom I admire for their creativity and initiative, want to profit from launching satellites and providing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
arm might lift a barbell.” The 229 RCs who signed up for lunch roulette were connected with three perfectly randomized HBS classmates. Hosted by the Student Association and the Digital Initiative, the project used an open View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
of the country’s residents—downloaded on their phones. Shortly after, the government announced plans to open source the app’s code, and more than 50 governments expressed interest in using TraceTogether in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
product that they know will resonate. Photo courtesy of Eric Grosse Photo courtesy of Eric Grosse “Starting a new company is the ultimate test of passion, determination, and persistence. Passion is an especially important energy source to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
an innovation in the MBA curriculum that gives students an opportunity to test their entrepreneurial chops. FIELD 3 is part of a larger effort by the School to set the pace in a field it has helped define. The Arthur Rock Center for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
writes, “is a car stuck in a rut: Managers put the pedal to the metal and dig the rut deeper.” In Revival of the Fittest, he offers managers the tools and frameworks they need to get their organizations rolling once again. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
award underlines the fact that our technology is capable of enormous positive economic and environmental impact,” says Giler, whose entrepreneurial spirit extends to other areas of interest. He is the cofounder of Scratch Wireless, which is developing the nation’s... View Details
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
i-lab Buzz
Approaching the i-lab on the walkway from Aldrich and Spangler. A kitchen lounge and video gaming area. There’s a small army of workers putting the finishing touches on the Harvard Innovation Lab, which will soon welcome MBA students... View Details
- 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