high technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

addresses this shortfall as part of a larger research agenda investigating how companies manage to succeed in this particular arena. Verganti coauthored the article with Claudio Dell'Era, his colleague at Italy's Politecnico di Milano. "Researchers have been... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

pension plan but want to go out and do something exciting," said Saluja. "The core businesses themselves are bleeding the talent out at a pretty high rate. "Almost everybody is looking at how do you really get something... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

10 Apr 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

hydroponic system helps farmers maximize nutritional value from limited land resources, while solar-powered spraying drones save time, water, and pesticide use on small farms. The drone is an example of financially sustainable solutions, as community groups pool... View Details

20 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

post-treatment, undermining the benefits of advanced facilities. Energy Intensity: High energy consumption in sewage treatment facilities raises costs and environmental impacts, highlighting the need for renewable energy integration.... View Details

01 Jan 2007
News

Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

market share. In all her endeavors, Dubinsky has compiled an extraordinary record by introducing practical applications of cutting-edge technology into our daily lives. Growing up in a small town in Michigan, Donna Dubinsky had her first... View Details

18 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

orphaned oil fields). These changes necessarily affect the way the industry thinks about diversifying its portfolio in the future and encourages one of the largest contributors to GHG to innovate in climate technology to survive (e.g.,... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan Thomas J. Watson The runner-up... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

one with fewer answers? Those were the questions implied by this month's column. The predominance of responses suggested that the answers to the questions are "yes, yes, and maybe." Adam Hartung commented that "As View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

technology is now also used for assigning children to New York City high schools and to Boston schools at all levels. And many professional organizations, and universities and business schools, try to help... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

I was 14. It was a completely foreign world from working-class Detroit where I grew up, and it was terrifying. In my first job out of business school, my boss affectionately nicknamed me “Pitbull” because I had a very high hit rate in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

22 Jul 2021
News

Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

the textile industry brings wealth to the local economies. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce technologies and new businesses to these markets so they will be able to adopt sustainable practices.” In addition to Mansukhani and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Web

Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

and 1,004 students receiving their MBA degrees. Fifty-three students earned their diplomas with high distinction and were named Baker Scholars. Eighty-seven students earned their diplomas with distinction, and 205 earned second-year... View Details

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

simply refuse to offer their goods in an unbundled form online by avoiding retailers like iTunes that, with few exceptions, require that songs be made available separately. The band AC/DC has followed that strategy for years, and some insiders attribute its View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

have those high days rather than a lot of middle days—that's why I didn't go back to corporate America." . . . One of the most ambitious current experiments in "knowing" and "being known" has taken shape recently... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

Web

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

programs, connecting with many, many, many more learners than we have before. A third would be around what’s happening in the world today with digitization and technology going at a very fast pace. Artificial intelligence, internet of... View Details

21 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

equilibrium, belief in the "American dream" is commonplace, workers exert effort, there are high powered contracts (and income is unequally distributed) and punishments are harsh. Economists who believe that deterrence (rather... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the largest bubbles, the reasons why bubbles collapse, and the frequency with which they occur. The model also predicts that bubbles will be accompanied by View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

technologically advanced has led to sweeping sets of executive orders and institutional changes, especially in the US. Businesses need to understand that the policy tools in the US—including export controls, investment reviews, entity... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

April 4, 2019 Palgrave Macmillan Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity By: Mills, Karen G. Abstract—Fintech, Small Business & the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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