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06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? With little academic attention focused on this question, Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

08 Nov 2024
News

Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Alpha & Company and former executive at Televisa Univision; and Liz Montaño (MBA 2009), Chief Operating Officer at NJ/NY Gotham FC, a National... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the Chief Financial Officer After a year and a half of disruption caused by the global pandemic, fiscal 2022 was a year of renewal and growth for Harvard Business School.... View Details

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Harvard Business School (HBS) Online offers a unique and highly engaging way to learn vital business concepts. Our online certificate and credential programs are offered via our innovative online View Details

04 Aug 2021
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Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

While managers feared that all the top talent would leave, instead Recruit grew to become a $20 billion tech company (roughly the equivalent of Salesforce) that employs 50,000 people globally. They have created a suite of products including View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

platform that enables you to leverage your resources by drawing on the independent activities of large numbers of individuals and enterprises that may not be known to you at all." Many of the conference's other sessions - even when... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners,... View Details

July 2024
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Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

the School a "living model of the highest standards of integrity, respect for others, and personal responsibility." Clark's intranet tour included a visit to HBS Publishing, where he scrolled through an online case; a stop at the course View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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5.1 Information Technology | MBA

including those who share the same level of access. Information gathered from the Resources, including community members' contact information, may not be redistributed in any form outside of HBS — including to businesses operated by... View Details

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business model innovation, service-level... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2012 (Revised May 2013)
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ASUSTeK and the Google Nexus 7 Tablet

By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang

Days after Jerry Shen introduced a new tablet computer at the Consumer Electronics Show, a Google meeting convinced him to go with a lower price point and co-branding as the Nexus 7. While his company would have a premier position at launch, companies like Samsung... View Details

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17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

data-driven personalization platform for fashion retailers, provided us with an aggregated dataset of online apparel sales from a variety of anonymized well-known fashion retailers in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2019 and... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2444741 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 614-058 Hospital Clínic de Barcelona No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

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Commencement 2018 Address | About

Commencement 2018 Address Play Video duration: 16:15 As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 24 May 2018 Class of 2018, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: Good afternoon and welcome. Each year, I look... View Details

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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 5 Modules, 30-35 Hours Download full syllabus 8 hrs Module 1 The Value of Brands Explore what a brand is and how it creates value for consumers. Understand why brands are among a company’s most valuable assets and evaluate... View Details

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

2021 as the co-founder and COO of Elektra Health to focus on smashing the menopause taboo. Together with my co-founder Alessandra Henderson and founding physician Dr. Anna Barbieri, an OB/GYN specializing in menopause, we began building Elektra Health as a digital... View Details

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

multi-sided platform that facilitates interactions among real-estate developers and suppliers of green-building inputs (e.g., professional services or building materials)," the paper explains. (Toffel was well acquainted with the nuances... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way

clear that if my family was going to stay in manufacturing, we would have to become globally competitive.” The Wisconsin businesses were sold in 2002, and a new company with a new strategy, Chirch Global Manufacturing (CGM), was born.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

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