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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Service with a Smile: Classmates Nick Alexander (left) and Bryan Frist with one of Yoshi’s service-on-demand vehicles. (photo by Cayce Clifford) The first purpose-built, drive-in gas station opened in Pittsburgh in December 1913. The... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would flood back to employers who... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Upon Further Review I found “Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit” in the June Bulletin to be a brief but exciting summary of the three-person panel discussion that took place at the Kennedy School of Government last March. For a while, it... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
'Well, how is health care technology actually going to help patients?' And they're still struggling with that. So--no offense to every entrepreneur who's sitting out there thinking this is a wide-open field--yes, it's a wide-open field, but it's totally... View Details
- February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Uniswap: Fighting a Vampire Attack (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Shweta Bagai and Liang Wu
This is the first of a three-case series that explores the challenges faced by Uniswap, a key player in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. Founded by Hayden Adams, the case traces Uniswap's rapid growth from a simple idea inspired by a Reddit post to becoming one... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Crypto Economy; Community; Decentralization; Decentralized Exchange; Decentralized Finance; Open Platforms; Open-source Innovation; Market Distruption; Stablecoin; Vampire Attack; Web3; Token; Digital Platforms; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Technological Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Financial Liquidity; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, Shweta Bagai, and Liang Wu. "Uniswap: Fighting a Vampire Attack (A)." Harvard Business School Case 824-162, February 2024. (Revised April 2024.)
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
Editor's note: Even with recent disclosures about out-of-control spending on corporate perks and government agency parties, the US military is frequently held up as the exemplar of organizational largesse run wild. In the new book Defense... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
THE DIGITAL BULLETIN For a few years now, we've been asking how you like to read your Bulletin, and unsurprisingly, many of you have told us you'd love to have a tablet edition. We've listened to your comments and are excited to announce... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
infrastructure in the nation’s history, called the GI Bill, had one of the highest rates of return to the economy that the government has ever realized. The GI Bill enabled me to complete graduate studies. In addition, just six months of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
David Moss was asked to consider "what role the federal government should play, if any, in indemnifying terrorism-related risks." Moss, whose new book, When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
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Site Credits - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Executive Director, Knowledge and Library Services Laura Linard Director, Baker Library Historical Collections Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
BALLMER: Microsoft plans to remain on the cutting edge of digital media technology. If you think that the last decade produced a torrent of consumer high-tech innovation — notably personal computers, broadband Internet access, cell... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
comply with international patent law by 2005, precluding production of some of Cipla’s biggest moneymakers. With time running out, what should Hamied do? Lobbying the Indian government to exclude food and pharmaceuticals from patent laws... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Engagement Opportunities The "Case for HBS" ebook NN: We have been giving both of these questions a lot of thought, particularly since the launch of the edX/HarvardX platform more than a year ago. We've approached this at HBS not as an either-or proposition but with an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Debaters Muzzle Yale Bulldog
In November, in the friendly confines of Spangler Auditorium, the HBS debate team talked circles around a visiting contingent from the Yale School of Management and won a 2–1 decision. As reported by the Harbus, the motion up for debate was, “This House believes that... View Details
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Site Credits - The Art of American Advertising
Moreland, Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Boston Photo Imaging Imaging Services, The Harvard College Library PRINTING: Ram Printing, Inc. Advanced Imaging, Inc. Debra Wallace Executive... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg take a systemic approach to healthcare reform. Today's system is dysfunctional, they argue, rewarding participants who redirect costs and restrict View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
in the world of digital communications will lie not in knowing how to engineer big technological breakthroughs but in how to develop products and services by creatively combining new and existing... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
services produced. (GameStop, for example, is up more than 900 percent YTD.) “That means, in the medium to long term, these stocks are likely to fall in value, which is not a great recipe for some of these excited, first-time investors,”... View Details