Information Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
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Emerging Information

offices in 18 countries. The firm's main product, ISI Emerging Markets, is a continually evolving resource of information covering emerging markets in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Contracting with local View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?

"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists howled against this so-called View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing

19 Nov 2014
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Creating solutions for the oil industry

Retired high-tech entrepreneur Thomas Scambos (MBA 1954) started a company that developed additives to make oil flow more efficiently and also help deal with oil spills. (Published November 2014) View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry

at the 11th HBS Health Industry Alumni Association Conference. She joined Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter in addressing the November 4–6 event, titled “The Future of Therapy from the Leaders Who Create It.” So what’s the cure for the ailing... View Details

Keywords: pharmaceutical research; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 2001
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Books: A Nation Transformed by Information

Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and James W. Cortada (Oxford University Press) In their new book, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present, HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: Information

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

04 Aug 2021
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This Technology Will Have A Profound Effect On The Fashion Industry

29 Aug 2011
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Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

analyst reports, and trademarks. For alumni in the job market, librarians can also provide information ranging from lists of companies sorted by industry and geographic criteria to detailed data on... View Details

07 Mar 2019
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New Marketplace Survey: Patients Lack Information to Reduce the Cost of Care

01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

they'd never hired a Harvard MBA before." Initially denied an on-campus interview with Apple due to her lack of experience, Dubinsky persevered and succeeded in meeting informally with the company's recruiter. Soon afterward, she became... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

10 Apr 2019
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Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry

A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it would take to build a... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

24 Apr 2014
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Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry

hospitals, and patients were hurting athenahealth’s bottom line. Bush shifted the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and information processing, and athenahealth now provides cloud-based practice management, billing,... View Details