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Campus Vehicular Access | About
with contractors, the name of the HBS manager responsible for the system in service will appear on the pass. Passenger Vehicles Passenger vehicles (buses, taxis, vans, personal vehicles, u-haul trucks or...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
systems were retrenching; and his encouragement of faculty to compete more actively for outside grants and contracts, with growth in those areas rising annually from $175 million in 1986 to more than $500 million in 1997. But Spangler's...
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Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
The computer age began some six decades ago with general-purpose machines with Star Wars-like names such as ENIAC and EDVAC. They were powered by vacuum tubes, big enough to fill an entire room, and developed by mathematicians under the...
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- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
spread the high fixed costs of development and commercialization over their high sales volumes.” Those larger companies also may have benefitted from brand reputation, which could see customers flock to trusted names in a time of...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Robots to the Rescue
Mountz says, “I was still young and single, and I had a business problem I was passionate about. For the first couple of years I worked out of my own checkbook and slept on a lot of friends’ couches.” Kiva Systems is View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
learn more about HBS Clubs and club activities in your area, please visit www.clubhub.hbs.org/. In October, Alvin Roth, a member of the School's Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Unit and Harvard University's Department of Economics, was View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
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The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
you instantly to an anonymous chat with someone new, and you can choose to share your name or photo if you become comfortable. We think the best way to cure loneliness is to give you someone relevant to talk to at any time. And we’ve...
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Drone Policy | About
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)? Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, are aircraft without a human pilot aboard. They can be controlled autonomously via a programmed flight path...
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- 10 Aug 2015
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Creating a Pipeline of Talent to Address the World’s Challenges
Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) is founder and CEO of ProInspire, a nonprofit that develops leaders for the social sector. The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently named ProInspire, which gives paid fellowships to highly qualified professionals,...
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Ryann Noe
emphasis on interdisciplinary research. Another big draw was discovering the work of her eventual advisor, Ryan Raffaelli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “I came across his name in an article about...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
So Revelio Labs is a workforce data company. So what we’re basically doing is taking all the data that exists about employment from the public domain and trying to pull it together, enrich it, and construct it in a way where we can get...
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- 01 Apr 2020
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What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
each problem, and their corrective actions were reviewed personally by the secretary of defense. Second, to ensure that crucial items arrived when they were needed, we put together a rapid-resupply system called the Red Ball Express—a...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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What is Web3?
across multiple computers in a way that ensures security and immutability. A blockchain consists of a series of blocks, each of which contains transaction records and data. The “chain” in the name comes from the fact that each block is...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
system of Asian currency pegs that some commentators dubbed “Bretton Woods II.” In 2006 Chinese holdings of dollars almost certainly passed the trillion dollar mark. (Significantly, the net increase of China’s foreign exchange reserves...
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- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
started developing them have ceased to exist as independent entities. In those cases in which the skills and capabilities that characterized new ecosystem domains were distinct enough to justify a truly focused strategy (for example,...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also considered how decision-making, structure, and information...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
leaders’ public statements repudiating these bills, a charge led by Black business leaders; increased violence against Asian Americans, particularly older women, but also increased visibility for a minority that has long remained invisible under the guise of the model...
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- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. In our first laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from...
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