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- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
service targeted at an established market, then rapid market entry and a quick sellout provide the best chances for success. For an entrepreneur wanting to build a business over time, the odds can be improved dramatically by finding a...
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- 26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest were Boss Medical and Baby.com.br, while SANA Care won in the social enterprise track. More than 90 teams submitted entries as part of this year's Alumni New Venture Contest. Clubs in Boston, Brazil, Chicago, Germany, India, New...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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HBS Seeks Deeper Ties with China
opportunity in deepening our understanding of China’s businesses and business practices.”Added McFarlan: “The center dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for HBS faculty to do case development and research in China.” Thirty HBS...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Making a Difference in the World
“greatest challenge ”Bloomberg quote. Foreword, C40 Carbon Disclosure Project 2011 p. 34 All C40 data C40 web site http://www.c40cities.org/ “Mayors can’t just talk ”Bloomberg quote (NYT 6/2/11) “Ancient Rome Baghdad London.”. From Wikipedia “city” View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
enterprises. While the south corridor's exhibit items focus on these industries, materials hung in the north corridor depict aspects of modern marketing, displaying advertising materials for products and services such as bicycles, mackerel, beer, barbed wire, and...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2016
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Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
such as acquiring something they don’t have, acquiring something they’re finding it difficult to develop, or jump-starting their entry into a category where they want to be more successful. As the old saying goes, “Why mess with success?”...
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- 29 Jun 2016
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The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
off the top price of each item sold. Rogers' plan is to also split another 1 percent to 2 percent among key community members who help improve the design. How long did it take to build a game-changing transportation solution? Rogers says that from the moment...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
entries in Nathaniel Chamberlain’s account book, this glimpse into 18th-century American domestic life is one of hundreds of stories about women and work that is surfacing thanks to a new initiative at Baker Library. The project, called...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market
slotting into a job in an established business had little allure. He wanted to start something new, ideally a for-profit enterprise that would have a visible social impact. But when he thought about health care delivery, Singh found himself daunted by the barriers to...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
challenges traditional views about the source of Japan's competitive success. Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, head of the unit's required course, Competition and Strategy, focuses on strategic commitments - decisions that involve significant amounts of irreversibility, such...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
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Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
represented a substantial barrier to entry to any competitors, our long-term success would depend on customer service, scalability, and building the brand. While practically every other dot-com chose to advertise on the Internet, we saw...
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James E. Aisner
- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
in gaining entry to the fashion industry, ARF partnered with RAISE Fashion to establish a 10-week, paid summer internship program for rising juniors and seniors at the four HBCUs. Among the notable companies taking part in the program are...
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Deborah Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
Above: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) at GM World in Detroit’s Renaissance Center (photo by Brian Kelly) Who you are is the sum total of your experiences. Growing up in Chennai, India, the importance of education and working incredibly hard were drilled into my mind as...
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Julia Hanna
- 25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
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Case Study: Something New
readers weighed in on a question posed by KitNipBox cofounder and CEO Deena Malkina (MBA 2008): How could the monthly subscription service for cat owners erect sustainable barriers to entry to the market and secure a market leadership...
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April White
- 30 Apr 2021
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Revealing the Rules
affect some people? We can look at the numbers: A study by the Ascend Foundation found that in Silicon Valley, Asians are the racial group most likely to be hired but the least likely to be promoted from individual contributor to manager. A McKinsey study found that...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Taking the Plunge
high-end, traditional model toilets it introduced to the U.S. market in 1989, the Washlet, as the bidet-toilet is known, has been a much tougher sell. In “TOTO: The Bottom Line,” HBS associate professor Mary Tripsas considers barriers to View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
to the first contest. The climate was ripe in 1997. Enrollment in courses like Entrepreneurial Finance and Entrepreneurial Management was way up; the Internet revolution — with its low barriers to entry — was in high gear; venture...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Up to the Highest Heights
has,” says Tai, who admits there’s a high barrier for entry into the daring sport. “But anything that draws people together will create trusting relationships that lead to commerce.” Multimillion-dollar deals have been made on the beaches...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2012
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New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
created by Brandon Molina (MBA 2010), offers distance-to-green accuracy using wireless and GPS technology. Now in its third year, the Alumni New Venture Contest saw an increase in entries of more than 40 percent over 2011, for a total of...
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