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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
human capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-013.pdf Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller "Footprint" Strategy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
breakthrough technology and innovative business models. Audrey's role prior to HBS was a Senior Manager and Acting Zambia Country Director at One Acre Fund. Aman Baboolal (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: MBA Intern, NextEra...
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Ikeda, HKS; Manoah Koletty, HKS; Mustafa Khalifeh Social Enterprise Track Winner Innovative consumer finance for the base of the pyramid. WAVE Hospitality Academy Misan Rewane, HBS; Karan Chopra, HBS; Navid Rahimi, HBS; Bryan Mezue, HBS;...
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- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
Meet Rebekah Emanuel – she’s the senior advisor for social impact at the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-lab). A McKinsey alum and HBS grad, Rebekah served as executive director of Imagine Boston, the first long-term plan for the City of...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
visible places where people can see cars charging out in the wild.” Green Construction Many American cities have ambitious green-building goals, and some states—notably Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and California—have programs to support View Details
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energy;
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entrepreneurship;
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Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
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Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
to go in the future." Launched in autumn 2006, GMP is a new executive education comprehensive leadership program designed to address the needs and concerns of precisely these managers. GMP's innovative teaching philosophy and...
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by Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
modular programs that include time spent both abroad and on the HBS campus by launching a new Senior Executive Leadership Program–China with solid enrollments. Executive Education delivered the second and third iterations of SELP–Middle...
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- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
Hollywood's efforts, but local Bollywood companies as well. Hollywood's efforts in India are far from a lost cause: all these problems can be addressed if a studio understands India and develops a coherent strategy. Is My Ip Threatened By Open Innovation? Working...
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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
to other firms than non-star analysts. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13633 The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry Authors:Alan MacCormack, John...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
and disks, and then to producers of chip-manufacturing technology, as each area in turn became the focus for innovation to improve performance. Old-school wisdom suggested that market leaders should "stick to their knitting" and outsource...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products, firms, and markets are all derived...
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- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
that can be mixed and matched in many combinations, depending on customers' needs. For example, General Motors designs and produces several transmissions, engines, and chassis that can be used to produce nearly its entire line of autos of different makes. View Details
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by James Heskett
- Mar 2012
- Article
Does America Really Need Manufacturing?
School's Pisano and Shih, executives need to examine two things. The first is modularity, or the degree to which product design can be separated from manufacturing. When modularity is low, product designs can't be clearly specified and...
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- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
Summing Up Platform leadership, the process by which base technologies are developed and on which innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based, may be characteristic of the knowledge economy. But it isn't new, at least to...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
organizational boundaries and organizational designs. We suggest that when critical tasks can be modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and available, open innovation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications infrastructures provided by the Internet...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
Batten Hall, on Western Avenue, is the totally renovated and redesigned building formerly occupied by the PBS television station WGBH. Batten Hall’s top two floors, reserved for HBS, are devoted to 10 curved, modular learning spaces...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
investments in architectural design can facilitate a more flexible innovation process. They observed successful firms creating a modular system that could accommodate the addition of new components without...
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Judith A. Ross