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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience
(photo via Twitter) (photo via Twitter) Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) and his fellow HBS cofounders didn’t have any tech experience when they launched the online freelance marketplace HourlyNerd. Three years later the company, now known as...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How did the United States lose its leading edge in producing innovative goods and services? Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Shih, professor of management practice,...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
emulators — turned out to be just the right size. It’s not too small — we’re growing nicely — but not too big, so there aren’t a lot of other people in it. What I’d like to do over: We were very hands-on in the beginning. We might have realized sooner that we could use...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
logistics can be outsourced to a global company like DHL. Mexico has a cost advantage, so it can naturally be a production center. —Ali al Shihabi (MBA 1985) Consider researching how Indian furniture startups View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Upstart Startup
In 1999, Wall Street bankers Randy Altschuler (MBA ’98) and Joseph Sigelman (MBA ’97) founded OfficeTiger in Madras, India, to serve as an outsourcing shop to perform secretarial services for Wall Street...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
It’s a sunny May afternoon in LA. Søren Bjerg, a slender and pale 21-year-old with chunky glasses and a black hoodie, is sitting in the den of the house he shares with a half dozen other guys. It’s decorated...
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- 24 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
luxurious offshore destination for boaters and non-boaters alike." How did your family and friends respond when they heard the idea? "When I first told my parents, I think they...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
from his Burden Hall audience. Asked about outsourcing and whether the U.S. government should offer tax inducements to counter it, Buffett replied that he saw outsourcing as “a...
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- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
going to scale back in the U.S. to keep their options open by continuing to operate a plant in America,” he noted. But the damage done by offshoring high-tech manufacturing may be irreversible, he warned. Once factories relocate abroad,...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s venture-capital firms and scores of...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
government has been unresponsive to date. With Western companies such as Microsoft, GE, and IBM making significant investment in IT outsourcing in India, the pressure is on for the government to toe the...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
highly visible undertakings such as the $4 billion Jurong Island complex, in which seven offshore islands were linked with imported landfill to form a huge new industrial area for land-strapped Singapore. Less apparent, but no less...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
things like the Great Depression, which was another moment when the world stood still, and you had the uncertainty that you see surrounding us right now. So if you take that as a precedent—and put aside World War II for a moment—what that...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
still have a number of manual processes here, so we see a lot of scope for more and more businesses in Jamaica to become technology-enabled, particularly in health care, financial services, and agriculture....
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?
consumer-electronics companies started outsourcing their manufacturing to Asia. But by the 1990s, the R&D had migrated there as well. This tight connection between R&D, innovation, and production is present...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.
leap that we’d hoped for, and it will still keep us far ahead of our competition. It’s the best-selling airplane of all time during the preproduction phase. And we learned a lot of things that we won’t do...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
encourage investment in the energy sector would also boost competitiveness. What are attractive investment opportunities in India? Sectors that require technical and labor-intensive input, such as software services, business process View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
Mookerjee recently served as managing director of Capital One’s Asia business ventures, based in Bangalore, India. When that assignment ended in June 2004, he decided to remain with his family in India and subsequently launched an...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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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...
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