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Global Understanding - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
towns), garnering unforgettable lessons in crisis leadership, entrepreneurship, and economic revival. Some of their projects are documented in HBS cases written by Takeuchi in collaboration with students—such as Google Japan’s response...
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- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
Companies and government leaders have long tried to recreate the kind of Silicon Valley innovation magic that made Facebook and Google such goldmines. Cities from Cincinnati to Saskatoon have launched startup labs. Companies including...
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by Danielle Kost
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
bottom-line motivators of any person in trauma.” Nonprofit organizations help people regain their self-confidence and return to the community. Lisle immediately identified technology as an area for growth. “Technology companies are acknowledging that they can play a...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School who...
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- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
Gompers and research assistant Sophie Wang developed a novel way to determine exactly how much gender diversity influenced performance. Examining reunion books from the small number of universities accounting for the bulk of venture...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called Project Loon, headed by...
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- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
first, should Schibsted allow Google to crawl its online news sites in Scandinavia? Second, were Schibsted's successes within Scandinavia repeatable outside it? Indeed, how far could Schibsted's competitive advantage travel? Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
Roland de Demandolx (MBA 2002) who led the effort. “It's a key event of the year that gives us the opportunity to reach out to alumni running other HBS Alumni Clubs across Europe and Israel. It is also a way to assist the school in...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
All of the most valuable firms in the world today are platforms, starting with Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. But platforms do not evolve in predictable ways, and there is a lot that managers and entrepreneurs can learn about past,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
gamer, the coder, the hacker—all stereotypically male. Recent statistics give some truth to that image. In 2014, Google reported that 7 out of every 10 of its then 48,600 employees were men. The number was even higher among its engineers...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
today, or even eighteen months ago,” says Tal Riesenfeld (MBA 2008), vice president of business development. Between his first and second years at HBS, Riesenfeld worked for Google in California, where he met a number of Silicon Valley...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
nearly 350 in just two years, and a recent investment of $110 million by TPG Growth, Evolent is keeping that momentum going. "Working in health care right now is like joining Google in 1999," says Blackley. "We're on the cusp of a...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
includes projects that have received funding from the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator Fund. Needleman received funding from the accelerator last year, for a project that involves the success rate of assisted reproductive technologies...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
company's brand among its stakeholders. Glass needed to weigh the pros and cons of private capital versus federal assistance or somehow combine the two. This case reviews the impact of the financial crisis on the life insurance and...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
make those strategies problematic, says Assistant Professor Karim R. Lakhani. It's often difficult in creative fields to set specific deliverables to which you can attach incentives. And the very fact that the manager is focusing so much...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big data obtained from Google Analytics and the company’s own sales and customer databases to select the next season’s assortment. Peck was...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
complete; and the precept that anyone in the room, from the CEO to an assistant animator, would be equally welcome to offer feedback. She watched as emboldened staff offered their suggestions for tweaks to characters and plot points—some...
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