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- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
in with your employer about what hardware they will provide, what you can be reimbursed for, and what you may want to invest in for yourself. Lighting – Set up your workspace near a window if possible for natural light and add additional...
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- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
power is a “platform” that can be used to control markets and discourage competition. Apple’s design capability may be remarkable, but its platform—iOS, Mac OS, iPhone, iPad, Macbooks, even Apple TV—is the force behind its control of certain markets for View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to...
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7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded...
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- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
entrepreneurs face when launching new products. Understanding what went wrong Wu and Peterson studied timelines from 314 entrepreneurs across 722 technology hardware projects from September 2010 through June 2019, all crowdfunded through...
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- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
helpful, such as the best route to take to work to avoid traffic. Newer technologies such as the Internet, social networks, and specialized hardware may come to the rescue by providing easy ways of surveying customers, testing product...
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Business Curricula for the HBS Elected Curriculum course, "Business and the Environment" with Forest Reinhardt. 2008 Alan D. MacCormack: Received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Software and Hardware Foundation Grant in 2008. 2006...
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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams...
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- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
that.” Another takeaway was that hardware will be the next space for innovation and disruption. “They all had differing views about the meaning of innovation,” adds Anderson. “For those on the large company/institution side, innovation is...
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Margie Kelley
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
profit is by selling complementary goods and services. For example, IBM sells consulting services and proprietary software that are complementary to the OS software it develops, and Sun sells complementary hardware such as servers....
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
without a bookstore,” she says. “It’s every bit a part of a community as a bank or a grocery store or a hardware store.” As she surveyed her new business in early 2016, however, Brody knew the East Hampton icon couldn’t remain trapped in...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in...
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- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
researchers use a complex mathematical model to get to the bottom of just why enemies might decide to share a locker. It boils down to a difference in how they make their money. "Even though both [companies] make money from hardware and...
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Forum for Growth
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Topics Topics Alumni Spotlight Current Events Through the Lens of Theory Peer Insights Theory in Action Filters Topics Topics Alumni Spotlight Current Events Through the Lens of Theory Peer Insights Theory in Action 18 Nov...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
of HBS Live programming. “We’ve combined video conferencing software with television production hardware and techniques to create a much more interactive, engaging experience,” explains Hilt. “We control the technology, including multiple...
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Gaming: statistics
Where can I find information on gaming hardware and software? The Entertainment Software Association website lists sales, demographic, and usage data, as well as information intended to improve the image of the industry. Search eMarketer...
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James G. Treybig
systems would not crash if one piece of hardware malfunctioned. Tandem’s revenues doubled every year between 1976 and 1981, making it one of the fastest growing businesses in the seventies.
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New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
see and speak with each other. Off camera in the control room, production staff “direct the show,” says Dustin Hilt, director of HBS Live programming. “We’ve combined video conferencing software with television production hardware and...
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Shereen Shermak
Shereen is a founder of multiple Boston-based startups, most recently Nth Party (acq. MGNI) and Atlantic Quantum. She was previously a Boston-based venture capitalist, entrepreneur and active angel investor. Previously, Shereen served as a Fund Manager and CEO at...
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