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- March 2018 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
X: The Foghorn Decision
In February 2016, Kathy Hannun—a project leader at X, Alphabet Inc.'s so-called "moonshot factory"—had to prepare a recommendation for the senior leadership of X regarding the future of Foghorn, a project she was leading to develop a carbon-neutral process for...
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R&D Project Management;
Radical Innovation;
Clean Technology;
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Technological Innovation;
Energy;
Research and Development;
Projects;
Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technology Industry;
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California
Huckman, Robert S., Karim R. Lakhani, and Kyle R. Myers. "X: The Foghorn Decision." Harvard Business School Case 618-060, March 2018. (Revised September 2023.)
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market...
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- Fast Answer
Identifiers in Business Information Databases
style="font-size:11pt">ISIN – International Securities Identification Number. These are issued to companies in all countries. Consists of 12 characters. The first 2 alphabetical characters identify the country of origin. ...
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- 10 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Using an MBA for a Career Change
Deloitte in New YorkPre-MBA career I never picked a major in college. I took the first one off the alphabetical list – accounting. I took the gig as an auditor at Deloitte in New York because “Sex and the City” was popular around that...
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- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
organizations? Retirees may also find that all that extra time at home can ruffle relationships. In the study, some men whose wives had been homemakers said they drove their wives crazy soon after retirement by invading the kitchen and doing things like View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship
learned about Sidewalk Labs, a unit of Alphabet (Google) with “a grand vision of developing the Toronto waterfront using advanced technology to make a better city, one with more efficient transportation and a more sustainable...
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- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
a process of five steps by which companies can effectively scale experimentation, using an alphabetical mnemonic: Awareness, Belief, Commitment, Diffusion, Embeddedness. The five stages of creating an experiment organization, adapted from...
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by Michael Blanding
- 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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- Alumni WDYDWYD
Mary Dell Harrington
In January 2012, I co-founded a blog, Grown and Flown: Parenting from the Empty Nest, jumping into the deep end of social media. Though on Facebook, I had everything to learn about blogging, twitter, Pinterest, SEO, and an alphabet soup...
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- Portrait Project
Dominique Baillet
I've always had a big mouth. In third grade, I informed my teacher, Mr. Rogers, that the design for recess line-up was flawed: We kids spent disproportionate time organizing alphabetically at the cost of the very freedom recess was...
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- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
honors Albert Gordon (MBA 1925), and Batten Way at the south entrance to the campus honors Frank Batten (MBA 1952). See here for an alphabetical list of physical things at HBS given memorial names. I recently learned of another kind of...
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- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”
particular industry, he saw his internship as a gateway to entrepreneurship. “Microsoft was immense,” he says. “I wanted to work at a smaller company.” While following the social media account of HBS’ Career & Professional Development Office, he learned about...
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- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
an incredibly successful advertising model on desktop to mobile devices. I learned about the mobile ecosystem and its vocabulary: apps, developers, deep-linking, SDKs, APIs, server-side, device IDs, carriers, exchanges, SSPs, DSPs, DMPs, etc. It sometimes felt like a...
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- Web
Revitalizing the Corporation: Modern Corporate Strategy - Course Catalog
by companies, like Amazon, Meta and Alphabet that develop entirely novel business models, than by entrenched incumbents, such as P&G or Ford, which struggle to eke out market share gains. However, many of the most valuable new ventures,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Dornenburg (Little, Brown & Co.) This guide to creating delicious dishes contains tips, anecdotes, and signature dishes from the most imaginative chefs in the country. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and...
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- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
precomputer times: on 8x5-inch alphabetized cards, one per alum, filling buckets set in five-foot-long deep trays placed on four revolving shelves, like cars on a very wide, miniature (about 4 ½ feet tall), electrically operated Ferris...
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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
that has resulted in an 18-year marriage, a teenage daughter and son, and occasional business partnerships. Ironically, they both worked at Monitor (their names were next to each other on the company's alphabetical phone directory), but...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
embodiment of virtual capitalism into the modern world. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50918 Harvard Business School Case 717-418 Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers In October 2015, Google restructured...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
more targeted advertisements based on the demographics of the passers-by. The LinkNYC program rolling out in New York City will provide a combination of high-speed Wi-Fi and “context aware” ads. The program is a partnership with Intersection, the first company launched...
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- Web
Commencement 2018 Address | About
realization of a dream, and a moment of true celebration, as evident in the joyous spirit you feel on our campus today. In keeping with my affection for alliteration, I pick a letter of the alphabet so that I might share with you some...
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