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- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
say, a cloud computing company. "I think the [venture philanthropy] model really does work," he said. "It's long term and makes it hard to see short-term results. But we can show mounting...
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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
was a role model for me. I decided back then that I wanted to do what he did, work in technology and build a business.” That desire led Mistele to the University of Michigan, where he earned an undergraduate degree in computer engineering...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
workflow. When you think about cloud computing and how it started, 10 or almost 15 years ago, it resembles how we think about talent, because 15 years ago, companies used to own their View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud View Details
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Fortunately, says Lerner, the opportunities for entrepreneurs have probably never been better, in part because the cost of starting a business has never been lower and in part because the mania for investing in startups has led to all kinds of funding options....
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Alexander Gelfand
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
and more in terms of fostering growth. For those used to a venture-capital model of funding fast-growing software start-ups, it will mean realizing that a socially focused company may grow slower than, say, a cloud View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Sandhill Road was that there was no money in developer tools—but user growth was accelerating, and cloud computing seemed to be changing the world. The founders were friendly and willing to meet...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
of upgrades in freemium companies, and the six questions that new business enterprises should explore when considering the freemium model. The article mentions how four companies including NYTimes.com newspaper and Dropbox cloud storage...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
cloud and edge computing. They show how to deliver truly intelligent, and potentially even autonomous, products with the more personalized and compelling experiences that today’s users, consumers and enterprises expect. The book features...
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- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
mention” candidates, Tony Hsieh, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson. Musk did his undergraduate work at Wharton and completed a graduate degree in physics at Stanford. Hsieh displayed entrepreneurial skills as a student at Harvard College where he received his BA in View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
of creating a business. A few years ago, the amount of money needed to fund a new company would make this kind of investing just a drop in the bucket for most startups. Today, the bar to start a company has been lowered thanks to cloud...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Bjerg is staring blankly at his computer screen. He adjusts his two monitors and fiddles with the speakers as he awaits the start of his next League of Legends battle. As he does many days, Bjerg will sit here playing the popular video...
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- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Cloud Computing Authors:Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles Publication:European Business Review (January 2012) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history....
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
range of ideas and voices assembled by a succession of talented editors. From ardent speeches on leadership by the School's founders, to impassioned editorials about the causes of the Great Depression, to insightful commentary on the dawn of the View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
changing rapidly, but it’s clear that the early winners so far are ones that are not exposed to a single model. Instead, it’s companies like Nvidia, which has obviously been meaningfully in the news, which is basically serving as that tool supplier to the businesses...
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- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
amazing. And, in fact, it could take off and land itself, but people get freaked out about that. So the pilot does that because they've got to earn their salary somehow. And this flight, Qantas flight 32 that takes off on this morning in 2010, it takes off in a picture...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
so that vast amounts of data can be captured and analyzed in order to improve the allocation and use of natural resources. Working with Microsoft and Cisco, Living PlanIT is doing this through its Urban Operating SystemTM—a unified, distributed, real-time control...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
talk to their peers about recent developments in this burgeoning industry. As copresident of this year's Communications, Media, & Computing Ventures Club, he helped stage Cyberposium '96, a gathering of high-tech gurus and corporate...
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