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- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
says, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco,’ but it wasn’t the ‘little cable cars climbing half-way to the stars’—it was the willingness to follow a long path of discovery and try and fail repeatedly until one succeeded. And the best...
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- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
Message in a Melody that hosted music events to fundraise for Pediatric Oncology Research. At twenty, some friends and I tried to build a second-hand item marketplace on my campus—we failed because we were not resilient to negative...
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- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
idea suffered from both density and doubt. In short, we wondered not only what its applications really looked like in practice but also if it could ever really live up to its hype. Those questions are at the heart of our recent profile of John Levy [LEE-VEE], CEO of...
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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk," namely the risk that a government will discriminatorily change the laws, regulations, or contracts governing an investment—or will View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
civilians' support for the opposition, who failed to protect them. Instead we show that such violence increases parochial forms of solidarity and social engagement within the refugee community. Altogether this suggests that, when...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
Apparel (B) The (B) case provides post-mortem analysis from Quincy's cofounders on why their startup failed and what they could have done differently. Explanations for failure focus on Quincy's ambitious...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete, says Teixeira. After lobbying and regulation View Details
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understanding why startups fail and what entrepreneurs can do to anticipate and avoid failure. Additionally, the course prepares prospective entrepreneurs, those interested in joining startups, and those...
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- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
emissions in many settings in which it would otherwise fail to do so. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42912 Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors By: Gow, Ian D., Aida...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says...
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by Kim Girard
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing or able to invest their...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Buckley (Profile Books) Beginning in the mid-1990s, Sabis, a private, for-profit education provider, transformed the Alfred Glickman School from a failing school in one of America’s most violent cities into a silver medalist in U.S. News...
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- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
inevitable; it will never be eliminated. This is an oversimplication of a complex phenomenon, with nuances in every large organization that has grown beyond the “one for all and all for one” startup spirit. But when it rises to a level...
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- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
technology) to get a new business, product or project off the ground. In a turnaround, the new leader takes on a unit or group that is recognized to be in trouble and works to get it back on track. Both startups and turnarounds involve...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
deregulations also led to a dramatic increase in "churning" at the lower end of the size distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
money out there looking for interesting new businesses. On the face of it, it’s a match made in heaven, with lots of positives; but beware the negatives. Those investment decisions will shape the future of your business. The standard models that investors impose on...
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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance By: Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning Abstract— We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
their predecessors (Intel, Apple, and Oracle, to name a few), in the last fifteen years, Valley startups such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Yahoo!, and Adobe have changed the way the world works, thinks, plays, communicates, and does...
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Susan Young