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- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
need to get to breakeven and to deal with unreasonable valuation expectations of the last several years. That being said, my research and research by others has shown that venture capital and startup market slowdowns are opportune times... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
that no one had ever seen and that no one understood what it did was brilliant” Those are the questions David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano address in their new book, Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Illiquidity
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan calls "fighting fires."... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on "The Future of Market Capitalism." The HBS Alumni Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
realize that it involves skills that can be learned and refined, according to Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis. Highly skilled advisers pay close attention to how they advise as much as what kind... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
its operating companies. Two weeks after the kickoff event—three fabulous days of inspirational talks by inventors, creators, and consultants—each attendee received a big box with the words "Tool Kit" on the front. It was filled... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. But what do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
HBS professor David A. Thomas hates the word "mentor." In his opinion, it's as empty a buzzword as "coach." In fact, when Thomas spoke to an audience of around 100 administrative managers at Harvard University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
The specter of "headquarters" usually looms large in the business world's imagination, but few managers—and few CEOs, especially new CEOs—understand how size, structure, and performance of headquarters interact. To investigate, Harvard Business School senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
In When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, David A. Moss explores government's role as insurer of last resort in everything from crafting consumer protection law to bailing out airlines after September 11th. He... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
songs since its April 2003 debut. No wonder then that Steve Jobs was a recent BusinessWeek cover boy. But for longtime Apple watcher David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
challenges and opportunities posed by digital platforms, The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power is a new book by Harvard Business School Professor View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
running lab experiments is that we can simulate many different types of inequality and look at many different types of decisions.” "You'd think that with such a large change in our society, you'd see a definitive impact somewhere," says View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Apr 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
Increase the diversity of employees in your organization—for example, on the basis of race, gender, religion, nationality, and sexual orientation—and you'll automatically have a better company. Right? That's the prevailing belief anyway. But according to HBS professors... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
and efficiency, lean's influence (and various interpretations of its tenets) continues to grow. In their working paper "Lean Principles and Software Production: Evidence from Indian Software Services," HBS doctoral student Bradley Staats and professor View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
With the sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, the newspaper enters a crucial phase in its 136-year history amid disruptive changes in communications, technology, and reader habits. According to HBS professors Bharat Anand and David... View Details