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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
promising start-ups, which, without multiple funding rounds, fell into a financial "Valley of Death"—that precarious stage between researching and developing a product and actually going to market with it. "You could raise... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50057 November 2015 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Done but Not Published: The Dissertation Journeys of Roy J. Lewicki and J. Keith Murnighan By: Kopelman, Shirli, Anne L.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But most firms lack a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical applications, materials science, and industrial sectors. Modularity also provided... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
Publications August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem By: Quoidbach, Jordi, June Gruber, Moïra Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Bridging psychological View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Zhu, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School, who details the rise and fall of the information giant in a new working paper. "There has been lots of research on the accuracy of... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
recent vaccine for Ebola took five and a half years. And why does it take so long? First of all, it requires a rigorous scientific assessment. And here we didn't even understand the virus itself or how the virus affects the immune system.... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
claiming an unexpected career toll among scientific researchers, and particularly on women, new research shows. If you are female, have young children, or work in a lab, you are more likely to feel the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
researches tax policy, international finance, and corporate finance. The book grew out of his efforts to make finance more accessible through executive education teaching and his online course Leading with Finance. His previous book, The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
could come from the experience. Lastly, the value of the learning that might result from analyzing and discussing simple mistakes is often overlooked. Many scientific discoveries have resulted from those who were attentive to simple... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Berkeley. Its unique materials technology has been exploited for 10 years, but the company needs a new business model. The company concept required the invention of hardware and software to do high throughput materials discovery, and a business partnership model to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
http://www.people.hbs.edu/acuddy/in%20press,%20carney,%20cuddy,%20&%20yap,%20psych%20science.pdf Telegraphs—Shrinking Economic Distances? A Preliminary Enquiry, 1870s-1912 Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Publication: Business Archives: Sources & History, no. 99... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
this way: Decisions on personal matters carry a greater weight of art; those that relate to work have more of science. Frances Pratt commented, "It is often the art that allows us to imagine that we are indeed making a controlled, View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
sociologists (and increasingly, economists) view networks to be essential to the functioning of markets, I will review much of the work that has been done in economic sociology on the formation of networks, as well as a little of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
the customer knowledge gained from conducting market research at the front end of NPD affects which of these opportunities the firm should pursue. Pitfalls in analyzing the customer data are described, along with guidelines on how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
theoretical conclusion based on the historical experiences of business groups built up by the British-based trading companies with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origins comes close to mainstream assessments reached by the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
frame and articulate that value. Second, price-testing is increasingly important. In his autobiography written in 1963, ad man David Ogilvy noted that, “Most people assume companies use scientific methods in pricing, but throughout my... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
characterized by some boundary conditions (Study 6). We discuss the theoretical contribution of this work to research on moral regulation and ethical behavior. "CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel