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- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established markets, aspiring providers of new...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and founder of The Sabbatical Project. You Might Also Like: How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are...
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by Kristen Senz
- September–October 2022
- Article
Case Study: What's the Right Career Move After a Public Failure?
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Francesca Gino
“Reunions are for happy people,” Mariani Kallis said to her friend Whitney on the phone. “I’m not going.” “Come on, it won’t be the same without you,” Whitney pleaded. “Besides, no one is happy right now. Everyone’s life is a mess.”
“I’m pretty sure none of our...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M., and Francesca Gino. "Case Study: What's the Right Career Move After a Public Failure?" Harvard Business Review 100, no. 5 (September–October 2022): 144–149.
- 13 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading
There it is, gleaming at the top of your LinkedIn feed: your dream job, a high-level, well-paying position in your field. Are you qualified enough? Should you apply? New research shows that women might be less likely to take that chance...
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by Kara Baskin
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
PublicationsAuctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications Authors:Peter Coles, Sanmay Das, Sébastien Lahaie, and Boleslaw Szymanski Publication:Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011 Abstract This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- November 2020 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
Community-First Public Safety
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short...
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Race;
Law Enforcement;
Governance;
Decision Making;
Safety;
Social Issues;
Public Administration Industry;
United States;
Minnesota;
Saint Paul
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "Community-First Public Safety." Harvard Business School Case 821-005, November 2020. (Revised June 2022.)
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
timeframe. In my case, I tried to think seriously about it every five years or so. The result was what I like to think of as short-term dreaming within the context of a long-term dream. Think of the lyrics to the tune “Happy Talk” from...
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by James Heskett
- Web
MBA Voices
incredibly strong community of immigrant parents, all of whom believed deeply in the American Dream and were relentlessly committed to helping their children achieve. [...] Read more 23 Sep 2024 HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight:...
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- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
rule, just this one time?" It was a difficult decision to make. The team would suffer without me. The guys on the team were my best friends. We'd been dreaming about this all year. I'm a deeply religious man, so I went away to pray...
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- February 2013 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Elasto Therm: The Next Step
By: Jim Sharpe and James Weber
Julia and Nate Burstein were living their dream running their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large...
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Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurs;
Pricing;
Pricing Policies;
Pricing Strategy;
Pricing Structure;
Sales Force Management;
Acquisitions;
Work/family Balance;
Family-owned Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Expansion;
Work-Life Balance;
Manufacturing Industry;
Rubber Industry;
United States
Sharpe, Jim, and James Weber. "Elasto Therm: The Next Step." Harvard Business School Case 813-030, February 2013. (Revised September 2013.)
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
business. “You don't raise $19 million and launch 16 stores and have $10 million in revenue and get on The Oprah Winfrey Show without doing a lot of things incredibly well,” says Eisenmann, who teaches an MBA course called “Entrepreneurial Failure” with Hyde. “But they...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
objectified as an extension of your work, too. You Might Also Like: Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars' When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your...
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by Avery Forman
- January 2024
- Case
Flashfood: The Magic of Commitment
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Josh Domingues had accomplished what countless young entrepreneurs long to achieve: founding a promising company that aspires to make the world a tangibly better place. Shocked to learn that international food waste cumulatively amounted to the world’s third largest...
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Entrepreneur;
Founder;
Startup;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Food;
Applications and Software;
Mission and Purpose;
Environmental Sustainability;
Canada
Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Flashfood: The Magic of Commitment." Harvard Business School Case 824-131, January 2024.
- 14 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career
live.” “It helped me process the possibility that the time at the company I had started could be finished, and that could be OK.” Even as he was feeling fulfilled by helping people, he felt himself crashing. “I didn’t think you could burn out from your View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
November 20, 2018 Journal of the American College of Cardiology Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory By: Reed, Grant W., Michael L. Tushman, and Samir R. Kapadia Abstract—Operational efficiency is a core business principle...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Courses - Entrepreneurship
total enterprise. There are a variety of entrepreneurship related elective courses to choose from. Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 5 Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 The American View Details
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
celebration of Whitney's 10th Reunion. Whitney passed away suddenly in 2018, and his wife, Brittanie, decided to endow the fund in honor of the class's 15th Reunion. Brittanie's goal was to help other students fulfill their dreams and...
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- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
went back and realized it was just an acre. It was so big in my mind. I went back, oh, this is this is not a farm. This is actually just a yard. When when when I was growing up there I had a dream for myself. I remember being out with my...
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by HBS Staff
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Anaïs Nin, Richard Wright Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs think Downton Abbey meets Call My Agent. -A family movie about the world of dreams, set on Earth and on a distant magical planet inhabited by the View Details
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Robert Bochnak
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
Decades ago, a talented young musician pursued his childhood dream of becoming the world’s greatest French horn player, studying with great teachers, attending music festivals, and always earning first chair. At 19, he dropped out of...
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by Avery Forman