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  • March 2019
  • Article

When Does Advice Impact Startup Performance?

By: Aaron Chatterji, Solène Delecourt, Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore whether the advice entrepreneurs receive about managing their employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Field Experiment; Peer Effects; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Advice; Management Style; Management Practices and Processes; Knowledge Dissemination; Entrepreneurship; Performance; India
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  • May–June 1996
  • Article

Ruling the Net

By: D. L. Spar and Jeffrey J. Bussgang
The Internet promises a radical new world of business. But for many companies, it has yet to deliver. Although doing business in cyberspace may be novel and exhilarating, it can also be frustrating, confusing, and even unprofitable. Debora Spar and Jeffrey Bussgang... View Details
Keywords: Information Services; Online Technology
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  • 10 Sep 2018
  • News

Why big companies squander good ideas

  • 27 May 2017
  • News

The Dumb Politics of Elite Condescension

    Trends and Predictors of Biomedical Research Quality, 1990-2015

    This work leverages the strengths of expert human assessments of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) included in Cochrane reviews with data science techniques to build a comprehensive database on biomedical research quality. The data links the full-text and... View Details

    • 30 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Future of IT Consulting

    The explosion of "computer-to-computer" communication in the twenty-first century is triggering a growth phase for IT consultants. Harvard Business School professor Richard Nolan and HBS Interactive Senior Vice President Larry Bennigson trace the evolution of... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
    • 16 Mar 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

    and ultimately make the Internet less useful than it could be. Another important challenge is that if networks can't get new IP addresses, it will be harder to enter many technology businesses. Want to start a new ISP? Or run a service... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
    • 23 Apr 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Amazon in Seattle: The Role of Business in Causing and Solving a Housing Crisis

    Keywords: Re: Paul M. Healy; Technology
    • January 1994 (Revised November 2002)
    • Case

    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

    By: Stephen P. Bradley and Pankaj Ghemawat
    Focuses on the evolution of Wal-Mart's remarkably successful discount operations and describes the company's more recent attempts to diversify into other businesses. The company has entered the warehouse club industry with its Sam's Clubs and the grocery business with... View Details
    Keywords: Stocks; Price; Marketing Channels; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology
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    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Leading Businesses in a Web3 World

    Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg Web3 is poised to transform everything we do online by decentralizing and democratizing the internet. That transformation is already underway in the business world: built on blockchain technology that... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

    By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
    Recent work argues that experimentation is the appropriate framework for entrepreneurial strategy. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of experimentally testing... View Details
    Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance
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    Events - Business History

    Kellee Tsai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Jul 14 14 Jul 2017 Conference Oral History, Business History and Business Archives in India This one-day conference held at the Harvard Business School India Research Center in... View Details
    • March 2017 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    Floodgate: On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards

    By: Rory McDonald, Alix Burke, Emma Franking and Nicole Tempest
    Founded in 2008, Floodgate pioneered the “micro-VC” category, a new type of investment firm that raised smaller funds and made earlier, smaller investments in technology startups than traditional venture-capital firms. By 2015, Floodgate had raised three funds totaling... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Business Models; Angel Investors; Crowdfunding; Incubators; Accelerators; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Information Technology; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Competitive Strategy
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    The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA

    Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details
    • Web

    Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience - MBA

    Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details
    • 23 Oct 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Strategy-Focused Organization

    strategy. Heads of shared service units—marketing, human resources, and information technology, among others—were included in the membership of the leadership team to ensure that information about customers, people, and technology were... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
    • 13 May 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

    Corporate scandals often follow a pattern: Whether it’s Theranos and its fraudulent blood testing technology, Wells Fargo and its fake financial accounts, or Volkswagen and its bogus emissions data, a whistleblower eventually comes forward to expose the behavior, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
    • Web

    HBS Veteran Spotlight: Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025) - MBA

    Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details
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    Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    England Journal of Medicine Catalyst The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology by Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary Landman and Michael E. Porter As the diffusion of value-based health care efforts accelerates... View Details
    • Web

    The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back - MBA

    Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details