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19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

difference between a customer's decision to shop in a store rather than online. This is a key issue at a time when many potential customers will walk into a store, use their smartphone to snap a photo of a product they like, then return... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

31 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

outcomes (through, for example, market-mediated trading systems, so-called "decision markets," for predicting the outcomes of things such as presidential elections and even potential success in war). Taken as a body, it may be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

that potential investors pay special attention to the career histories of all involved. Careers Count So what career factors gave biotech a boost? Higgins found three specific advantages in chief executive officers who led a successful... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

"disruptive technologies," thus becoming sitting ducks for smaller, more innovative competitors. One potential antidote that he recommends is for larger firms to create or partner with organizations that can literally put... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

potentially game-changing; and Carmichael Roberts, partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, discussed the firm’s mission of aggregating and funding ideas and companies to scale climate solutions. In closing, Tufano urged attendees to... View Details

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors

is economically unviable, and it would require a lot of process innovation to make financial sense and for them to scale it. Despite the potential here, Mr. Acharya doesn’t “see it happening in the next 20 years”. However, regulation... View Details

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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog

managing brands to achieve their full value potential has never been more difficult. Consumers are increasingly diverse, skeptical of marketing, and empowered by digital technologies that easily connect them to others who share their... View Details

22 Apr 2021
News

Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship

Director Eileen Chang, past fellowship recipients, and donors focused on the impact and meaning of the fellowship. In total, 108 alumni and potential donors participated. “The many voices in this discussion represented powerful messages... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2018
News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

better than they do. You have to be an absolute insider.” Open Mineral’s platform tries to correct this information asymmetry: The dashboard shows miners how many potential buyers might want their concentrate, and shows smelters what... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

performing functions traditionally relegated to government. Yet these potential cost efficiencies from market competition are often offset by poor enforcement quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

investment deals and 2.3 percent of dollars among the investors surveyed went to women-owned firms, the Center discovered. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, an authority on entrepreneurship—especially the founding of high potential new... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the team that will buy... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

performance doesn’t merit higher rewards. This creates a ripple effect, where other senior partners become resentful, disenchanted, and leave their jobs, causing instability that spooks potential investors and could lead to a firm’s... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

"Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire," Olds says. "It didn't make them want to walk on the net." In the next stage of his research, Olds is researching how the social safety net influences the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

help them to translate and transfer information about potential international trade decisions," Cohen explains. "We thought maybe the people who have ethnic links back to these countries—immigrants or other people who have a former... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

other functional managers, in hopes that they'll work as a team and discover effective ways to cooperate better. "By narrowing their focus in terms of their business portfolio, companies increase the potential for synergies,"... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

death. Professor Alvin Roth has used his expertise in game theory, experimental economics, and market design to create a program that helps match kidney donors with potential recipients. His work also matches medical residents with jobs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

those who don't raise outside money from Onset and its peers. Of course, that outside money is often necessary to build a valuable company, so King-motivated founders usually have to give up a lot of potential growth to remain King. In... View Details

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

That's right. Incumbents are constrained by their existing resources, capabilities, and mindset, and this simultaneously places a weight on the back of the large company and creates potential for the entrepreneur. For the most part you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

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