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- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
their idea, but a little humility and a lot of discovery work can determine whether there’s a winning solution and save a lot of wasted time and money building the wrong thing.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
branding partnership would set off a wave of questionable decisions. “It set them on a cycle of, for the first time, raising outside capital, borrowing money from a bank, but also taking equity from venture... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
Many of us would prefer to see our philanthropic donations go directly to an organization’s core mission, rather than to administrative expenses. If we give money to Save the Children, for instance, we hope... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
BATNAs in Negotiation: Common Errors and Three Kinds of 'No' By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—The best alternative to a negotiated agreement (“BATNA”) concept in negotiation has proven to be immensely useful. In tandem with its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
activity to distance themselves from competitors. Microfinance: Business, Profitability, and the Creation of Social Value Author:Michael Chu Publication:Chap. 28 in Business Solutions for the Global Poor:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Fellowships - Business History
research proposal online no later than December 1, 2025. Letters of reference can be submitted online through interfolio or by email to bhi@hbs.edu with the applicant's name in the subject line. We are an... View Details
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
of value to the US economy each year, the researchers estimate. Sources: US Patent and Trademark Office; “(Live) and Work from Anywhere: Geographic Flexibility and Productivity Effects at the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
the MFS compensation philosophy and plan (including the plan's emphasis on subjective compensation), the types of people it attracted, the resulting culture, and how the senior management team approached the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
organizations to create and sustain value (in negotiations, in organizations, and in markets). We explore these interactions through diverse approaches: Although many of us have training in economics, we... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
persistence of behavior modifications between subjects rewarded with a monetary award with subjects that are exposed uniquely to peer pressure. Using hand hygiene performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
differences between flat-out lying and so-called deception by omission—that is, the willful avoidance of divulging important information, either by changing the subject or by saying as little as possible.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Fatima Albassam
In 2017, when Fatima Albassam was working in her home country of Saudi Arabia as a business development analyst for Saudi Aramco, she began making volunteer service trips to Jordan to support Syrian refugees. “While there,” Fatima says,... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
adopting a traditional business model. We show that the value of business model innovation may be so substantial that an incumbent may prefer to compete in a duopoly rather than to remain a monopolist.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
model for explaining how network resources contribute to organizational performance. Reach is the extent to which an organization's network connects it to diverse and distant partners. Richness represents the potential value View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
not a daily newspaper. “I remember bluffing and saying that I read it religiously, every quarter. He looked at me. I said I read it every month. Then he laughed. I must have done just well enough on the other answers for them to invite me back.” His entry-level salary... View Details
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Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets
and business for a fair amount of time, that you could so much with management, but not enough unless you added value to what the country is producing.” Download Transcript Mexico Alberto Baillères CEO,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
luxuries. After all, just because consumers are cutting back doesn't mean that they do not still enjoy products that give them pleasure and entertainment—or even distraction from the difficult times around them. The third category of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Strategic Channel Selection with Online Platforms: An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Deal Industry By: Zhang, Lingling, and Doug J. Chung Abstract—The platform—a business model that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne