Core Values - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

Books

making boards smaller, ensuring their independence, maintaining three core committees, and providing leadership that reinforces the board’s independence and effectiveness. Within this general framework, they suggest numerous ways that... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Feb 2022
News

Launch Codes

The first HBS New Venture Competition was held in 1997, in the era of PalmPilot and RealPlayer. And while the tech landscape has changed dramatically since then, many of the core lessons of the entrepreneurial experience—scaling, funding,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

Web

Letter from Dean Srikant Datar to the HBS Community on Ukraine | About

Russia's war against Ukraine . A number of learning opportunities—some designed for the HBS community, and others open to the broad Harvard community—are taking shape, including: Mon. 2/28, 12-1pm, “ Ukraine Under Attack ” – A panel of experts will address View Details

18 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 18

range of contexts, information costs approach zero. In this chapter, we discuss how sharply reduced information costs enable organizations to engage with communities of developers, professionals, and users for core innovative activities,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Netscape's initial financiers, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. While Brooks struggled to interest EG&G in backing his concept (EG&G considered Brooks's idea outside its core business), Kleiner... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

Web

Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

directly from HBS faculty, as more and more academics and practitioners began to question why results-driven thinking couldn’t be applied to the social sector. The core of Bridgespan’s strategy is anchored in knowledge: to capture and... View Details

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

though, are not administrative. "The biggest challenge we face is a cultural shift. People who by and large get into these organizations have amazing compassion. They want to clothe the homeless and feed the hungry. And for them to create a business is often at... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2022
Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

in control. When you can consistently see high levels of anxiety, stress, confusion and uncertainty, and those emotions have not faded over time, we felt we were clearly on to something related to innovating the home buying process that merited further investigation.”... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

high consideration. Spiritual and ethical factors are often viewed as separate “silos,” but these core values pervasively shape, bind, and energize the economic culture. Long-term policy and growth must... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Meditations on the Bottom Line

order that has survived this kind of transition." Despite ongoing challenges such as establishing cash flow, keeping up employee morale, and maintaining the organization's core spiritual values in the face... View Details

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Business Education & The Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

management—were new. The School’s first dean, Edwin F. Gay, led the development of the core curriculum for the emerging field of business administration. Before the completion of the Allston campus in 1927, HBS classes took place in... View Details

Web

Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

them. Course Format: Spring Q3Q4. Students will meet once a week for a 120-minute session and will discuss cases, interact with guests, and/or actively apply tools. This course is for founders, joiners, investors, and consultants aspiring to create View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

is the secret sauce behind this new franchise? Two alumni on different sides of the process sum it up the same way: be true to the brand’s core value of creative, open-ended play. Movie producer Dan Lin (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

the Apple Watch, read Ryan Raffaelli's blog: Why the Apple Watch Is a Gift to the Swiss Watch Industry. Christian Camerota: Do you think the Apple Watch will fundamentally change our lives in a similar way the iPhone and iPad did? Betting on the Apple Watch as View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience. While the model seemed highly scalable because each vertical used the same core technology, every sector had its unique features.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014

Financials Supplemental Financial Information 5-Year Data Summary CFO Letter Consolidated Balance Sheet Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Supplemental Financial Information page 1 of 2 Revenues As outlined in the letter from the CFO, at the View Details

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

potential of new ideas could be inimical to operating a real business. All fall, the news had been sobering, as the dot-com bubble deflated, paring billions—ultimately trillions—of dollars of stock-market value from the "idea"... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

19 Jan 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

oversight, and compliance. What Are The Emotional Needs Of People Who Lay Off Fellow Employees? Conducting Layoffs: 'Necessary Evils' at Work "The core challenge for everyone who performs necessary evils comes from having to do two... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Publications