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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
Cost cutting can severely impair your ability to be competitive or could cause you to lose customers. This creates an opening for entrepreneurs who think holistically. They consider mutually reinforcing changes in the entire business View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Schumpeter strays in Business Cycles onto whatever tangents interest him. Today, research efforts comparable to what Schumpeter was trying to do often employ teams of half a dozen statisticians, economists, and other social scientists. But in the 1920s and 1930s, this...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in global teams. Faultlines, formed along the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
harebrained scheme." Mentors In The Garage According to Professor Dorothy Leonard, Silicon Valley has crucial lessons to teach big corporations, and the lessons are not necessarily about which Internet business models to avoid....
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives
Giovanna Abramo (MBA 2022) spent the last three years prior to HBS working at Bain & Company in Mexico City where she worked on performance improvement, strategy, and operational model redesign projects across industries like consumer...
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- 19 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library
year student reached out to me requesting an informational interview. He was involved at the time with an Australian firm that streamed videos to the academic market. I met with him and spoke about licensing models to the academic market...
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Make clear where we stand and where we aim to go. - Advancing Racial Equity
students, staff, and faculty and create a culture in which they can thrive, make their greatest contributions, and feel a strong sense of belonging. In doing this work, we aim to become a model for other organizations. As HBS improves...
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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog
through a private equity firm, search fund model or a public company that through dual class stock is still family controlled. It is also useful for everyone going into general management and / or want to be responsible owner investors....
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
Massachusetts, and thus knew well the difficulty of her undertaking in Cambridge, but she wanted to prove that the Passive House model could be implemented within a variety of architectural styles, opening the door to wider adoption. She...
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- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
position at San Mateo–based Shelter Network, which needed her skills to research and implement its merger with another homelessness service provider, InnVision, in Santa Clara. InnVision’s business model was to charge homeless people for...
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Maureen Harmon
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
of such historical accounts but observing that they can (1) bring to light complex realities and subtleties that parsimonious analytic models may neglect; (2) suggest overlooked, non-obvious aspects of the process that merit deeper, more...
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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
No one was fooled by that. At a certain point he was at a loss. When he came to class as a guest lecturer, he described different models of leadership and the problems with each one. What worked 10 years in didn't work 20 years in. He...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
and their work focuses on building models of social systems and classifications that better align with lived experience. Robin has written on these topics for scholarly venues, for the Supreme Court, and in a variety of popular outlets,...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
calculation also comes into play. Ferguson faulted widely used mathematical risk models for failure to build in historical data reaching back more than five years. “The problem with only five years of data is precisely that it will lead...
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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
problem here was the first a-ha, and then the next a-ha was that we came up with a really elegant solution to it. And then we were like, wow there’s a really interesting business model around this. We did a lot of upfront work. We...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
cropping up throughout the curriculum, in courses that not only incorporate technology in isolated exercises or cases but also suggest approaches that are valid in a broad spectrum of courses. "One of our current objectives is to use things that have worked well in one...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings can rattle employees and weaken confidence. At the same time,...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
effect dominates the negative within-firm effect post IPO. We build a firm industry model with endogenous entry to quantify the importance of two competing selection mechanisms: an increasing share of R&D-intensive firms in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
and emotion is, thus, critical to designing organizations, control systems, and governance structures that promote desired behaviors. Teaching Purpose: Some model of human nature, implicitly if not explicitly, guides any manager's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
I want to raise one who is also an advocate, always using his voice to help others. I want to raise a son who is also a feminist and in order to do this I must strive to be the best role model I can for him. Nitin Nohria, Dean of the...
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