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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
a new sector on top of existing infrastructure and industries is in fact the best way for a city to accelerate the growth of an entrepreneurial ecosystem—better by far than attempting to replicate the Silicon Valley model, which View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Lincoln's own words, the case traces the development of the 16th president's leadership philosophy, ethics, and skills in the years leading up to war. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
international investments: on what investors are actually doing. "The kind of information that had been available was very sparse. State Street Bank has an IT infrastructure which allows them, in a very organized way, to pull out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
The existing information infrastructure couldn’t support our concept of outcomes-based, disruptive health-care delivery.” As “the waters swirled around our noses,” Bush recalls, “Todd Park’s brother Ed came up with a web-based program to... View Details
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
ensure that the School continued to live within its means as the scope of activity at HBS expanded, our top financial priority was to ensure that revenue growth—including developing new sources of revenue—continued to exceed the rise in... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
me some standard interview questions, but then they asked, “what do you hope to learn and work on specifically?” I replied, “I want to source deals, see deal diligence, and work on investment theme development – specifically on enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
real-life scenarios. These simulations build from the simple - two parties negotiating a one-shot price deal for headlamps - to the complex-- many parties in a long-term relationship seeking agreement on the myriad issues involved in a major View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
curse to the economic fortunes of the county. On the one hand, it has poured massive investment into infrastructure improvements, as anyone who has witnessed the incredible growth of mega-cities such as Shanghai and Shenzhen can see.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
from investment opportunities in developed countries. Nari Kannan suggests that it is a product of "thoughtless consumerism ... (the thirst for cheap Chinese goods) ... and dependence on foreign oil," particularly in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
provides the infrastructure (or"middleware") that makes e-commerce work across disparate computer systems. His meaning, however, is just the opposite.. "The concept of e-business will disappear because every business will be an... View Details
- Profile
James Reinhart
our shopping infrastructure to support more data and site traffic. We’ve just opened a second distribution center where we’ll need to hire 500 to 600 people over the next two years to support the operation. What questions does that raise... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt conventional masculine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
generation ago. If you are a global entrepreneur, says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, "you have to think much earlier and much faster." The new MBA second-year course Launching Global Ventures (LGV), View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
well-tuned infrastructure with the company's ability to launch Gleevec just 32 months after it entered clinical trials. The same rapid development has also been true for many other Novartis drugs. The... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
on the former can hurt the latter. Acquired by NewsCorp in 2005, MySpace exploited the commercial potential of social networking by selling ads to create profit; however, in focusing on commercialization too early it arguably failed to adequately View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
Backlash Against Investment Arbitration, edited by Michael Waibel, Asha Kaushal, Kyo-Hwa Chung, and Claire Balchin. London: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, forthcoming Abstract There are at least three reasons for the current backlash among View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
work—rather than a sporadic trip to the office could prove invaluable in designing flows in and out of a city’s center. Another example: Designers developing new infrastructure for electric vehicles might... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
traditional business practices. Fueled by the Internet, the Information Age allows companies to create infrastructures to connect with their customers electronically. With this connection they can sense their customers' needs in real time... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the slow pace of change? Using a cost-based theoretical framework of bundling due to Evans and Salinger (2005, 2008),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace