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- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
PeopleImages Convicted stockbroker Bernie Madoff knew exactly what he was doing when he stole billions from clients, yet the financial advisor didn’t pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
of each other,” Lerner says. “We spent literally years reconstructing the chains from one entity to the next, and from year to year.” Finally, View Details
- January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Lean Forward Media
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Early Childhood Education;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Management Practices and Processes;
Risk Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Opportunities;
Creativity
Amabile, Teresa M., and Victoria Winston. "Lean Forward Media." Harvard Business School Case 805-063, January 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
dozens of proposals for projects. Value-based strategy teaches how to select among these ideas and projects. The most successful firms are very strict: Unless an idea creates...
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by Danielle Kost
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
0.5 percent of the US workforce was furloughed during this downturn. Many firms announced furloughs at the start View Details
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage climate tech start-ups. The firm’s portfolio companies focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 2.5Gt by 2050, and range from...
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- 2014
- Working Paper
Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940
By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It explores the emergence of numerous German, Danish, and other European...
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Environmental Entrepreneurship;
Business History;
Entrepreneurship;
Health;
History;
Green Technology Industry;
Germany;
Denmark;
Hungary;
United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-084, March 2014.
- 29 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
- Web
Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
can be flexible in terms of structure and duration, according to each business’ needs. Ideal candidates for investment have at least $250,000 in revenues. At the present time,...
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- Web
Alumnae Circles - Alumni
commitment strengthens the group’s relationships and enhances the sense of support within the Circle. *While the...
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- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
Companies face a growing yet largely undetected threat to their worker productivity, employee retention and, ultimately, competitive advantage: the needs of employees who are caregivers. View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- News
Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn The Wall Street Journal reported this week that health care giant CVS has agreed to purchase Oak Street Health, a “network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare” that was cofounded by Geoffrey Price (MBA 2010),...
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- 30 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Housing Collateral, Credit Constraints, and Entrepreneurship-Evidence from a Mortgage Reform
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
such a product exactly as it exists in other countries, you would likely be in violation of both state lottery laws and federal banking regulations. Fortunately, one can test the View Details
- January 2008
- Article
Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices....
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Investment;
Innovation and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Prejudice and Bias;
Value Creation
Christensen, Clayton M., Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih. "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
- Research Summary
Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations
It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and...
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Research - Private Capital Project
Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo 2023 Book Chapter Private Equity Financing By: Victoria Ivashina The goal of this chapter is to understand the common practices View Details
- 15 Sep 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists’ Participation in Commercial Science
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Applied Business Analytics
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Business Analytics has become a core function in many firms today and is driving innovation in the form of new business and operating models. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding of statistics, computer...
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- February 2024
- Teaching Note
Accelerating with Caution: Forecasting and Managing birddogs' Growth (A) and (B)
By: Mark Egan
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 224-023 and 224-024. As 2017 was drawing to a close, birddogs’ founder and CEO, Peter Baldwin, was working with his CFO Jack Sullivan to prepare for 2018. A nascent direct-to-consumer apparel brand, birddogs had carved its niche in men’s...
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