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- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
Click HereIndependent bookstores provide a story of hope by focusing on core values that include community, curation, and convening. (Video by Amelia Kunhardt) When Amazon.com burst onto the nascent online retail scene in 1995, the future... View Details
- 27 Nov 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Secrets for Creating a Long-Lasting Brand
maker Ferrari opens up about how it has bucked industry trends to achieve a world class brand. How Wayfair Built a Furniture Brand from ScratchWhat was once a collection of 240 home furnishing sites is now a single, successful brand,... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
New Firm in a Nascent Industry By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper explores how entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate a firm and a nascent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
students who don’t yet have an idea or whose idea is nascent – focuses on five key areas: unpacking climate solutions, coming up with your idea, leveraging tools to test the viability of your idea, and connecting with fellow climate... View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
cultural entrepreneurship, our study has implications for category emergence and strategic entrepreneurship in nascent industries. Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Search for a Viable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
organizational studies research. We empirically assess this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
a U.S. citizen and considered staying in the United States, which had also begun to feel like home. She explored consulting and private equity as potential paths forward, leveraging MBA internships and exposure to various industries that... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
their houses to total strangers who may or may not be serial killers. Five VC firms rejected the nascent company’s pitch outright, and another two didn’t even bother to reply. “Investors must have thought, who would ever do this?” says... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities to engage in R&D, and export. We find no significant effects for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
History - Entrepreneurship
nascent high technology industry lead to the creation of a Hall of Fame list of disruptive, innovative, landmark companies such as: Fairchild Semiconductor Intel Apple Computer Teledyne Diosonics New Venture... View Details
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
leveraging MBA internships and exposure to various industries that HBS provided. However, she knew creating opportunities in emerging markets was a stronger calling. “Facing inequality and poverty can be depressing, and I could see an... View Details
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Ferreira : Finalist in the 2021 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society (MSOM) Practice Based Research Competition with Emily Mower for "Demand Learning and Pricing for Varying Assortments." Shane M. Greenstein : Winner of the 2021 Ralph Gomory Best View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
charismatic style of presentation along with Polaroid's inviting advertising literature and product packaging bolstered sales. The company's colorful, easy-to-read promotional kits for its glare-free desk lamps, crafted by industrial... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Wang Papers to HBS
Important corporate records from Wang Laboratories and personal papers of the company's late founder and CEO, Dr. An Wang, were recently donated by his family to the Baker Library Historical Collections at HBS. Computer memory technology invented by Dr. Wang helped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
Levitt predicted pervasive standardization, Ghemawat’s paper, “Global Product Standardization? A Case Study and a Model,” shows current reality to be otherwise. Ghemawat has found that a number of industries that seem ripe for strategies... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
found just that in Michigan. At the turn of the twentieth century, Detroit in many ways resembled the Silicon Valley of the last few decades. Growth of the nascent auto industry was explosive, with more than... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Fola Folowosele
as well as the extensive alumni network gave me the opportunity to learn about many industries second hand. I learned a ton through simply grabbing coffee with classmates, calling alumni to learn more about what they did, and going on... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
have succeeded, one is still in its nascent stages, and one is "pivoting," Cook said. In lean-start-up lingo, pivoting means taking a major change of course based on user feedback—the idea being that it's easier to change the... View Details