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- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
says. Sundance Institute. Founder Robert Redford's contribution in legitimizing indie films is akin to what James Beard did for American food. Sundance made indies and the different stories depicted in the genre more acceptable by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
purple” (the company’s primary logo color) culture marked by a get-it-done ethos and disregard for external signifiers, including race, gender, and company status. Everyone mattered. Everyone had the agency and obligation to contribute in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
funds have made an important contribution to both the democratization and the strengthening of the American economy," says HBS professor Jay O. Light, an expert on the financial services industry. And now, according to Light and... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
so that you can read it cover to cover or slice and dice it like a playlist. You can read it backwards. You can just read about Wall Street or consumption or the end of the social contract. You can make the book yours as you choose.... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
morning on October 12, 2020, a home security system captured a moment that would go viral on social media. [knocking] Bob Wilson: Paul? JH: Bob Wilson and his wife Mary had walked across the street to his colleague Paul Milgrom’s house to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
remember Doriot vividly. He stressed commonsense themes such as self-improvement, teamwork, and contributing to society, while spicing up his philosophy with practical and pithy words of advice: “A real courageous man is a man who does... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets than accepted applicants immediately prior to application and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
consumer, today’s competition, and the wealth of media at your disposal. In-depth discussion highlights the field’s ever-increasing connectivity, with practical guidance on brand design and storytelling, social media marketing, branding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Clinton’s advance staff, experience launching a low-cost airline in China, and time at UBS Warburg’s London office. Ogden, whose CV includes various roles in finance and the nonprofit sector, worked most recently for Bridges Ventures, a London-based venture-capital... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
they tend to be thematically the ways that really stand out in each of those periods. And then there's another set of innovations that are social and cultural in nature. They don't necessarily conform to the dominant narrative. Quite... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
sharing by default, but this can hardly explain why freeriding is so pervasive. Similarly, some p2p applications such as BitTorrent force users to share, but users can always decide how much to share and ultimately control their View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53388 Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, Joel Goh, and Ehsan Valavi Abstract—Problem Definition: Farmers face several challenges in agricultural supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
and think I'm contributing to pushing the envelope in Africa, and accelerating our progress, that is exciting. On the low side, it is still very much an unstructured environment in many ways. There are laws that aren't fully applied or... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transfor ation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of U.S. innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual U.S. patent records to explore these trends in greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
evolved without guidance and has no inherent logic. So channel management is often cosmetic and rarely affects channel design, even though channel design often contributes to the problems that require managing. Companies need a new... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently, teaches the "Large-Scale... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
that the temptation for individuals and organizations to take steps that benefit themselves, rather than the broader social good, is universal and minimizing that danger. Q: When governments do attempt to spur venture capital and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
call out “bingo.” The faculty frowned on this disruption. To meet this challenge, the rules were again changed, and you had to be called on and work the word “bingo” into your participation in the classroom discussion. Some efforts were a real stretch. For example, one... View Details