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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Commit deeply to the ideal of entrepreneurship first, and only then to a particular business model or product. That combination of commitment and flexibility can help founders react nimbly to market feedback, abandoning products and... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the firm and for the manager. A parsimonious View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- June 2020
- Teaching Plan
Chief
By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen
Teaching Plan serves as a supplement to the case for “Chief: Role for Carolyn Childers” (920-019), “Chief: Role for Lindsay Kaplan” (920-020), and “Scaling at Chief” (920-021). View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Agreements and Arrangements; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Demographics; Gender; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Competition; Finance; Capital; Venture Capital; Service Industry; Service Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
although the real world outcome ends up being quite close to the prediction of a model that assumes everyone is identical," he says. "But students aren't going to take your word for that. They'll believe the assumptions are... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
been diligent in filing lawsuits—they’re filing plenty of lawsuits. But Uber is fighting back. Often the company’s strategy has been to delay regulators’ every complaint, trying to get their service that much more entrenched so it will be... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
season and what it will take to win over anxious customers. Here's what they said. Jill J. Avery: Mind the details and focus on customer service Persistent unemployment plagues many families, and people are saving more and spending less... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
“but they are impeded in this effort by working to a model that does not adequately recognize their central limitation — time and knowledge.” Much of the book’s content is drawn from the authors’ extensive experience working with and... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
base, which is a pretty fun group. They work hard, they're extremely ambitious, they demand access and they want to be celebrated and they want to have some fun. Oh, and they want to give back. And so in this organization we each pledged 76 hours of View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
professor Tom Eisenmann, who also serves on the board of OneMain.com, one of the nation's ten largest Internet service providers, and on the advisory boards of many Internet start-ups. Eisenmann's definition of the get-big-fast strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
profitability of a vertically integrated monopoly. We then use our model to compare open and closed standards regimes, to understand how commoditization affects a cluster, to determine the relative profits of platform firms and firms that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
having it deliver to customers integrated technology services that would build and manage all aspects of their IT strategy-even if it meant incorporating products made by IBM's competitors. In an expanding technology market that offered a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
through a combination of collaborative network building and customized advisory services. CGTI's hybrid business model and dual mission of profit and social value creation complicated the founders' decisions as they considered different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
professor of strategy at HBS. It is also important because the two countries have embraced very different models of development. The biggest source of worry is the state of China's banking sector, which is technically insolvent.—Yasheng... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
countries. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf Open vs. Integrated Innovation: A Model of Discovery and Confinement Authors:Esteve Almirall and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Abstract We present a simple formal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, and activist investors believe Fink’s push toward the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
world: dot-coms, dot-com enablers (technology and service providers), and "wannadots" (established companies seeking to incorporate the Internet into their activities). These organizations must find ways to thrive in a digital age that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
graduates to think in terms of win-win solutions. “If you can try to recognize the other person’s perspective and craft a solution that wins for both sides,” he said, “you’ll create a much longer-term model of success.” At Commencement... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
is increasingly being called on to be part of the solution. How business can do this most effectively is the focus of the GPP's research and scholarly activity. Multinationals Leading The Way While GPP faculty note that it is too early to declare any View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is differentiated from others’, and whether you are fulfilling the needs of your target market. It’s... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
assume that all the smart people in the world are born within a 20-mile radius of their headquarters." This last factor—of being able to develop and diffuse innovation rapidly around the world—has emerged to become much more important as companies constantly renew... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna