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- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
With online crowd votes from more than 1,200 alumni and MBA students, the winners of the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition have been crowned. Winner of the crowd-voted Most Innovative and Greatest Impact categories is York Street... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Cyberposium 16
The company wasn’t running on fumes, the fumes were gone,” said Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (MBA ’85), describing his first desperate days at the firm that has now become a wildly successful online personalized radio service with 65 million... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/918402-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-039 An Innovative Anti-bribery Commitment? A company commits to providing investors a 200% return on their investment if either the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
worried about the ascendance of China, while firms in Taiwan and Hong Kong have reaped enormous benefits from Chinese economic expansion, according to Huang. He presented his new research proposal to an audience of faculty and doctoral... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Harvard’s initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and innovative computing. The colloquium featured a number of case studies about academic labs as well as private-sector View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
Are Uber drivers and HourlyNerd consultants independent contractors or employees? Interesting question, but the wrong one. Better to ask: Are we stifling innovation across the digital economy by forcing a simplistic choice, contractor vs.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
The firm has also innovated in sourcing capital from a variety of limited partners. Blackstone's culture of centralized investment processes and risk management coupled with entrepreneurial leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
founders of firms that collectively have an indelible impact on the world economy by creating jobs, fostering prosperity, and bringing innovative products and services to market.” In addition to measuring... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
computer to access data stored on another and to interact with that information. As he publicized his innovation among his fellow employees and across the computing community, people admired the quality of his work. In fact, in... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
always want to hear that a person is struggling, nor do they necessarily reward risk taking, even though they might pay lip service to innovative initiative. The authors outline several steps that individuals can take to shake off fear... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
PublicationsThe Strategic Use of Brand Biographies Authors:Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, and Juliet Schor Publication:Research in Consumer Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of a brand biography to describe an emerging trend in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog
competition, even confrontation, between the US and China, and the interdependence of technology and digital markets. We will look at how firms confront markets and politics in technological innovation and... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
Abstract This paper presents an endogenous growth model that explains the evolution of the first and second moments of productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
Abstract—General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Great Firms to Fail, which sounded the alarm on how disruptive innovations — such as the personal computer and discount retailers — caused many otherwise strong and healthy companies to fail. The Innovator’s... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
wind? How will local residents feel about windmill farms on their horizon? What effects will regulators have on the energy industry in the future? What unexpected opportunities or obstacles will pop up along the way? The course examines strategic choices faced by View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
They must also allow people to interact and bond with each other—to feel the camaraderie of being a part of a team. They must enable people to keep learning and to find ways of exercising their curiosity and expressing their own ideas—to feel like they can View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
More than half of organizations at risk The authors found one somewhat encouraging result: About half the firms fix severe vulnerabilities within a year and routinely make it to the “frontier” of updates, switching to new software... View Details