Firm Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

Funding the Design of Livable CitiesAs a burgeoning global population migrates to the world's urban centers, it's crucial to design livable cities that function with scarce natural resources. John Macomber discusses the critical connection between real estate financing... View Details

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was slow in coming. At the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

Island, an innovative private equity firm established by Glenn Hutchins, MBA 1983, (previously cofounder of Silver Lake and a fellow Harvard alum). Our vision is to improve on traditional private equity by... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

15 Nov 2016
News

Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success

companies prevalent in German-speaking countries—has long captured the attention of global business practitioners and scholars. Why are these firms so competitive globally, particularly in emerging markets, and how have they managed to... View Details

28 Mar 2018
News

Fueling the Future

recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

Profile

Dan Vallone

School, I was primarily interested in finance—that’s why I did my summer internship in investment banking. My larger ambition was to help underserved and underbanked communities gain greater access to capital. My firm was great—a... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government

24 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Nancy Huang (HBS ’96), Director of Outreach, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Describe your organization in three to five sentences. The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Jan 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

misused to replace higher-paid Americans with entry-level workers from abroad, mainly India. Its use is largely confined to high-tech firms with substantial coding needs. That is the sense of responses to this month’s column. How you feel... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms’ incentives... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

Dillon, and David S. Duncan Abstract—Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2006
News

Enron’s Legacy

today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders of public companies. Maintaining ethical... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

Profile

Georges F. Doriot

of HBS graduates—more than 7000 second-year students took his transformative Manufacturing course—and in 1946, Doriot created the first venture capital firm in the United States. American Research & Development (ARD), based in... View Details

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West German Family Firms (1960-2008)." Author:Christina Lubinski Publication:Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 55, no. 2 (2010) Abstract Large family View Details

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

2016 Berrett-Koehler Publishers Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Susan Salter Reynolds Abstract—Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Foundry AI Lab Entrepreneurial Management Thomas Eisenmann , Shikhar Ghosh Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study Entrepreneurial Management Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Field Course: Innovating in Health... View Details

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Philip Hendrickson | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Full Transcript (PDF) Philip “Phil” Hendrickson graduated from HBS in 1947. After a brief stint with a manufacturing firm in Massachusetts, he joined Krueger International, a small furniture business in his home state of Wisconsin. Under... View Details

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

decades have generated rich empirical data on firms and business systems that can confirm or challenge many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines. Business history has broadened its scope in the last two... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

Profile

Casey Gerald

“Truth is, there weren’t a lot of kids around me going to an Ivy League school.” Initially “convinced” he would become a lawyer, a summer internship within a law firm “quickly disabused me of the idea.” Investment banking came next,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Retail; Nonprofit / Government

01 Oct 1999
News

Running on empty

Does an invention that would guarantee motorists they'd never run out of gas sound like a good investment? Hundreds of venture capital firms didn't think so, but that didn't stop Maryland retiree William Hubbard (MBA '49), a former... View Details

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