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- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
children. Volvo's latest goal is that no one should die in a Volvo car after 2020. Most firms just quietly test their products and services, receiving the blessing of Underwriters Laboratories, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
No Mistake About It: Trust Is Key in Learning It's a real Catch-22: Learning is more critical than ever to firm success, yet the process often requires making mistakes. And many people believe mistakes lead to failure and thus avoid... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
Porter's talk focused on regional competitiveness and the role of what he terms clusters: geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions in a nation or region. “Productivity and View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in 1972 with research associate... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level policy decisions, whereas CFOs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any capital market benefits observed for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
To construct a house, builders need a firm foundation. For a financial empire, Wall Street wizards need only greed, gullibility, and optimism. The subprime empire began with a tangible structure: a house. For the buyer, that house was a... View Details
- Web
Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
financial contracting to unlock innovation and help transform the social sector. Cases will require rigorous financial and investment analysis, building on and extending skills acquired in the RC finance courses. The landscape is changing... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
do to increase penetration? How can Montague overcome the reputation of folding bicycles as inferior performers and convince consumers, dealers, and others of its bicycle's quality? How can the firm get consumers to even notice the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
best way to intelligently and successfully test and launch innovative corporate growth strategies. Through vivid stories from all walks of life, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading, by Ronald A. Heifetz... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
entrepreneurship over the next two years and beyond. The Early Days of Harlem Capital The Harlem Capital story begins well before that first day on campus. In 2015, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle first joined forces at ICV Partners, a middle-market minority owned private... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
being created, while in others, the stock of technical knowledge that can potentially be transferred into new ventures is locked up in companies. The best example is Japan, where most innovations are generated within research laboratories... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
slavery. Rather, innovation was, in a sense, a byproduct of bondage. The immense control of planters over their slaves enabled the development of management "controls." Slaves became the subjects of management experiments, their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
several Silicon Valley firms as well as a former congressman from the area, spoke about how new concepts of entrepreneurship, leadership, and partnership are emerging from the new business models of the information revolution.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- Web
Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime View Details
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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
a winning tactic. It is not. Often the critical success factor is exactly how a firm goes to market – with its sales force. But the rules have changed – innovations like ‘product-led-growth’ models and... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
(or click-and-collect) channels, much like the pandemic has prompted white-collar firms to seriously consider remote work in a more permanent way. All retailers, from omnichannel to single-channel, need to prioritize View Details