by Walter Kuemmerle - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

lets them make mistakes at those times when they can still afford it. Growth, when it comes, is all the more sustainable as a result. GovWorks's failure is a textbook example of the perils of grandiosity.— Walter View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

"Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad," Walter Kuemmerle looks at changes in the research & development function in the global economy. A centralized R&D approach will no longer... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

Ever wanted to judge a Harvard Business Review case study? Here's your chance. In its June issue, Harvard Business Review published an account of the fictional company, DataClear, authored by Harvard Business School associate professor... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

03 Jan 2014
News

Book Review: 'Fortune Tellers' by Walter Friedman

Walter B. Wriston

Soon after assuming the presidency, Wriston built Citibank into the nation’s second largest bank in terms of total assets. He was instrumental in the convergence of Citibank and the First National City Corporation (Citicorp) which by 1976... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Walter S. Gifford

to 28.5 million. In 1927, Gifford launched his firm’s overseas operations and by 1948, 72 foreign countries were linked by wire and radio with Bell lines. View Details

Keywords: Communications

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

time when Professor Malcolm McNair invited him to do so, despite Walter not having yet been appointed assistant professor at least that is the way I remember my attendance that day in the second-year elective course, Retailing. I was... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Portrait Project

Walter Frye

will put my family first, and treat my friends like family. And, I will honor my predecessors – who championed civil rights, battled discrimination, and made ultimate sacrifices – by exploiting every opportunity to learn, every... View Details

Walter R. Young, Jr.

allowing the company to make some strategic acquisitions, and this growth has continued throughout Young’s term. By 1996, Champion was the number two company in both the mid-size motor coach and manufactured housing industries. View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

Christensen and Walter Kiechel, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publishing, to discuss these and other questions confronting business leaders today. Kiechel: You've spoken of high-tech companies, Intel included, moving... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

book excerpt Forecasters From the introduction of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's Economic Forecasters By Walter A. Friedman This is a book about a group of entrepreneurs who, like Evangeline Adams,... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge, both explicit and tacit, that is stored in the heads and hands of... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

cash. You change a coin or bill. Am I right? Now, sir, this register* makes the entries. The indication* of the transaction shows through this glass.* The amount* of the last recorded transaction is always visible, and the records are made View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

and growth. That triumph can be attributed to the Valley's distinctive geography, history, and culture. Why The Triumph Viewing the valley from the flight approach to San Francisco International, one is struck by how small the region is.... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

01 Oct 2001
News

A Janus-Faced Reflection

businesses. He had a long association with the Literacy Volunteers of New York City and currently serves on the board of the Volunteer Consulting Group. Kiechel lives with his wife, Eugenia Dunstan, and their son in Hoboken,New Jersey; their daughter is a sophomore at... View Details

Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

financing private ventures, it can also offer unique rewards. Harvard Business School associate professor Walter Kuemmerle highlighted some of the issues confronting entrepreneurs and investors in a case... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

turn, winning breeds greater confidence and raises the company to an even higher level. Building organizational confidence, especially in turnaround situations where organizations have been on losing streaks, is the work of leaders. Leaders must instill confidence... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel