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- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
listen," said Fialkow, a college dropout who helped create UPromise and a number of other successful ventures. The goal is to get to market as quickly as possible, Fialkow continued. If you have a good idea, put smart people around a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
stake in a number of portfolio companies at Fair Market Value. As they conside whether to exercise their option to purchase Bain Capital's stake in Artisan Entertainment, the company has an extremely successful launch of "The Blair...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
The more fundamental question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software?—Siobhán O'Mahony Similar issues surface in the biotechnology world, where university and View Details
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by Mallory Stark
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
determine whether the practice results in "collusion and monopoly?" In fact, does platform leadership have to be confined to those firms developing technology? Can it just as well be established by marketers who serve as traffic...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in...
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- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
Alibaba is about to make history with the first genuine mega-IPO of a Chinese entrepreneur-founded company in the United States. The numbers are historic as well—an anticipated market capitalization of some $200 billion. It comes to the...
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- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Working PapersDigital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers Authors:John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld Abstract The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
Business, Too Couples with deliberate rituals feel more satisfied with their relationships. Can businesses also benefit? The Ferrari Way Secretive sports car maker Ferrari opens up about how it has bucked industry trends to achieve...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S. View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
Indian software maker Infosys specifically, and other Indian firms more generally.We document the under-studied effect that global product and labor markets can play in the convergence of corporate...
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- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a veteran of doing battle with much larger Microsoft, has some words of wisdom on competing against a market giant: "If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, don't play chess." Glaser, president and...
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by Jim Aisner
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
investments in research and development, was emphasized by several respondents. Mark Hopkinson remarked that "most big companies rely for their tech pipeline of new products on the innovation that comes from small business, acquiring companies, products or rights...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
makers are being put to the test once again. Flooding money markets on Sunday (3/13) with ¥15 trillion (about $183 billion) was a sensible first step by the Bank of Japan, but the real challenge lies ahead....
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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
was spurred by high profits. Typical cable systems outside the top 100 markets earned rates of return on net investment (before taxes and interest expense) over 40 percent. 9 Wired Cities: 1970-1975 (10) With industry growth surging...
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- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
estimate how fast we were growing," he said. When an audience member asked about the future of the nation's banking system, Rajan listed five potential areas for improvement: the banking structure ("We're creating more opportunities for banks and creating...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
such as support for schools, health centers, sewage disposal, and forest preservation — to be socially responsible within that setting." A series of cases on the Haier Group describes a Chinese refrigerator and white goods maker...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
that are unavoidable consequences of survival strategies on the part of retailers. The new retail landscape requires strategic thinking not just from retailers and landlords but from policy makers as well.
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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
2014 Harvard Business Review Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business By: Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—When Google bought Nest, a maker of digital thermostats, for $3.2 billion...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
that a monopolistic market maker is able to extract from impatient investors. The mechanism for trade is a limit order, and immediacy is supplied when the limit order is executed. We show that limit orders...
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Martha Lagace