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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
herbicides, reducing risk.) In general, Reinhardt asserts, it is market leaders who, by virtue of their power to shape the nature of competition in their industries, can force other firms to follow. Flexing similar muscle are firms with View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
"We're waiting for the cycle to return." Is it possible VCs didn't learn anything from the dot-com bubble and subsequent crash? Marc Fogassa, a principal at Axiom Venture Partners, said, "The industry has a herd effect—if... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
organization functions as an "an engine of innovation," working to define the nature of good teaching, determine the role of technology in education, and influence change in the country's graduate schools of education. Once Match begins... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
that what sets humans apart from animal or artificial intelligence is the empathy that stems from an awareness of the life cycle and of human mortality. Panelist Ray Kurzweil of Kurzweil Technologies... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
receivables financing. Course Content and Educational Objectives The goal of Entrepreneurial Finance is to help managers make better investment and financing decisions in entrepreneurial settings. The course covers all stages of the venture's life View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
increasing geopolitical risks. This was a year of uncertainty: There was a new American president inaugurated; big election cycles in France, Germany, and Italy; and the question of Brexit. You would expect all those things to slow the... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
This brings us full cycle to some of our original questions about consumer generated marketing. Is it really something "new under the sun"? Is it, for marketers, a disruptive technology in its own... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
ranging from minor modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a package we call a "tool kit for customer innovation," deploy new technologies like computer simulation and rapid... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- Web
Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog
capital and receivables financing. Course Content and Educational Objectives The goal of Entrepreneurial Finance is to help managers make better investment and financing decisions in entrepreneurial settings. The course covers all stages of the venture's life View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
Chair of the Finance unit, has spent the past four years investigating ways to help low-income families break out of this cycle and thus gain some of the benefits of being connected to the world of financial services. Programs providing... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- March 2024
- Supplement
Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)
By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
Shipley, N. Louis, Stacy Straaberg, and Tom Quinn. "Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 824-148, March 2024.
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
soil-depleting cycle of pesticides and fertilization. Sacred Seed started with a simple question one of Keen's mentors asked him over 15 years ago: "What are you doing to protect your corn?" But another part of the story is more personal,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
talent pool. Many Web 2.0 developments, including blogs and social networking, grew out of the large number of talented Web-literate workers who lost their jobs after the collapse of the Internet bubble. In addition, technologies and... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami
Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to confront climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas, trends, opportunities, and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
the building manager project on a tablet what your apartment would look like furnished by Mobley. The furniture ultimately becomes a line item added to your monthly bill. That kind of B2B2C play is easily scaled, Ramírez says, but it’s a much longer selling View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or training to his new roles. The View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
was trying to figure out what the future of computing would look like: would serverless technology reach a critical mass, and, when will quantum computing mature? Some days I was talking to the leaders of AWS, IBM, and Cloudflare about... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
peterhowell Summing Up: Is the Current US Economic Expansion Primarily in the Hands of the Fed? New applications of technology and the expansion of the service economy may contribute to prolonged economic expansion. But they represent... View Details