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  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who has held top executive positions at some eight technology-based start-ups. If failure refers to failing to see the projected return on investment, then the failure rate is 70 to 80 percent. View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • March 2022 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Doubling Down: Elon Musk's Big Bets in 2022

By: David Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
2021 was a banner year for Elon Musk. CEO of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, the aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, and a few smaller startups, Musk became the richest person on Earth after Tesla reached a market capitalization of $1 trillion and SpaceX a private... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Transportation; Strategic Planning; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Aerospace Industry; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; United States; Europe; China
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  • 16 Jan 2018
  • Blog Post

How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

are the top six tips from the experts in our Financial Aid office. 1. Learn about how financial aid works at business schoolHBS financial aid is primarily need-based. You will submit your HBS financial aid application after you are... View Details
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-062.pdf 'Fit': Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting, Incentives and Creative Worker Performance Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract We present the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Marketing - Faculty & Research

evolving, with applications including synthetic data generation, data analysis, and more. However, their role in creative ideation—a cornerstone of consumer research—remains underexplored. Drawing on the... View Details
  • 2015
  • Chapter

Negotiations: Statistical Aspects

By: James K. Sebenius
'Negotiation analysis' seeks to develop prescriptive theory and useful advice for negotiators and third parties. It generally emphasizes the parties' underlying interests, alternatives to negotiated agreement, approaches to productively manage the inherent tension... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants
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  • Web

Program Details - Doctoral

Programs Office staff. Harvard University Summer Research Village Support. Guidence and support from the HUSRV staff. RESEARCH PROJECTS Former summer projects are featured in the Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village Abstract Book... View Details
  • April 2007 (Revised October 2007)
  • Background Note

An Overview of Project Finance & Infrastructure Finance - 2006 Update

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance, and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2002 to 2006. Examples of project-financed investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon... View Details
Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure; Investment; Projects; Trends
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  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

and solutions applicable to organizations of all shapes and sizes to help them put effective teaming into practice. The book synthesizes 20 years of research. View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 03 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

100,000-square-foot coworking space that is one of the largest of its kind in the United States. The facility hosts companies focused on financial technology, marketing technology, and software development,... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Michel Pham, Columbia University

  • October 2016
  • Case

Triangulate: Stay, Pivot or Exit?

By: Thomas Eisenmann, Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton
Sunil Nagaraj, Triangulate's founder had spent a few years trying to launch a dating application that matched users based on their behavior on social media. Based on input from advisors, the company changed its focus from a B2B site to a B2C dating site with a unique... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage; Pivot; Two Sided Markets; Business Model; Business Exit or Shutdown; Product Launch; Venture Capital; Failure; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; United States; North America
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New Venture Competition - Alumni

recording here KEY STEPS APPLY . Application opened October 1, 2024 and closes January 31, 2025. Submit early! You can update your submission up until the deadline. CONNECT . Apply to one of 6 global regions... View Details
  • 14 Dec 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Brian Tomlin, Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 08 Jun 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: June 8

    leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing solutions for application storage systems. It also shows how Coughran assembled an... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Roberto Verganti

      Roberto Verganti (rverganti@hbs.edu) is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the View Details

      Keywords: software; software; software; software; software; software; software; software; software; software; software; software; software; software; software
      • March 2019
      • Article

      A Structural Analysis of the Role of Superstars in Crowdsourcing Contests

      By: Shunyuan Zhang, Param Singh and Anindya Ghose
      We investigate the long-term impact of competing against superstars in crowdsourcing contests. Using a unique 50-month longitudinal panel data set on 1677 software design crowdsourcing contests, we illustrate a learning effect where participants are able to improve... View Details
      Keywords: Crowdsourcing Contests; Superstar Effect; Bayesian Learning; Utility; Economics Of Information System; Dynamic Structural Model; Dynamic Programming; Markov Chain; Monte Carlo; Learning; Competition; Performance Improvement
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      • December 2021
      • Case

      Burning Glass Technologies: From Data to Product

      By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Klopfenstein
      In May 2021, Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a company that provided labor market analytics for a variety of markets, navigates his company’s transition from data company to product company. Burning Glass originated as a service that used artificial... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Expansion; Business Strategy; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Search; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Employees; Retention; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Model; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States
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      • 23 Nov 2021
      • Book

      What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

      Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft who assumed the reigns of the software giant at a juncture when growth had plateaued and ennui enshrouded the mission. Nadella undertook a speedy cultural transformation at the... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman