A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2020
News

How to Be an Inclusive Leader Through a Crisis

24 Oct 2016
News

Meet the Billionaires of Thailand's Red Bull Fortune

17 Jul 2017
News

‘The Wisdom of Finance’, by Mihir Desai

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

hard for them to accept the fact that a lot of the debt obligation is for commitments that have already been made—things like social security, disability benefits, and Medicaid. That said, I am reminded... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

that the two companies should at all times pay dividends of equivalent value in sterling and guilders. There were two head offices—in London and Rotterdam—and two chairmen. Until 1996 the "chief... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

05 Jul 2023
Cold Call Podcast

How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Retail; Consumer Products

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

publishes summaries of working papers written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS

graduation. The choices, the opportunities, the privileges of being an EC at Harvard Business School could... View Details

25 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

make a precise bid, the targets are more likely to accept it, and more likely to accept it at a cheaper price. And with cash bids, they’ll generate View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jul 2017
News

Fund managers challenged to confront lack of ethnic diversity

09 Mar 2018
News

Want to Hear a Great Leader In Action? They Will Often Say These 3 Things

26 Apr 2024
HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

subordinates accountable, but they have no clue how to do that,” says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson in explaining what drew him to study Sanders’... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

13 Aug 2014
News

The Reason Uber and Lyft Are Accusing Each Other of Sabotage

2017
Working Paper

Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

This report builds on the foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the late... View Details

Keywords: Industry Clusters; Development Economics

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30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

16 Jan 2019
News

What is the true cost of caregiving on the workforce?

09 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads

The Super Bowl isn’t just a mainstage for football’s two best teams. With over 100 million viewers tuned in, and 30-second spots going for more than $5 million, the big game also represents one of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Telecommunications

2016
Working Paper

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Modern Administrative State, 1912–1925: Trade Associations, Codes of Fair Competition, and State Building

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber's history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy-making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Competition; United States