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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
placed a bet that the US government would intervene. When class action lawsuits began popping up in several states, Newcombe knew she had the catalyst she needed. A few months after she placed the trade, the company issued a profit... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
being transferred from people that support the Greek economy to people that bet against it, through sorting of stocks and derivatives. Why am I not focusing on what everybody else is talking about, the country's debt? Because I am less... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
policy, scale, and entrenched competition have erected formidable barriers to entry. The major global giants like Amazon and eBay have either exited the market or not even tried to enter it. Thus, think of Alibaba as a pure China play where you are View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
my bet is that 2037 will be very different as well. And this will be due to entrepreneurs, not private equity funds or public company boards." This may be linked, as D. R. Elliott suggested, to the rise in the "knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
they may have lived through some years of particularly bad returns. This tends to make investors more cautious. Interestingly, fund managers older than forty—just old enough to have lived through the 1987 crash—were particularly unlikely to View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inflection point in industrial capitalism, in which there's been widespread exuberance and some bad bets made to this point, but in which a range of more positive outcomes are on the way. Lorsch: To me, the trouble began in Silicon Valley... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
architect of the course, emphasized the idea that capitalists could be defined as people who "put bets on the future"—by, for instance, making investments, opening sales campaigns, and founding new firms. The subject of forecasting, I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
and most important, a minimum standard of living. Friedman, on the other hand, while advocating a strong government role in maintaining a strong defense and the enforcement of antitrust laws, placed his primary bets on the individual.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
still growing-but now at a much slower pace. In 2004, TSMC entered the China market, the world's second largest for semiconductors, by building a fabrication plant in Shanghai. Was China the market opportunity in which TSMC could bet on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
trend of overspending prior to the dot-com fallout, saying that venture capital firms must make more independent decisions these days. "You're making bets that are not obvious, that are not apparent to everyone in the industry. It... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
more risk in projects by limiting their use of “cost-plus” agreements, which make it easier to overcharge government agencies, according to researchers. This renegotiation of contractual terms allows the agency to hedge its bet with a... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
many more products than the average business, and face the challenge of having to manage a large, constantly changing product portfolio.” One solution to that challenge, Elberse says, is for executives to consider a “blockbuster strategy,” making large View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
economy and lower-income consumers. Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence Technology was getting dull earlier this decade, says David Yoffie. But the sudden arrival of digital convergence has turned the tech world upside down. What are the right View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
Sponsor of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the Official dairy supplier of the games, it is betting that the brand can go further beyond China. Will the day that tykes from Topeka have a bottle of Yili milk in their hands be coming... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
genetically modified foods in Europe. Betting the company on a "life sciences" vision, Shapiro had sold or spun off Monsanto's traditional chemical businesses and moved aggressively to acquire seed companies. Dazzled by the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
cost? Yes, it probably would be worth it, she says. Should Hollywood sue Bollywood production houses to fight plagiarism? This bet can be a lost cause for American studios. After showing a couple of scenes of the Bollywood version of the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
most want to help you. They think you want to make the world a better place, [so] they make a bet on you, and are your first employee, your first customer.” Satchu stresses the importance for entrepreneurs to explore new ideas, even those... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
that made dozens of seed investments in technology-focused startups. Pitched as an event that could pack a year's worth of networking into a single day, Founder Field Day was perhaps the firm's largest bet to date. On a spring day in May... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne