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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
investing is like Internet investing. They think, 'It's gonna happen fast, and it's just gonna happen.' And the answer is no, it's not gonna be fast, and it might even not happen.” There are a couple of key differences that make the various clean-tech View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
on the third floor of Palladio Hall, a handsomely renovated Renaissance-style building located in the inner-city neighborhood of Roxbury. Mardie Oakes sits in a cubicle near high windows that let in the noise of sirens and city buses... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell and this is the third and final episode of “Out of the Valley,” a Skydeck mini-series that explores the past, present, and future of... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
education from Classes VI - VIII, a second phase of two years of vocational training, and a third phase of asking the children to pay back any loans with accrued interest. We intend to offer the product through a series of partnerships... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
http://hbr.org/product/the-novartis-malaria-initiative/an/314103-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-082 Managing Change at Axis Bank (A) Axis Bank is India's third largest private sector bank. In April... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular authority about the strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
very little about adaptation, which is affecting all of us today, and as I explore my own path within climate tech, I wanted to make sure I understand the full breadth of problems and opportunities. Lessons from two speakers from the View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
encourage partners to collaborate across the firm to serve clients' increasingly global and complex needs. In 2007, under Smith's leadership, the partnership agreed to implement holistic change, which included shifting from geographical to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
growth and the transformation of knowledge into new products and processes. A third reviews different innovation policies and their performance in the pharmaceutical sector. Next is a chapter on the effects of competition policy on... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Clearly, my effort to frame the discussion around just the third question failed. As George Olsen said, "A lot of the people posting to this discussion appear to have missed the point." But responses have prompted me to wonder... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Glass (MBA 1994), a serial entrepreneur and co-owner of an esports team, explains, “Esports is the most gigantic industry that nobody’s ever heard of.” Bjerg, third from left, and Team SoloMid compete in a League of Legends tournament in... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
foreseeing obstacles to building a startup in the defense sector in the mid-2010s. Ryan had been persuaded to join the endeavor after hearing the enthusiasm of the scores of potential users Brandon interviewed prior to launch. But the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, historians have agreed that this was Hitler’s gravest mistake. In Hitler’s Great Gamble, James Ellman... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
bureaucracy, and decision-making hurdles can all interfere with early public sector adoption of even the most worthy innovation, he says. This slower-than-expected adoption and diffusion may have surprised the leaders of OLPC. "I... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
rating agency after it was selected by the third party. Q: You note in your book that loan securitization collapsed at the end of 2008. Has it revived yet, and why is it important for a healthy economy? A: The monthly volume of... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
part time. ”I have now been to 10 countries in Africa in three years, and often times feel more comfortable here than I do in my other home, the USA.” With the acquisition of two universities (Cavendish in Uganda and Zambia) and a significant investment in a View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
research in China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Poland, and the US indicates increasing pressure on these basic resources - and worsening inability of governments to self-fund investment in advance. Hence, there are increasingly more and better opportunities... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that fiscal spending shocks appear to significantly dampen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
proving to be inefficient and were drains on the public treasury. Business would do well to support improvements in the system that purports to protect their investments abroad. The Thatcher and Reagan revolutions in the industrialized countries led to new views toward... View Details