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The Academy of Fisticuffs

The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

The Discipline of Business Experimentation

The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not adhere to scientific and statistical principles. As... View Details

31 Aug 2021
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Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

immediate environment. We are in it together, and none of us forever. This knowledge gives you bulletproof criteria to assess who deserves to be entrusted with power: not those who give you the illusion of safety and self-esteem by View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

Steven Kramer) and I were doing an exploratory study of daily diaries we had collected from 238 people in twenty-six teams working on creative projects in seven different companies. The diaries were in the form of answers to a brief daily... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2022
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COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

11 Apr 2012
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The High Risks of Short-Term Management

profits (or worse, the short-term benefits come at the expense of long-term value creation). This phenomenon does not come out of the blue, but is attributable to fundamental frictions in capital markets related to the uncertainty of future outcomes. The longer the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care

Teisberg. Competition and the Intersection of Industry and Policy is at the heart of Professor Leemore Dafny’s research which examines competitive interactions among payers and providers of health care services. Her current projects... View Details

24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

then settled in New York and joined the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore for a short stint until a high school friend convinced him to consult on a project in their home country. “Serendipity works in strange ways,” observes Ogunlesi, who... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

framework to identify the role of regional clusters-groups of closely related and complementary industries operating within a particular region-in regional economic performance. We exploit newly available data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Baker Library Special Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education Faculty & Research Initiatives &... View Details

05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

Weitz No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-125.pdf PublicationsMulti-Rater Assessment of Individual Creative Contributions to Team Projects in Organizations Author:Teresa M.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

Resources and instructional videos for company and industry financial analysis, stock pitching, Business Analysis & Valuation Using Financial Statements (BAV), Investment Management and Capital Markets, Projects in... View Details

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Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care delivery thinking, but can also serve as a platform for other efforts by universities to contribute to local or national health care reform. It opens the potential for field projects in which students and faculty work with delivery... View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Operations Management) Regina Herzlinger , Ben Creo Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Field Course: Investing for Impact (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Archie L. Jones , Emily R. McComb , Brian Trelstad , Gerald Chertavian Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

study its internal innovation accelerator, Genesis Labs. Launched in 2017, the program sought out the sort of high-risk, high-reward projects that tend to get screened out of the typical R&D process. It succeeded in generating a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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Accelerating the Accelerator: Raja Al Mazrouei at DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards and Lydia Begag

In January 2023, Raja Al Mazrouei became the Managing Director and Acting CEO of Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) in Dubai, UAE. In her previous role as the Executive Vice President of the DIFC Fintech Hive, she successfully built and led an accelerator program for... View Details

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About - Business History

rhythm of history when the cake of custom must be broke, when that disruptive, innovating energy is socially advantageous and must be given freer opportunity.” The impact of historical perspective—innovative, disruptive, secular—continues to shape teaching, research,... View Details

24 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello & Rosilene Marcon; Banking

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The Baby Business: How Markets are Changing the Future of Birth

By: Debora L. Spar

It is difficult to conceive of the child as commerce. For even at the start of the 21st century, we like to believe that some things remain beyond both markets and science; that there are some things that money can't buy. In economic terms, these things are defined as... View Details

August 2021
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Mylestone: Can Multiple Pivots Preserve the Life of a Death Tech Startup?

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner

Dave Balter and Jim Myers co-founded Mylestone, a death tech startup that applied technology to transform how grieving people memorialize the dead. The startup addressed a cultural problem and promised to solve a pressing need in the antiquated, multi-billion dollar... View Details