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    NoamWasserman.com

    Noam's research focuses on the early, often difficult decisions founders face that can make or break their startups.  This site includes his long-time research blog, resources tied to his Founders' Dilemmas course and his book (The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Designing Online Marketplaces: Trust and Reputation Mechanisms

    By: Michael Luca
    Online marketplaces have proliferated over the past decade, creating new markets where none existed. By reducing transaction costs, online marketplaces facilitate transactions that otherwise would not have occurred and enable easier entry of small sellers. One central... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; E-commerce; Market Design
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    • 2016
    • Book

    Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents

    By: William C. Kirby and Marijk C. van der Wende
    This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model... View Details
    Keywords: International And Comparative Education; Educational Policy And Politics; Science Education; Arts; Global Range; Education; Science
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    • November 2008 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    The Bridgespan Group: Chapter 2

    By: Allen S. Grossman, Naomi Greckol-Herlich and Cathy Ross
    The Bridgespan Group was launched in 2000 by management consulting group Bain & Company as a nonprofit focused on strategy consulting for nonprofits and philanthropists. Over the next eight years, Bridgespan expanded its services to include executive search, knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Consulting Industry
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      Myra M. Hart

      Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

      Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
      • 21 Feb 2007
      • Op-Ed

      What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

      experimentally with a small staff, focusing specifically on those countries or regions that have received little or no direct foreign investment. It would bridge the gap that now exists between... View Details
      Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
      • 29 Oct 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

      drew large crowds of shoppers who came to see the entrepreneur, have a makeover, and sample her products. She had learned early on that touching her customers was a very effective way of establishing a... View Details
      Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
      • 05 Feb 2024
      • What Do You Think?

      How Do You Hire for Attitude?

      learning? What do you want to learn on this job? What do you feel you can teach others on this job? Of course, every organization is different. Hiring practices have to be View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett

        Benjamin C. Esty

        Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

        Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
        • November 2012 (Revised March 2013)
        • Case

        Talking Strategy at Greighton Partners

        By: Boris Groysberg and Kerry Herman
        Since its inception, London-based private equity firm Greighton Partners had managed over $15 billion in investor capital. The firm employed about 150 professionals around the globe and had completed over 175 company acquisitions since its founding. Started with a... View Details
        Keywords: Private Equity; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Asia; Europe
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        • November 2001 (Revised September 2002)
        • Case

        Four Products: Predicting Diffusion

        By: John T. Gourville
        One of the critical tasks in the marketing of new innovations is predicting demand and rates of diffusion for those products. Focuses on four innovative products from different domains. Although one can speculate on the scope and rate of diffusion for each of these... View Details
        Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Innovation and Invention; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Technology Adoption
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        • Research Summary

        Overview

        Abigail's research to date has focused on the financial accounting standard setting process. Specifically, her current projects investigate the impacts of regulator backgrounds, constituent preferences, and lobbying incentives in the determination of US GAAP. Her... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Accounting; Political Economy; Capital Markets; Fair Value Accounting; Disclosure; International Accounting Standards
        • Research Summary

        Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Business of the Arts

        By: Rohit Deshpande
        A more recent research program focuses on creating and managing ventures connected with the arts and culture. This research extends the concept of Customer-Centricity into the context of Audience Engagement. This primarily case-based work explores how successful... View Details
        • March 2021
        • Supplement

        CashDrop (B1)

        By: Rembrand Koning, Paul A. Gompers and Sarah Gulick
        After the events in CashDrop A, Flores-Martinez received two concrete offers from VC funds for his startup business, CashDrop. This case describes the tensions between the two funds: a traditional VC fund who would offer Flores-Martinez a prestigious platform, and a... View Details
        Keywords: Small Business; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Illinois
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        • January 2007
        • Background Note

        Choosing Corporate and Global Scope

        By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
        Introduces students to the study of corporate strategy, while providing an overview framework for understanding international strategy. Focuses on questions of scope and ownership. Examines both horizontal and vertical integration. Underscores the point that economies... View Details
        Keywords: Economics; Investment; Framework; Global Strategy; Ownership; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
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        • November 1999 (Revised March 2002)
        • Case

        Red Hat and the Linux Revolution

        By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
        The case describes the history of the Linux operating system and the open-source movement in general. Focuses on a critical decision being made by Red Hat, the largest distributor of Linux, about its future development efforts. The decision allows students to explore... View Details
        Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Product Development; Change Management; Research and Development; Business Processes; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology Industry; North Carolina
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        • September 1996 (Revised June 1998)
        • Case

        InterSoft of Argentina (A)

        By: Linda A. Hill and Stacy Palestrant
        Focuses on InterSoft of Argentina, a growing software company in Argentina. In 1993, InterSoft acquires a Russian software company and Emilo Lopez, the vice president and director of InterSoft's Systems Software Lab, must manage a creative, cross-cultural, "virtual"... View Details
        Keywords: Applications and Software; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology Industry; Argentina; Russia
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        • 24 Apr 2013
        • News

        Pimco’s Rising Stars Pull in Money for Future After Gross

        • 2017
        • Performance & Appearance

        Hair Penalties and Other Organizational Sins: Racism Disguised as Professionalism

          Prof. Thales Teixeira returns to Cannes to speak about Digital Disruption

          In recent years, a new wave of digital disruption has been taking over the Internet. It is characterised by business models focusing on the separation of consumption activities that traditionally went together such as content and advertising, or browsing and purchasing... View Details