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  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

HBS research associate Brian DeLacey, are studying the processes of mentoring and coaching in entrepreneurial environments. Leonard and DeLacey discuss their findings with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne.Silverthorne: In... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom features in response to new customers' request, even if these custom features entail expensive departures from OPOWER's product roadmap.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

Israel, Knesset members, Israel’s Chief Scientist, prominent business leaders, academics, and journalists weigh in on the formation of the Israeli entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem, the challenges it faces going forward, and what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50573 2015 Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving By: Datar,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

about 22,000 employees and made about 4.5 billion Swiss Francs (or $4.589 billion USD) in sales in 2015, managed 1.5 million tools under fleet management contracts in 40 countries, resulting in a contract value of more than 1.2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors: Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort. Functional areas such as sales,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

the final stages of a 10-year plan of rejuvenation under CEO Kim Lopdrup. When he took over as CEO in 2004 the chain was closing restaurants and suffering declining same-store sales and declining customer satisfaction. But in 2010, even... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales and a manufacturing function within a firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

improved diversity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52703 Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation By: Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—We study the role of homophily in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

providing new free housing to tens of thousands of slum dwellers, which is anticipated to be paid for from the revenues from developing and selling market-rate housing. While the primary concerns are cost of construction, cost of capital, and revenues from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

financial value. Yet scholars have recently shown that entrepreneurial activity by users is more widespread than previously believed. We present data and statistics documenting the prevalence, technological impact, and economic impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction, and an increase in the extent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and defensive tactics to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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