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- 2021
- Chapter
Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success
By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Fintech; Artificial Intelligence; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Capital; Success; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science
Mills, Karen G., and Annie Dang. "Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success." In Big Data in Small Business, edited by Carsten Lund Pedersen, Adam Lindgreen, Thomas Ritter, and Torsten Ringberg. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Asia-Pacific operations. Earlier, while at Carlyle, he oversaw the purchase of KorAm Bank in 2000 and its sale four years later to Citigroup, in a deal that more than doubled Carlyle’s original investment. That outcome caught the eye of... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
mental models on each firm’s learning? (3) Can firms with less accurate mental models outperform firms with more accurate mental models and, if so, why? We find that incorrect mental models can easily “rationalize” market outcomes and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
In professional services, successful firms tend to be either small or super-sized. There’s very little middle ground. Take health care, for example. Shouldice is a small, 89-bed hernia hospital in Canada that, over the past several decades, has provided excellent... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
- 2017
- Chapter
Innovation Policies
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price – in terms of an investor’s... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Failure Tolerance; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Attitudes; Investment; Failure
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Innovation Policies." In Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms. Vol. 37, edited by Jeffrey Furman, Annabelle Gawer, Brian Silverman, and Scott Stern, 37–80. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Innovation Policies
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price ― in terms of an investor's... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Failure Tolerance; Venture Capital; Attitudes; Investment; Failure; Innovation and Invention
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Innovation Policies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-038, October 2012. (Revised March 2017. forthcoming in the AiSM Special issue on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Platforms.)
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
What lessons could the humid shores of the Caribbean, the freezing heights of the Himalayas, or the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere hold for your company or organization? Although those places couldn't be more different, all were the scenes of disastrous View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Web
Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Information Technology Information Technology To make the transformation to value-based health care... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
entrepreneurs view problems as opportunities. In this talk, I focus on entrepreneurs trying to deliver better health and education outcomes at lower cost and in less time. I also discuss the role of ventures in addressing climate change.... View Details
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
business and its potential to a candidate during the final closing stages. More than 100 employees. Let go! If a company lacks clear guidelines at this point, which manifests as bad culture or heavy voluntary or involuntary attrition,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand’s Social Network on Marketing Outcomes By: John, Leslie K., Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Does “liking” a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2009
- Working Paper
Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting
By: Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer and Michael W. Toffel
Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences that range from minor inconveniences to major catastrophes. Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Legal Liability; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Failure; Health Industry
Adler-Milstein, Julia Rose, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel. "Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-017, September 2009. (August 2009.)
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
that covers 1992–2008 and many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially formed by immigrants and their medium-term growth patterns. We also consider the relationship of these outcomes to the immigrants’ age at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
We offer the rescue as an extraordinary example of extreme teaming, to illustrate the enormous potential of diverse experts coming together to innovate to overcome a nearly impossible challenge. The case illustrates the centrality of... View Details
- 27 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall
patients. “The extremely high profit margins in medical devices offers a setting in which the risks are often overwhelmed by the potential rewards to innovate, especially when competitors face their own product failures,” according to the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
Outcome measures top the list, with 60% of respondents saying they are extremely important. This survey suggests that many in health care see value-based reimbursement as a real solution to the nation’s current health care crisis.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery By: Burt, Bryan M., Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki, and John G. Byrne Abstract—We hypothesized that increased post-graduate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching Interest
Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)
Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details