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- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
crossed with small financial incentives (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open bank savings accounts. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample, but do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
The Faces Of Collaboration These alliances do not require grandiose strategic plans; patience and perseverance are often sufficient to turn small beginnings into significant strategic alliances. Consider,... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
Cross-sector partnerships between for-profit and nonprofit organizations are increasing in frequency and importance. Such collaborations, write Diana Barrett, James Austin and... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
time. Book link: http://www.e-elgar-business.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=12519 Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
to mention the Suez Canal). Since I found similar results in an effort by Brazilian corporations to attract small shareholders, I thought that Brazil was also a financial democracy. Yet, in Brazil there was a clear cycle: It started in... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
start-ups face those problems. Some of our students took the message of the book and started enterprises to support small businesses in their communities. Business leaders have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
small firms, not-for-profits, and social enterprises have successfully leveraged deep metaphors to solve a wide variety of marketing problems. Marketing Metaphoria should... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
venture between Intel and SAP that was launched in 1997 to create a new-market disruption selling enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to small businesses. Intel View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
commercial real estate development company Prodigy Network, as he develops an equity-based crowdfunding model for small investors to access commercial real estate in Colombia and then tests the model in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
for a second-mover to challenge a first-mover. A: Firefox and Camino claim only a small market share, and those users are on the tech-savvy end of the user spectrum. In... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. Bradley and coauthor Nancy Bartlett are in the midst of writing a book looking at how broadband technologies are reshaping industries. We asked him to take a few minutes to talk about the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
'70), founder of beauty tool company Tweezerman. "tweezerman: Should We Take The Business To The Next Level Of Growth?" From Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got them Right By Thomas H.... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
A group of Chinese tourists visiting the promenade in front of Pudong's skyline. Source: Richmatts When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
prowess, productivity, and ultimately prosperity. This chapter describes recent work in economics and management scholarship on how firms grow, with specific focus on questions surrounding the types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
downs of their companies, and the ability of those enterprises to create jobs. “Before this, the most prominent source of information we had was self-employment statistics,” says Kerr. Self-employment,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
organizations that we have created in the last century, and that we continue to create today, could not function. Without management, chaos would reign. Enterprises would fall apart View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
position to do something about it. Money for new enterprises had been restricted, they believed, by the New Deal's onerous tax system, and by the increasing prominence of ultraconservative investment trusts.... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
history of these entities.... When it is monetized" (whether by competition or government) "the for-profit enterprise will select the lowest price alternative." But Allen Howlett expressed reservations about this approach,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett