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  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

example, you don’t need to talk as freely about your failures—not because it’s harmful—but because people don’t tend to feel envious of you in the first place.” In another experiment, the researchers studied a different environment: a competition in which View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and previous experience are regarded as the main criteria for investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteria that investors use to make these decisions: the gender and physical... View Details
  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

technology entrepreneurs and the strategies they use to gain a competitive edge. Wu spoke to the Harvard Gazette about his take on Musk’s recent moves. Interview has been edited for clarity and length. Harvard Gazette: Many of Elon Musk’s... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

received an appointment by Harvard Business School as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and was named as one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. Ms. Beck was Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005. Prior to... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Book

More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

School. Kominers, who coauthored the new book The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create with marketing expert and Web3 entrepreneur Steve Kaczynski, says despite all the open questions... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services
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HBS - The year in Review

innovative new events like Alumni Dialogues and an Entrepreneurs Exchange. First HBS Fund Investors Society Challenge a Success More than 500 alumni from the 15 most recent MBA classes (2007–2021) participated in the first-ever HBS Fund... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Practice Chair, MBA Required Curriculum Mitchell Weiss is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on View Details
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

am now researching. It will look at entrepreneurs and firms across a broad span of industries, and globally, that saw greenness as both a profitable and a socially necessary business opportunity, and that have led, rather than followed,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
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Business History - Faculty & Research

American chemical industries until the 1970s, when the two German firms diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from criticism, but also as opportunities for changes in... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

become something more." What every entrepreneur knows: "A great idea is not enough." Business leader worth emulating: Lou Gerstner (MBA '65), IBM. "He transformed a giant corporation, but beyond that, he is leading a pathbreaking... View Details
Keywords: Management
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

capital for entrepreneurs seeking to build businesses and make a difference in their communities. The fund has dual goals of creating social change and the pursuit of reasonable investment returns, allowing for those funds to be... View Details
  • 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
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

funding for this public goods project, it would be great if you let us know when you cite interviews in published works by sending a brief email to cem@hbs.edu . Here, we feature a few examples of thematic and comparative research... View Details
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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

  Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

'American Dream' Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra Periodical:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates for improved corporate governance at public companies, focusing on the problems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (52) Submit People Alumni Executive Education Faculty MBA Students Topics Business for Social Impact Impact Investing K-12 Education Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Public Sector Social Entrepreneurship Format Text Video A... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

individual level of analysis that neo-institutional theorists often tend to neglect. Relying on Bourdieu's conceptualization of fields, I propose that individuals' social position is a key variable in understanding how they are enabled to act as institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne