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- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
feelings of life satisfaction, we explore when, how, and why time and money impact peoples’ anticipated, momentary, and lasting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53781 November 2017 Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
entrepreneurs saw the outlines of competition in their respective industries before other players and could thus act quickly to create and control what became the standards of rivalry in each young market.) The economic spoils of this... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneuring Models Authors:Mair, Johanna, Julie Battilana, and Julian Cardenas Publication:Journal of Business Ethics Abstract In this article, we use content and cluster analysis on a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
increased scope for markets, and distrust of markets generally. Our results suggest that while the public is potentially receptive to compensating kidney donors, among those who oppose it, general disapproval towards certain kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
have remained brisk. By 2015, facial care was a $1 billion market in India, and skin lighteners represented almost half that market size. The facial care market is expected to grow to $1.96 billion—nearly doubling in size—by 2019. “The campaign has helped a lot in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
opposed. Which path should ZappRx take? The case is a window into the early go-to-market and business model decisions that an entrepreneur must make, in this case in the face of pushback from her own management team. The case also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
that seeks to improve society by identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who launch organizations to attack some of the world's most difficult problems. After turning Echoing Green around and re-building an organization almost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that public support... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
amortization (EBITDA) margin of over 8%. At the executive education program, Jaime had learned that entrepreneurs could build on their unique attributes and capabilities to expand and grow their businesses. Should he continue to expand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Endeavor Entrepreneur Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
operation and to understand the tradeoffs between customer service and labor utilization. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/618062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-104 Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53288 Harvard Business School Case 818-007 Entrepreneurship for All Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) is a Lowell, Massachusetts–based nonprofit that hosts business accelerators for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
Falato, Antonio, and David Scharfstein Abstract—We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from private to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new online investing category between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Shibusawa lived almost twice as long as Hamilton, and after working in the public sector he was able to contribute substantially to the private sector, too. He was involved with the launch of nearly 500 companies over his lifetime. The... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016
fast-food chain Chicken Republic, and Ayo Oduntan, founder of an integrated Nigerian poultry operation (Amo Byng Group), are among a growing cadre of skilled food-industry entrepreneurs for whom the opportunities to serve the Nigerian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne