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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
UHaul from Boston to San Francisco and we showed up in the summer of 2009 knowing basically nobody with an idea. Ten years later we have a real company with over a thousand people around the world and we helped make the Internet faster... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the future. This paper describes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
employee, the US Congress had not yet delivered on the entirety of its $300 million funding promise. Negotiating with officials from the Egyptian and US governments, each with their own priorities, was a time-consuming challenge for Enan, he recalls. "It was a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
future,” DeCoons says. “Even mainstream brands like Under Armour and Adidas want to be part of those experiential events, because they want to cater their products to support those lifestyles.” There’s an opportunity, he adds, for companies in View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
innovations. Ceteris paribus, the share of resources spent on development of general innovations, increases with the stability of the market share of the industry leader. As market shares become less persistent, the model predicts an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
he made in the food industry were equally discouraging. “They told me I was crazy, that Jeannette was dead, that near the end they had been producing the worst madeleines in France. To restart production and change its image at the same... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
partnering with BIT and applying behavioral insights to solve real world policy and managerial problems. “One way to help people make better decisions is to change the choice environment—or the way in which decisions are presented,” Luca... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
business model, one that positioned the company simultaneously in the PC industry and the consumer electronics industry. While Apple enjoyed a high market share in digital media players and in online music sales, it remained a niche... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that trying out a business model on a small scale helps them find out... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
human competition—and even the future of humanity itself. Featuring select interviews from the biggest names in the industry, The Book of Esports weaves tales of trust, betrayal, and superhuman reflexes into predictive frameworks, explaining exactly why the View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
startup than an asset management firm. BlackRock, she said, was about “performance and collaboration in a real way.” Bill Gluck (MBA 1970), managing director of the Farmington Group, countered, saying BlackRock could use the acquisition... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
Deitch says that kind of support is still far from universal. Even with the rising values, there remain powers in the art world who are uninterested in the work of street and graffiti artists. “The support of some of the real art... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jim's story-developed in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Swiss Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Richard DeJordy Abstract—This study examines how influential institutional leaders in the Swiss watch industry responded to its precipitous decline after the introduction of quartz technology.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
in for the weekend from England with teammate Clive Minihan (MBA '81) and their wives. “But the real reason we came is to see our old friends.” Alumni ruggers interested in the Old Boys team are encouraged to contact Steve Watson... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
should also reduce the incentive and possibility to commit tax evasion. Overall, taxes do have a real impact on the business environment, and in most cases business is in favor of the simple and often low flat tax. Laura Alfaro:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
professional development as one of their top priorities, companies should also take a hard look at their mentorship programs, a widely embraced concept that now too often degenerates into pro forma and intermittent “check-in” lunches. More important, companies must... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
for me, there's a Staples at the corner. I park, grab my laptop and my briefcase, and sprint down the street. The guy at Staples tells me I can recover my disk with Norton Utilities. I tell him I'm no tekkie, but he tells me it's real... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
coaches to fledgling enterprises) and wondered if a similar phenomenon were taking place in Asia. “We looked at industries from timber to Internet software and found that there is a real difference between... View Details