A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

doing so may expose a weakness: a lack of self-control that would make others judge them harshly, says Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

There is nothing small about the research practiced by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Esty. He studies the financing of some View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

Corporate cutbacks could stall R&D and hinder innovation, argues Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner. In this Q&A, Lerner looks over the state View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

artistic merit therein. The crowd identified breakout theater hits the experts sometimes ignored, but also backed a box office bomb. ©iStock.com/jganser "Crowdfunding has enabled a democratization View Details

Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Apr 2015
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Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

Patients are not actually the customers in the United States health care system, a fact largely to blame for the dearth of communication and data sharing between providers, according to experts View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

13 Apr 2015
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3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

05 May 2003
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SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

Anderson's collapse, he added: "Audit committees understand that they are in charge. There is now a much better focus on the complexity and risks of business and View Details

Keywords: by Catherine Walsh

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

core activities in any business. Without a good customer acquisition process, you can’t grow.” A professor at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

scrapping the public exchanges would be unfair and unproductive to public health. John A. Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? With little academic attention focused on this question, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

set of functionality that a user will find useful--and is willing to pay (for)." Others pointed out that the high tech community is experiencing disruption at View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

the strategy shifted, and they happened to be on the favored side of that strategy” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?' Boris Groysberg is a professor of View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

heading. As a supreme humanist he wrote accurate predictions of future impacts of technology. His last book was one of despair: ’Mind View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

Harvard Business School professors are more likely to be found in the pages of the Academy of Management Review... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

Research. The paper was coauthored by Andrei Shleifer, the John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Jakob Ahm Sørensen, a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services