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- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in... View Details
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
accelerators, we decided we didn’t have the passion for the idea to be all-in. So, I came to HBS with the idea I wanted to try starting a company again but in a space I was passionate about. Luckily, HBS proved to be a very low risk proving grounds. In December of RC... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or... View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by entrepreneurs who are less... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
same time internally, our marketing and clinical trials folks had been working with Joe and they came to us and said, 'We've got a great opportunity here, but we do the commercial side of things and we need... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
exceptional candidates. Create an environment that welcomes questions. “Even when there is a lot going on, like there is currently in the real estate market in Dallas, my colleagues at Invesco US have taken the View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Panera Bread, the fast-growing bakery-café chain with over six hundred locations in mostly suburban markets across the United States. Panera’s ability to deliver high-quality food... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
dollars have been deployed with little effect. "I think if in all our business lives we throw a trillion dollars at something and we still lose market share, it's probably time to think about whether... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Moderna could create a vaccine for clinical testing in just 60 days. That was three times faster than any vaccine candidate had ever been produced. Fauci didn't believe him. An idea emerged to test Bancel’s record-breaking claims: a mock... View Details
- Profile
Rachel Honeth
television station in South Bend, Indiana. But while pursuing her undergraduate degree at Northwestern, she discovered that, "I was interested in the marketing and advertising aspect of sports rather than television." After... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
the difference between consulting and finance and marketing and entrepreneurship,” says Polli. Career paths in accounting or consulting, for example, usually correlated to attention to detail and a lack of impulsive behavior, she says;... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 21 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion
evaluating hearing healthcare investments. For example, I recently advised a company developing gene therapies for hearing loss. For the engagement, we delivered strategic recommendations for clinical trial design based on a synthesized analysis of the View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
stirred in the country’s public opinion. Financial markets and bookmakers seem to indicate that Remain is the more likely outcome, but the very last poll of polls by the Financial Times pointed to a chilling... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Earnings Call By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public offering, the first View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Myra Hart Named to Professorship
Executive Education programs, which were offered for the first time in 1997: The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit and Women Leading Business. These short programs update entrepreneurs and senior executives on the latest management research being... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
effects of competition have an advantage within their markets, says Alexander J. MacKay, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study Consumer Inertia and Market Power with Marc... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
citizens; in Afghanistan, the average annual income at the time was about $100. (Current estimates are more like $700.) Roshan, which translates from the Dari and Pashto languages to “light,” was a name chosen by the Afghan people through... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
two-sided marketplace, it must achieve a critical mass of both employers and employees in each market to be successful, an endeavor that takes time and resources. Focusing on a small number of states would... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Pizza for two straight years, won regional awards in the International Pizza Challenge, and earlier this year was deemed by the New York Times to serve a world-class slice of New York Style Pizza. Crawford is a former Air Force fighter... View Details