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- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
region are starting to pull back from their welfare state philosophies and encourage the privatization of the economies. These are gradual changes. The governments are trying to minimize social disruptions. But the broad implication is... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
case closes with Cirne wondering if he should push back or give up yet another remnant of his position at Wily. Wasserman (who has taught the case in The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit alumni program and in the first-year course The... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
examine the most up-to-date best practices and explain how companies can put a smile on customers’ faces and keep them coming back for more. In a recent interview, they explained some of their findings. Aisner: Why is it so important to... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
development. First, structural conditions first postulated by Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously determined political instability in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
success, and the role of hormones in cheating. "Tell us what you think were the most significant trends, ideas, or management lessons from 2015." Also worth reading is our list of the year’s most popular articles from the archives, which date View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
couldn't get venture funding. There wasn't much available back then. Some ten years later, when I started Calyx & Corolla, the difference was phenomenal. And, of course, now there is even more venture capital available. Some of the... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature makes three assertions: the U.S. did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them for the value of their assets, and the oil workers benefited from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
how to finance growth. Building The Team—finance And Founders In the second part of the course, students consider the questions they'll face after making the key choice not to run the company alone: Who should the cofounder(s) be? Is it a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
mortgage interest, a deduction that came to be accepted as a means to helping people achieve the "American dream" of owning a home. In 1986, however, that concept began to run into some opposition, when President Reagan put... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
innovation by creating uncertainty and convince risk-averse companies to pull back on R&D. When a bicyclist was killed by an Uber autonomous car in Arizona in 2018, for example, the company suspended the program—even though the crash... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
charitable donations like a typical nonprofit would. Commercial microfinance organizations often adopt a hybrid model, for example: they provide business loans to poor people who wouldn't traditionally qualify, but they still depend on the loan recipients paying them... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
the patent process you document affected entrepreneurial finance? A: Young, innovative firms are hurt in two ways by a poorly-operating patent system. First, as patents become easier to get, their value for the truly innovative firms—such as those View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
forgiven Shell for what they [did] with that oil rig." An Australian argued: "McDonald's pays back locally, but it is their duty. They are making so much money, they should be giving back." The playing field isn't level;... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, and his... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
Uruguay, Chu graduated from Dartmouth College in 1968 "right in time to go back to Latin America at the time of the Dirty Wars," he said. He saw extreme political polarization, urban guerillas, terrorism from both the liberation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
return to often are When the Legends Die: The Timeless Coming-of-Age Story about a Native American Boy Caught Between Two Worlds, by Hal Borland, Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok, and Inside Out & Back Again, by Thanhha Lai. Each is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating institutions, fights for an alternative... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
said: Julie Battilana: Put people and the planet at economy's core My hope is that President Biden and his team will help all of us rebuild strong democratic foundations, and place human beings and the planet back at the core of our... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
has an obligation—and opportunity—to intervene. I'm interested in the opportunity. I'm interested in sustainability as defined by economic competitiveness and the resource-stretching aspects of environmentalist thinking. I think back to a... View Details