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    Making Sense of Past and Present

    entrepreneurs managed through many tricks and traps to write the untold rules of capitalism. Professor Jones’s course also pushed me to deeply think about my intrinsic values as a leader and entrepreneur. What do I stand for?  What is my... View Details
    • 17 Jul 2006
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

    "network effects"—the idea that the value or utility of a product goes up as more people use it. A telephone holds no value if there is only one in the world—but the technology becomes increasingly... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education
    • Web

    FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
    • 12 Apr 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: April 12

    devotees, while drivers of the Cayenne (which came to be known as 'the SUV for soccer moms') tended to be safety-conscious, family-oriented, and conservative. Evolving debates on forums allow a class to debate whether the brand had... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Nov 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

    non-strategic firms. "With nearly 50 percent of sales being driven by overseas sales—and the surrounding population being a big driver of that activity—understanding this is crucial to understanding the View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 11 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

    error-prone by using employees' subjective time estimates. Also, in the mid-1980s, we failed to fully understand the critical role played by capacity when estimating cost driver rates. The insight about the central role for capacity did... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 03 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Facebook’s Future

    Editor's note: Now 10 years old, Facebook's growth is starting to slow. That's one reason it purchased What'sApp last month in a jaw-dropping deal valued at $19 billion. What might the next decade be like? Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
    • 01 Oct 1999
    • News

    The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success

    driver of performance in these organizations, regardless of nationality. Eager to determine whether this finding would also hold true among developing economies, Deshpandé and Farley have expanded their study to include information they... View Details
    Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
    • 30 Jan 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Looking Behind Bad Decisions

    political science to explain drivers behind the crafting of public policy. Now Bazerman and coauthors Jonathan Baron and Katherine Shonk are looking into the psychology of decision making to provide a fuller explanation. Their paper,... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls
    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Blog Post

    IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

    India’s position along its development curve presents a unique opportunity that more developed countries no longer have available. Throughout course, our team focused on understanding the drivers of emissions within the agricultural... View Details
    • 20 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

    Business Administration and author of Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups As United States equity markets and corporate balance sheets continue their remarkable comeback from... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
    • 21 Jul 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: July 21, 2015

    driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Jul 2020
    • Blog Post

    HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

    world. Peter Le: Understand how global supply chain works and what are the potential drivers and hurdles for efficient global supply chain systems. Prerna Arya: Through this internship, I hope to learn more about health-tech, how an... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2010
    • News

    Dare to be Different

    deeply ingrained fidelity to certain brands — the kind of loyalty that our parents’ generation felt toward even mundane brands like Tide detergent or Miracle Whip or Sony televisions — is definitely in peril, at least in my opinion. Why is that? One of the View Details
    Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank;Youngme Moon; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
    • 29 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 29

    multiparty risk and disaster management, namely that the organizational challenge is to enable multiple actors and subunits with competing and often conflicting values and expertise to establish a virtual, well‐aligned organization.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too

    seconds, the duo vanished but left me with a priceless insight: “What if being a good ATV driver meant I could be a good fighter pilot?” That simple question opened up a world of possibilities. Maybe my future was not so predetermined... View Details
    • 07 Mar 2024
    • Blog Post

    IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India

    some areas of strength and key insights from our Log9 site visit. Overall, all ventures should use this framework to ensure that they have found “Product-Market-Fit”; this is even more critical in resource-constrained developing countries like India. Context + Customer... View Details
    • 11 Jun 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: June 11

    initial relative firm capabilities, market attractiveness, market-firm fit, and knowledge transferability. By explicitly incorporating firm rivalry across multiple markets, our model offers a comprehensive approach to understanding the View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 26 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 26

    and benefits and that bundled legislation is valued more than the sum of its parts. Study 2 shows this finding stems from a diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains. Study 3 extends our findings to policies involving costs... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Judging | New Venture Competition

    Judging Social Enterprise Track Social Enterprise ideas are evaluated on their potential to become the basis of a viable new venture and will focus on the idea, its potential for social value creation, and the likelihood of achieving... View Details