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  • October 2015
  • Article

Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation

By: Emily Cox Pahnke, Rory McDonald, Dan Wang and Benjamin Hallen
This paper investigates the impact of early relationships on innovation at entrepreneurial firms. Prior research has largely focused on the benefits of network ties, documenting the many advantages that accrue to firms embedded in a rich network of inter-organizational... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Intellectual Property; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • Web

Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

HBR Prize for the best article of the year in Harvard Business Review for “Reskilling in the Age of AI” (September–October 2023) with Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun. Tiona W. Zuzul : Included as one of the “Best 40 Under 40... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

positioned to expose everyone else to this.” “At the end of the day, it wasn’t necessary that I needed to treat patients. But I needed to have impact.” — Dr. Dan Gebremedhin (Physician, Venture Capital Investor, Entrepreneur) Listen to... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

winter. We suggest that the presence of membership fees can lead consumers to infer a "fees -> savings" link, spurring them to increase their spending independent of the actual savings afforded by such clubs. Using both field... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in advance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under which entitlements fell, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

"one size fits all" approach to the practice of making compensation known. These are the views put forth by participants in this month's discussion of transparency in compensation. Disclosing pay ranges vs. individual pay has... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

New Releases

motivate and lead groups of people in ways that ignite their full creative potential. Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role by Dan Ciampa and Michael... View Details
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

(2) how Duke Energy’s CEO supported pending U.S. legislation addressing climate change, and (3) how Chobani Yogurt’s CEO publicly supported refugees. Students are then provided with the situation faced by PayPal CEO View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) for Innovating in Health Care (Wiley, forthcoming). Hubert Joly : Named HEC Paris Person of the Year in 2020. Hubert Joly : Named Retailer of the Year by Forbes in... View Details
  • Article

The Feeling of Not Knowing It All

By: Haiyang Yang, Ziv Carmon, Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton
How do consumers assess their mastery of knowledge they have learned? We explore this question by investigating a common knowledge consumption situation: encountering opportunities for further learning. We argue and show that such opportunities can trigger a... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Consumption; Consumption Of Learning; Judgment Of Knowledge; Feeling Ofknowing; Confidence In Knowledge; WYSIATI; FONKIA; Knowledge Acquisition; Learning; Perception
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Profits and Economic Development

By: Dan Schwab and Eric Werker
Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity growth. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: Firm Performance; Rent; Mark-up; Competition; Manufacturing; Development Economics; Profit; Economic Growth; Renting or Rental
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  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

more likely to involve collaboration across locations, particularly with inventors from the firm's primary R&D site. Our results suggest that R&D dynamics in clusters are heavily influenced by multi-location firms with innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

2017 CA: BVT Publishing Global Marketing Management: A Casebook By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—During the last quarter century, international business was shaken by a revolution in global competition unlike any previously experienced. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2023
  • News

Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Profile

Melcolm Ruffin

his college education and his NBA career offered him simultaneous introductions to HBS alumni – and powerful Black leadership. In his second year at UMass, Melcolm attended an event featuring Dan Reed, then president of the NBA D-League... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

decisions can also have important unintended consequences. In the example of Airbnb to which Max is referring, my collaborators (Ben Edelman and Dan Svirsky) and I were struck by the fact that Airbnb was... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 29 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

Harvard-affiliated postdocs as they build their promising life science ventures by developing their leadership talents and providing mentorship and community during their entrepreneurial journey. To date, Blavatnik Fellows have created 30... View Details
  • 2019
  • Article

When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive

By: Stephen Turban, Dan Wu and Letian Zhang
Does diversity make a company more productive? Many say yes—some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Others say no—conflicting research indicates that gender diversity can... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Diversity; Performance; Performance Productivity
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  • 12 Feb 2021
  • News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Bob Rosenberg Courtesy Bob Rosenberg Dan Morrell: In 1963, Bob Rosenberg’s (MBA 1963) father asked him to become CEO of Universal Food Systems—which included a... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade