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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
regarding the causal links between entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth still call for explanation. It remains unclear, for instance, whether William Baumol's neat distinction between productive and unproductive... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
reached the executive level at his organization. Why did he make it when so many other minorities plateaued in middle management? First, Williams had the good fortune to be hired by Nathan Barrett, a white... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- September 2015 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Pershing Square 2.0
By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson and David Biery
In June 2015 William A. Ackman, the CEO and founder of New York hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, reflects on the success of the fund he has spent over a decade building. Since its inception in 2004, Pershing Square's assets under management had grown from $500... View Details
Keywords: Activism; Value Investing; Portfolio Management; Management; Investment Portfolio; Investment Activism
Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Hanson, and David Biery. "Pershing Square 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 216-003, September 2015. (Revised September 2017.)
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
by networks of other people who can supply the thousand things it takes to fuel a business. Here is how William Sahlman, business educator and scholar, began a paper, "Some Thoughts on Business... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
book excerpt Evolving Committments From The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World By JOSEPH L. BADARACCO In a turbulent, sometimes dangerous world, responsible leaders need a broader view of critical decisions.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
clear-cut. “A problem with megatrend predictions is that, even if they turn out to be generally accurate, they’re not managerially useful.” In the first month of social distancing in the United States, online sales at Walmart and Target indeed surged View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
trend of overspending prior to the dot-com fallout, saying that venture capital firms must make more independent decisions these days. "You're making bets that are not obvious, that are not apparent to everyone in the industry. It takes more courage, and View Details
- Research Summary
The Real Estate Challenge: Capitalizing on Change
William J. Poorvu has developed a new casebook and instructor's manual for teaching how to manage change in real estate. Two chapters that describe changes that are currently affecting the industry are followed by twenty case studies-approximately 60 percent of them... View Details
- September 2024 (Revised October 2024)
- Case
River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
MBA student William Chism, the founder of a fully integrated medical marijuana company based in Mississippi, must respond to a significant disruption in the fledgling industry. In late 2023, Rapid Analytics, one of two active licensed testing facilities, has its... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Growth and Maturation; Forecasting and Prediction; Microeconomics; Local Range; Government Legislation; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Mississippi
Greenwood, Robin, Richard S. Ruback, and Robert Ialenti. "River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market." Harvard Business School Case 225-011, September 2024. (Revised October 2024.)
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
land, construction, hiring, and so on. Yet overconfidence remains the norm; in a study by Arnold Cooper of Purdue University, Carolyn Woo of Notre Dame University, and William Dunkelberg of Temple... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
pharmaceutical companies in 1984, American Home Products ranked first in sales and twenty-eighth in R&D expenditures as a percentage of sales.23 As the historian Williams Haynes noted, by the end of the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
ones—lots of growth opportunities. The 1998 merger of BP and Amoco, for example, led to the disposal of 12 oil-storage terminals scattered across North America. The terminals were purchased by the Williams... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
new ones. The authors contend that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the Harvard framework (Figure 11.1), which was developed by William Sahlman 1 and Howard Stevenson 2 is described in Chapter 12. Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from making bad... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- Research Summary
Technological Change and Competitive Strategy
Richard S. Rosenbloom continues to explore issues in the strategic
management of technology and the relationship between technological
change and competitive strategy. He is currently investigating the
histories of radical technological innovations and their... View Details
- Research Summary
Management Control Issues of International Ventures
William J. Bruns, Jr. is conducting (with Sharon M. McKinnon of Northeastern University) a field study of control issues that arise in international ventures between U.S. and European companies. Bruns' research is aimed at answering questions raised by earlier... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-016.pdf Channels of Influence Authors:Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm's location, we can predict,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Book
The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World
By: Michael Wheeler
A member of the world-renowned Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School introduces the powerful next-generation approach to negotiation. For many years, two approaches to negotiation have prevailed: the "win-win" method exemplified in Getting to Yes by Roger... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation
Wheeler, Michael. The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
insurance expenditure is approximately 1.9. Overall, our results suggest that UI has a beneficial effect on the economy by decreasing its sensitivity to shocks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51410... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne