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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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

what job offers we get, or even when we get news about our applications. Staying physically healthy while I was having a minor emotional meltdown helped feed that need for control. Going for a run or a yoga class also forced me to take a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

30 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

approach for analyzing decision problems. A running example illustrates problem structuring (decision trees), probability assessment, endpoint evaluation, “folding back the tree” as a method of analysis, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2013
What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

Summing Up How Important is Leadership Gender in Influencing the Way We Work? Any attempt to describe behaviors on the basis of gender runs the risk of stereotyping, generalizing, and generally oversimplifying. As Susan Chipman said in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

one big thing. The next issue was course development. Along those lines, Richard Bohmer and I created a new course, Managing Medicine, back in 1999. I collaborated with Richard, but it was really his idea and his thrust. However, outside... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

writers who allowed the site to run ads on their blog pages received 50 percent of the revenue generated. The researchers analyzed blog posts by 4,200 participants in the program both before and after the program took effect (between May... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

City Metropolitan Opera's general manager Peter Gelb looks back on the first season of a daring experiment to broadcast performances live in high-definition to movie theaters across North America. While the "Live in HD" program... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 May 2013
Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

the colonel! @kevinelop: OMG!! . . . The Double Down is back at KFC!!! @iamToddyTickles: KFC's #doubledowns for Breakfast. Mmmmm. Mmmmmm. Yummmmmmy. I'm full. Despite his precious Twitter handle, iamToddyTickles appears to be a fully... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton

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

05 Mar 2014
What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

employee prompts me to ask the question above. It also brings back vivid memories of the last bubble, seen from the inside. In the spring of 2000, signs of the end of a dot.com bubble were all around us. As a director of an Internet-based... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

Lee Fleming: The classroom discussions remind me of early classes in the first-year required curriculum. The MBAs make up about 40 percent of the class and are in their last term at HBS—obviously, they can run a case discussion. In... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds they View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

studying markets with tendencies toward "early" hiring. Our data make clear that the movement of the clerkship market back to the third year of law school is highly valued by judges, but we also find that a strong majority of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

stability benefits. Subordinated capital provides MMFs with loss absorption capacity, lowering the probability that an MMF suffers losses large enough to trigger a run and reduces incentives to take excessive risks. Other reform... View Details

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

Public Sector seminar series, which runs through May, is designed to induce lively conversation, build a community of scholars, and create a research agenda exploring the possible role of the private sector in shaping the institutions of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

should government strategy matter to business people? It seems many executives, particularly Americans, believe government is incompetent. Richard Vietor: Business people care in several ways—macroeconomic, microeconomic, and foreign investment. An American business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

hard. As he flagged down a cab, Mustafa's mind wandered back to the challenge that he had been grappling with for many months: how to find his replacement as COO at Ashdown Contracting. Purchase this case:... View Details