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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
it comes not from mimicking competitors' best practices, but from seeing functional connections—choices that are part of a connected whole. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51850 October 11, 2016 Proceedings of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
In a US presidential election year with more twists and turns than most in recent memory, many of the issues on the ballot impact business. And keeping politics in the workplace respectful is forefront on managers’ minds as a divided View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We’ve already seen the economics shift for a number of startups in battery development, battery recycling, carbon capture, solar development, and clean hydrogen. Within EVs, the IRA’s tax credit of 30 percent on commercial EVs (up to... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
be on the verge of another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his personal computer. A View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
hiring to anyone currently driving for the competition. To clinch the deal, he appealed to his countrymen’s sense of national pride in supporting an Indonesian company. The video was not widely well received, but the overall approach... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Managers think of businesses in their portfolios as question marks (too early to tell), stars, cash cows, and dogs. Entrepreneurs "harvest" the spoils of startups once the rapid growth period is nearing its end. This work has... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state level through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
environmental standards that require coordinated complementary investments by various types of private adopter. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2142085 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-089 Raising View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
immediate impact of the financial crisis on small business and, second, driving economic recovery in the years following. Together, the three-the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, and the Jumpstart Our... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
Yoshito Hori: There were two things I thought about when this started: First, let's bring back the people and the traffic that has been lost in downtown Mito. The second was to create a more vibrant city, with more startups and more... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
experiments replicated and extended this basic effect, providing evidence of when and why it occurs. Taken together, these studies imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm’s bottom line. Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
startup to Dropbox, Carpenter is the protagonist of another case coauthored by Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld (MBA 1996). “Steven Carpenter at Cake Financial” details his efforts to build and grow an online financial services... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- Web
Meet the Team | Information Technology
Group, where he worked closely with faculty to research and write case studies. Over his nine years in that role, he wrote dozens of case studies on companies ranging in size and scale from startups to Fortune 500 corporations, including... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
information in lending decisions leads to worse credit outcomes when loan officers are busy or before weekends and national holidays; when loan officers had earlier non-banking and, in particular, sales-related experience; when both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
capital adequacy requirements and all the reporting that went along with it. But could an Internet startup maintain the compliance and accounting standards necessary to handle such scrutiny? Could it succeed—and if it did—what would it be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
tailoring solutions to the local context and end-user needs, rather than necessarily “copying and pasting” others’ efforts. The “lean startup” hypothesis-driven entrepreneurship toolbox from The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) course and View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53548 November 14, 2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Handgun Waiting Periods Reduce Gun Deaths By: Luca, Michael, Deepak Malhotra, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
of the opposite phenomenon, in which employees do not have enough work to fill their time and are left with hours of meaningless idle time each week. We conducted six studies that examine the prevalence and work pacing consequences of involuntary idle time. In a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley