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- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High Tech Risks, article ©... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
in their business model—defects that numerous outsiders noted from day one. It was a classic case of wishful thinking. Q: How can managers without executive authority spot the warning signs of denial and help reverse the process before... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. "I have been intrigued with high leverage and its View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
return of a pandemic. But what about potential opportunities associated with the recession of the coronavirus, opportunities associated with a “reshuffling of the deck” in the workforce caused by COVID-19 that could create opportunities for business? Did the pandemic... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
seniority. An increase in the default probability from 5 percent to 10 percent results in a 55 percent decline in the expected payoff for the junior tranche, an 8 percent decline for the mezzanine tranche, and a .01 percent decline for the senior tranche. The View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
to exit direct stockholding if their stock portfolios have performed well; but these relationships are much weaker for mutual funds, a pattern which is consistent with previous research on the disposition effect among direct stockholders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
more stable career path. The firms themselves also grew stronger, and the French government eventually saved more in unemployment benefits than the program cost, according to the study, Employment Effects of Alleviating Financing... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
Media Wise That sort of approach isn't possible in today's media-rich world—and probably wouldn't be very effective anyway. "It's more like the Vietnam War now," Deighton continues. "The ideas have to belong to the people you're... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Managing Global Supply Chains There are fundamental differences between supply chains and global supply chains, say authors Ananth Raman and Noel Watson, both HBS professors. "The increasing globalization of supply chains makes it... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- February 2017
- Case
BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Web Services Industry; France; Europe
Lakhani, Karim R., Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud, and Caroline Caltagirone. "BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead..." Harvard Business School Case 617-050, February 2017.
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
number of self-identified gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender executives gained 733 percent. Another benefit: "By deliberately seeing ways to more effectively reach a broader range of customers, IBM has seen significant... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
Care, Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA '06), focus not on how the United States will pay for health care in the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit and an expert... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
phones that can speak with your phone, your phone becomes more valuable. "We see that very strongly in information technology. That effect is very important not only in terms of the hardware protocols, but also in terms of virtual... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
within an organization to be effective leaders and to accomplish their personal goals. Executives are urged to examine their lives to discover major themes, interests, and values, using that examination to create a short statement of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace