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- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
idea plays a larger role in determining entrepreneurial success than with less R&D-intensive companies. “There’s a long-standing debate in venture financing on whether one should bet on the ‘horse’—the idea—or the ‘jockey’—the team.... View Details
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
star might fade without a tour to guide it. "This became a crucial bet on the development of the artist Lady Gaga," Elberse says. The decision was vital because concerts are not only a great publicity tool for recorded music,... View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
envisioned I would try until much later in my career. Participating in the Summer Fellows program allowed me to bet on myself for the summer and bring my ideas to life. The SEI Accelerator provided me a community of other founders and... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
of new companies rising, but it’s hard today to imagine the handful of giants that loom so tall over the tech world allowing themselves to go the way of VisiCalc or Lotus. And the more wealth they accrue to buy into new technologies, spreading their View Details
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Connell House | About
its shipyard and manufacturing companies in 1985, Connell became the new entity’s CEO, betting against the emerging consensus that US manufacturing was dead. Over the next 14 years, Connell, the son of Irish immigrants, grew his metal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Don’t Mess with His Texas
WATERS: Betting the ranch on posterity. Lost Maples State Natural Area in the Hill Country of Texas is noted for its beautiful limestone canyons and native bigtooth maple trees. The park recently grew by 700 acres thanks to Lou Waters... 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
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
these hypotheses with HBS colleague and mentor Max Bazerman, a leading ethics scholar, who had a different theory. "Max told me, 'I'll bet people are doing this because they feel bad that their papers aren't being downloaded as much as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
eliminating the risk of placing one big bet on a single location or food concept. The model can scale up simply by adding more kitchens, and offerings can be tweaked rapidly in response to data-driven insights. For its part, Foodology... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
launching and running their business,” Bussgang says. “I would bet their customers—major retailers who are counting on Syrup’s platform for mission-critical business processes—would be surprised to learn that James and Ferdinand were... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
project, I was issued badge number #A001 and tasked with figuring out which markets would be best to enter and at what size to build the first manufacturing line and facility. What was my mistake? While I was willing to take a bet with... View Details
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Judges - Alumni
have limited time to capture investor attention. Be direct, avoid unnecessary jargon, and clearly communicate the problem, solution, market opportunity, and business model. Highlight the team: Investors bet on people Ideas matter, but... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
ground in entrepreneurship, leadership, ethics, strategy and a host of other areas. McArthur excelled at identifying promising generators of ideas and placing large institutional bets on them, leading colleagues to dub him “an... View Details
- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
have little fear of authority. As a result, they are often not a good bet for long-term employment, because they are quite willing to seek other employment (or no employment) rather than remain in a job in which they are not growing. They... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
But companies shouldn't count on people succeeding despite the odds; they should shift the odds. Here are three ways to do that. Put innovation at the heart of strategy, and tout it in every message. Think of innovation strategy as a pyramid: big View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
the importance of betting on youth—as I mentioned, one of the hallmarks of his approach—is critical. There is a great quote by Sir Alex in the case that is relevant here: "The first thought for 99 percent of newly appointed managers is to... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
increasingly complex world? Will we need to turn increasingly to such things as quantitative models, "prediction markets" (where people bet on their views), the wisdom of crowds, and even such things as models based on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
foods.” Related Reading: Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer The Key to Keeping Resolutions? Betting Against Yourself You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why. What do you... View Details