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  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

discussion at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. When Marc Levine was asked to head up an internal start-up at electronics equipment maker Teradyne Corporation, he jumped at the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2020
  • Chapter

Reflections on Comparing China and India

By: Tarun Khanna
In this essay, the introductory chapter to an edited volume (Bajpai, Ho and Miller (edited), Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations, 2020), I reflect on two decades of my comparative scholarship on the trajectories of modern China and India, with a lens... View Details
Keywords: Country Analysis; Comparative Analysis; International Relations; Entrepreneurship; China; India
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  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of playing in a deal-driven industry.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Professor William A. Sahlman calls "the problem of simultaneity." If, as the business school defines it, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of a business opportunity requiring resources beyond one's control, Polished was all... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 06 Jan 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

might even be impeded by, an international agreement. As he put it, because "scale advantage is reversed" in the alternative energy field, change "will be driven from the bottom, not the top." In other words, will... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • October 2005 (Revised September 2006)
  • Case

DentalCorp

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
DentalCorp is the fifth largest provider of dental insurance in Brazil and has tripled its sales in the past two years. Whether to expand to Chile or to continue expansion in Brazil is the major strategic choice facing the company at the end of 2004. View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; Brazil; Chile
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  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Capital IQ database, fewer than 6 percent achieved more than $10 million in revenues by 2010, and fewer than 2 percent grew to more than $50 million. The percentages are worse for US and international companies founded in years since... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

interested in studying this relatively unexplored area. Q: Why did you decide to focus on entrepreneurship in the advertising industry in your research? A: Advertising more than most businesses responds to the talents and personalities of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

sustainability reports. We conclude with thoughts about mandatory sustainability and integrated reporting. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-100.pdf With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

called a "forum" rather than a "course"? Hart: Yes. Our focal points are leadership issues and contemporary concerns such as international expansion, or the impact of the Internet. Our participants need to stay abreast... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent international documents, and in which states are the primary duty bearers of human rights. This commentary argues that the implications of adopting one or the other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2024
  • HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

entrepreneur’s Flashfood app at a Toronto supermarket hadn’t gone well, ending with confusion among customers and ire from the store manager. But Domingues, who had launched the app after learning that international food waste was the... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

partnerships—because no company can do it all in-house anymore. In addition to developing new competencies, Stevenson said companies internally must emphasize responsibility, not authority. Responsibility-based corporate cultures are very... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

EU regulations were in step with sound international practice. Remainers, on the other hand, have spent little time explaining what the UK can do better within the European Union to address the very real competitiveness challenges Great... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

trip, recently talked to Professor Kerr about his research and his observations in China. Mike Roberts: Tell us about your impressions of China. Bill Kerr: My central observation from our trip is that China is at a tipping point for View Details
Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

commercialization of technologies. This evidence also points to an important mechanism relating financial market development to technology diffusion and economic growth. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2520551 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

process better, they looked at the emergence of modern Indian art as a category in the international fine art market between 1995 and 2007. Before 1995, fine art was produced in India but there was little demand largely because Indian art... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

but, in general, China has discouraged or actively undermined local entrepreneurship in favor of an foreign direct investment-dependent approach, they say. India, on the other hand, is building an infrastructure—however slowly—that allows... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing

By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
In response to a perceived undervaluation by the capital markets, Nestle is considering divesting a part of its ophthalmology subsidiary, Alcon, and must decide on a listing location. In the process, students are challenged to wrestle with the valuation of a... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; International Finance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Markets; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Europe; United States
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  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

case describes a critical inflection point in the growth of an international development "mentor capitalist" nonprofit, Endeavor. As Endeavor aims to scale its high-impact entrepreneurship model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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