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- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
seeing with vinyl, with fountain pens, with independent bookstores, and with mechanical watches. Technology re-emergence is really a redefinition strategy. It’s redefining the product as something more than just the View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Abstract This research examines how teams organize knowledge sourcing (obtaining access to others' knowledge or expertise) and investigates the performance tradeoffs involved in two approaches to knowledge sourcing in teams. One approach... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment
2025 Presentation Governing Sustainability in a Shifting Context By: Lynn S. Paine June 2025 Case Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (A) By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer On January 27, 2025, the head of a relatively... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
of the happiest countries in spite of a tumultuous history, low life expectancy, a dismal literacy rate, a small and undiversified economy, and low GDP per capita. Everyone, it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
business customers than at end consumers. There are some that consumers are increasingly seeing, like Fair Trade coffee or "sustainably harvested" labels for seafood. In handmade rugs you can find a number of labeling schemes like Rugmark, but it's still quite a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance?
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Association for Consumer Research The Functional Alibi By: Keinan, Anat, Ran Kivetz, and Oded Netzer Abstract—Spending money on hedonic luxuries often seems wasteful, irrational, and even immoral. We propose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
introduction to Ms. Hesselbein in 1988. Case preparation, appearances in my classes, and writing for her later publications then followed. "As Hesselbein put it, 'the power of language is so important in this job.'" Welch View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- August 2021
- Case
Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)
By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
Elberse, Anita, Briana Richardson, and Cydni Williams. "Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)." Harvard Business School Case 522-020, August 2021.
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
Edward A. Meyer June 2025 | Case | Faculty Research On January 27, 2025, the head of a relatively small hedge fund named Late Apex Partners sent a highly critical letter to the board of directors of Vail Resorts, the world’s largest ski... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
what we have learned so far about the potential and limits of microfinance and how insights from research and practice can help inform the industry's current products, policies... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
unique challenges of companies commercializing breakthrough technology. This year, 295 teams entered the virtual competition—117 in the Student Business Track, 48 in the Student Social Enterprise Track, and... View Details
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
The fight was lost as consumers voted for free information supported by advertising over subscription services. Ironically, online advertising and the commercialization of the Web achieved important goals of the resisters: to preserve the... View Details
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
Program. Graduates earn two degrees in two years and are prepared to grow transformative organizations that will advance new drug discoveries or therapeutics. HIVES: Classrooms in Batten Hall designed with FIELD courses in mind to... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
fit. “At our first startup after a series of roles at large enterprise software companies, we tried to force a big company perspective on how we did employee feedback and reviews. We were too structured with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
by launching the Akamai Technical Academy, which asked the question: “Why don’t we go out and find smart people to train, and create our own talent pool?” Slides Impact Investing at a Crossroads Amelia... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
forces operating today, business and consumer spending, in service toward eradicating deadly disease in Africa. Kiva connects small lenders-many of whom lend $50 or less-with promising entrepreneurs, mostly... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn