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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
programs can still be successful without the traditional partnership structure." But XTV's example, they continue, also suggests "some of the difficulties that these efforts encounter and the apparent importance of having a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
appeared at the top of their bills, as well as the smaller and older expenses. More work, less spending Repayment-by-purchase requires more work from consumers, who must spend time examining each statement and deciding which purchases to... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they targeted only "hot" technology sectors. Prizes encouraged competition and medals were more important than monetary awards. The boost to innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
Debt collectors aren’t perceived as providing great service to debtors.Source: BrianAJackson On the list of industries known for great customer service, debt collection is far from the top—and may not even be on the list at all. “It’s... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
it. Santa Monica Aerospace had to really be scraping the bottom of the barrel to choose Jim Barton as their new CEO. I wish it weren't true. I have friends who work for that formerly great company-friends whom I'd like to see employed and... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
Business as usual is no longer acceptable, was the message of 200 corporate leaders on August 19, when the Business Roundtable issued a "Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation." No longer should the primary purpose of companies View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
get to do those jobs is not expanding,” says Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “People feel more pressure to own their roles and they’re stressed because they’re being... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
million. CHI Inc. is now part of Enel Green Power, part of Enel, the world's largest publicly traded electric utility. There were positive IRR investments in the consumer goods category, Honest Tea and Zip Car being two examples, but this... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
Andrei, and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract—In markets with network effects, users must form expectations about the total number of users who join a given platform. In this paper, we distinguish two ways in which rational expectations can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
that public-firm managers will care about the stock price to the extent that analysts and their shareholders care, Farre-Mensa adds. Management compensation at public firms is often linked to the stock price of the firm; a manager may hold shares or stock options, or... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
sales, the price piece will be one of many points, most of which they're aligned on." Research Associate Knebel points out that while Tom Muccio's approach to Wal-Mart was pioneering for its time, many other companies have since... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
just for African-Americans and women; they’re essential for any manager who recognizes that an organization’s diversity is its strength. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54215 The Customer May Not Always View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
in space is the fundamental transformation of how it’s being organized. For a long time, when most people thought about what we do in space as humans, they thought of it as primarily a government-led activity. They thought of the James... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
"Consumers get the benefits of the Internet at low cost, and often for free, because entrepreneurs are building out analytical tools and support services to run them leaner, and to create new revenue sources that let even free services View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
The size and funding of the European Union budget as well as the role of the European Investment Bank and the European Stability Mechanism should be enhanced. The issuance of Eurobonds to finance... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
that GM will not be able to successfully reinvent itself.— Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer and Frederick Dalzell There are many skeptics who believe that GM will not be able to successfully reinvent itself. Its... View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Research.) The premise is simple—there's value out there in those more than 5,000 publicly traded stocks and thousands of other investment instruments, if only you know where to look. "We didn't want the course to be just about... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
information and social networking sector. Several respondents to this month's column argued that we are. As Kamal Gupta put it, "Facebook's valuation was explained to me by people I consider smarter than me as valuation of its database. The same thing is View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
Industrial Era, product innovation and operations management predominated. Product innovation ensured the continuous flow of new products that would sustain growth or market share or both. Operations management ensured that costs and quality were managed so that... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
problem. Q: You mentioned that the places where health care is delivered are part of the outmoded business model. Could you elaborate? A: You can't make CT scans more affordable by changing the way big hospitals are run. But if you take procedures that once had to... View Details