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24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the big Internet wins of the late 1990s, you may not know a thing about early-stage investing. By the same token, if you had 10 failures in multiple industries, you might not know anything either. But you will if you keep paying attention. Reading View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

Harvard Business School on consumer-driven health care to discuss the topic. The conference was attended by CEOs and other leading thinkers. I have published and lectured on the topic since then. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

John Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he teaches Strategic Marketing Management in the Advanced... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Research that explores how children benefit from having a working mom blew away the field for most popular feature article on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2015. With nearly 84,000 visits,... View Details

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

It's that paradox—that struggle can be both something to overcome on the way to success and something to embrace for the meaning it gives our lives—that motivated Harvard Business School Professor Joseph... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

a factory in a low-cost location in Asia? Such a move over the next five to seven years would be full of risk, especially considering LEGO has had a checkered history of expansion—one such effort almost led to bankruptcy. So Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

In the long run, even the most fundamental innovations have a way of being influenced by government, says Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar. That's why business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

what is clear is that the organization will have to be one that both consumers need and doctors trust, says John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

What do Stella McCartney, Apple, Netflix, and Wal-Mart have in common? They were all subjects of the most popular episodes of Harvard Business School's Cold Call podcast in the last year. Twice monthly, host and Chief Marketing and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

of us to navigate the coronavirus crisis by conveying to employees, colleagues, friends, and family that “I’m here for you.” About the Authors Howard Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Professor Emeritus of Harvard Business School. Eugene B. Kogan... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

Want to create a high-profit auction? One strategy is to create "auction fever" around your sale by generating lots of hype, having strict rather than flexible deadlines at the end of auctions, and making sure winners and losers are visible to participants,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

middle school during the late 1990s, Speed Trap may provide some historical perspective on the origins of the business models upon which you are building, and some lessons for navigating a boom-bust cycle.... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

16 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

organizations, and what managers must do to effectively lead the change process. Tushman and O'Reilly are the coauthors of Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal, Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

organization, but was far from broken. "Women's progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years," says Robin J. Ely, the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy F. Bresnahan... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

would be better off flipping a coin to determine a probable winner. “We find that even guessing at a 50-50 level is just as good, if not actually better, than using some demographic forecasts,” says Vincent Pons, the Byron Wien Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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