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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
Technologies, a small high-tech startup; Montex, the only remaining manufacturer of jeans in Ireland; and IJM, a manufacturer of timber frame buildings. Held at the Ballymascanlon Hotel, a venue near the border, the seminar allowed alumni... View Details
- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
protagonists in cases he admired. To his surprise, “They were all very responsive – most of them wrote back in twenty-four hours.” By the spring, he knew he wanted to eliminate high-tech ventures from his list and focus on B2C... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
examples have already begun to appear in the form of specialized treatment centers that concentrate, for instance, on cardiac or renal disorders or high-tech medical imaging. This narrow focus minimizes overhead costs and increases... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
behavior by entrepreneurs? Noam Wasserman: Splitting equity with your cofounders is a prime example. My data, drawn mostly from high-tech and life-science startups, show that 73 percent of teams decide on terms in the venture's first... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
Similarly, buyouts of high-tech firms were supposed to be too risky, yet recent transactions have proved the received wisdom to be false. Private equity is a dynamic industry, at whose heart is the taking of calculated risks based on... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
involvement, said Tufano in a recent in-house HBS seminar on "Providing Financial Services to the Poor: High-Tech and High-Touch." Current public policy clearly supports asset building, said Tufano, but 90 percent of tax-based... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
His family later moved to California and Oregon, and the pull of environmentalism was always strong as he was growing up. He graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Stanford in 1998, but found environmental jobs scarce. So he went to work as... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
decision about entrepreneurship Starting your own company after a layoff is a significant decision. While it may seem like an opportune time, research suggests there are some important considerations. “Entrepreneurs coming from high-tech... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
necessarily a panacea for the world's ills. In the new economy, all of the world was supposed to follow the trail laid down by the United States. It was a trail dominated by high-tech firms, by financial firms, by the information-based... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
implications.” It’s important to build up reserves of trust with customers and markets to call on in hard times, he added, and don’t try to start the process when times are already difficult. Dubinsky recalled her media ride on the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
the best they can be. Bartlett and Ghoshal profile several organizations that have successfully adopted this new approach, from large industrial giants such as 3M and Asea Brown Boveri, to newer high-tech firms such as Intel and Canon, to... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
misused to replace higher-paid Americans with entry-level workers from abroad, mainly India. Its use is largely confined to high-tech firms with substantial coding needs. That is the sense of responses to this month’s column. How you feel... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
In the high-tech industry, it's common practice for a governing body to develop technical standards for any given technology. The goal is to promote widespread adoption and compatibility among various devices. The Bluetooth standard lets... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
Great Firms to Fail, Christensen said he believes exciting opportunities await those who come up with ideas for other forms of high-tech start-up financing. When mainstream venture companies become huge financial institutions, he... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
improve. The U.S. high-tech manufacturing community is perhaps furthest along with this effort; it has created a consortium called RosettaNet to develop standards at all required levels—from XML data formats to interaction scripts (called... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
high-tech companies, particularly in Silicon Valley. Megagrants are the most highly leveraged type of grant because they not only fix the number of options in advance, they also fix the exercise price. To continue with our example, John... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- Web
Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
inspired New England's high-tech boom and the spread of companies that began to populate Route 128 surrounding Boston and Cambridge. A number of ARD employees also went on to start their own venture capital firms: William Elfers (HBS MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
mostly from high-tech and life-science start-ups, show that 73 percent of teams decide on terms in the venture’s first month, and the majority finalizes the split at that point. But there’s a real danger in splitting equity too soon and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
software to a range of industries that includes high-tech manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, retail, e-business, and the Internet. Motorola, Intel, Enron, Cisco Systems, Procter & Gamble, Delta Air Lines, and Yahoo! are just a few... View Details