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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—Partnerships that foster the translation of scientific advances emerging from academic research organizations into commercialized products at...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
in the economy in order to conserve foreign exchange, and to allocate the limited resources available at the time to a few sectors that could provide critical basic commodities, such as chemicals and steel. The early intervention, under...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
well, a group of scholars has highlighted the importance of partnerships and limited partnerships in promoting entrepreneurship in Europe, the United States, and, more...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
after our intervention. Entrepreneurs with MBAs or accelerator experience did not respond to this intervention, suggesting that formal training can limit the spread of peer advice. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
competitors could only offer three. However, LEGO offers a 30-35 percent margin to retailers, compared to competing brands offering 40-50 percent margins. What if local retailers wanted the higher margins and could care less about turnover? Outsourcing risks. With...
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
your organization’s strategic planning and new business development. "The course’s content and teaching method through case studies and practical examples was remarkable." Vishal Vyas Assistant Vice President at TTK Healthcare Limited...
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Land hired Adams as a consultant to Polaroid in the late 1940s, beginning a collaboration that would last decades. A technical master known for the clarity and depth of his photographs, Adams in his early observations as consultant noted...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
somebody provides data. I need to get out there and create data.” Collectively, these five discovery skills constitute what we call the innovator’s DNA, the code for creating innovative business ideas. By mastering these discovery skills,...
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- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
women stood. "You are Harvard Business School graduates," Sandberg gently chided. "Why do you not automatically stand up?" Too many women, she said, limit their own aspirations because they think they lack what it...
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by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced in the past. Despite recognition's centrality to strategic choice, we have limited knowledge of its nature and its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
(RCT)—was limited in many ways. While statistically rigorous and still considered the “gold standard” in clinical research, traditional RCTs were time-consuming, costly, and limited to testing just one new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
social programs or services, but with limited formal mechanisms for central control and few prescribed interactions between local sites and the center. Tight affiliates are quite similar to business franchises, where the central...
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by Carla Tishler
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
productivity and employment. There are few significant differences between industries with limited and high private equity activity. It is hard to find support for claims that economic activity in industries with private equity backing is...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-096.pdf Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners? Authors:Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract Venture capital firms' ability to repeatedly make top performing investments...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
designing focused experiments to test hypotheses in a capital-efficient fashion in order to achieve product-market fit. But ICOs substantially limit the benefits associated with such staged experimentation for three reasons. Publisher's...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
perceptions of firms' size and/or market power. Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly Authors:Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 1...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
model behind the AKB48 concept and allows students to identify what geographic market—China, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, or South Korea—is more suitable for AKB48’s first move overseas. During the discussion, students also identify the geographic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
limited partners begging to get in,” notes Wilcox. “Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals, and LPs are lining up to invest money in them. But the mediocre and poorer funds are having trouble raising...
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