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  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

both equity and fixed income claims increased significantly because of country risk premium. In the 2014 World Competitiveness Yearbook Ranking, conducted by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Greek business... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 06 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

had a number of challenging conversations addressing how this affects us both in our own experiences and within the system more broadly. Given our positions in an industry that deploys billions of dollars to businesses each year, it is... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

forced to scale back their plans or exit markets entirely.   Because of a combination of cultural context and a lack of robust systems to ascertain the trustworthiness of unknown market participants, building and maintaining strong... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Leading the way in times of crisis

the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, got the city’s transit system back on track using the same take-charge skills he displayed on September 11, 2001, when, as Rudy Giuliani’s deputy mayor, he helped coordinate emergency... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2017
  • Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

Worldwide Week global engagement initiative, the panel featured experts from the design, planning, technology, transportation, and business communities. "The question is not so much whether cities can survive, but whether their growth can be View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

business and operating models could be used to do this in low-resource settings?” “Through these fellowships, we can make all opportunities open to all students, regardless of financial need. That’s an important part of the HBS experience.” —Kristen Fitzpatrick View Details
Keywords: April White
  • December 2010
  • Article

Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model
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  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

formation, and innovation. He is also a partner of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he is a leader of its Innovation practice. Chakravorti has advised over 30 Fortune 500 companies on innovation,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

Retailing, supply chain experts Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman explain how to use analytics to better manage your inventory for faster turns, fewer discounted offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies of retailing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

practical use by managers or teaching by instructors of MBAs and executive MBAs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51126 The Climate Custodians By: Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans Abstract—Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1998
  • Working Paper

CEO Incentives and Firm Size

By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
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  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases is written for students and managers who desire an overview of contemporary information systems technology management. This new edition examines... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

There are many, but here are examples of each. Settings: Air flow and other engineering steps. Before you think of moving back into your office building or shop, you should check on basic metrics that any building manager should easily be... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

management systems used by direct marketers; software for creating and managing graphics, video, and sound; and convergence technologies such as broadband that provide... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture

initially. Through her relationship with Austin, Rachel connected with Alex Iskold, Coach and VC in Resident at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures [formerly View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care
  • Web

Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021

Abi Chaker, the founder and CEO of a Lebanese recycling company, to understand the challenges he faces. Abi Chaker launched Cedar Environmental as a sorting and composting company in 1999, but quickly realized that the waste management... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

moving upmarket to challenge the industry leaders. They point out that Uber, commonly hailed as a disrupter, doesn’t actually fit the mold, and they explain that if managers don’t understand the nuances of disruption theory or apply its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system to rate tires on tread wear, traction, and temperature resistance had been rebuffed by a U.S. appeals court. Although the court found... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace