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  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

purely symbolic effects can materialize when former employers are highly prominent because these hires increase the hiring organization's market visibility. Leveraging an idiosyncratic feature of wine markets (i.e., the variable time lag between a wine's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

didn’t just change the way she thought about fitness, it changed the trajectory of her life and career. Stocks, Storytelling, and Spin Bikes That second spin class, and all the exciting adventures that followed, may never have happened if... View Details
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Too Much, Too Soon? Early Funding, Technological Unconventionality, and Innovation Capabilities

By: Harsh Ketkar and Maria Roche
The availability of financial resources significantly shapes firm innovation outcomes, especially for early-stage, innovation-focused technology firms. However, prior research has provided conflicting findings about this relationship: On the one hand, resource... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Technology Strategy; Novelty; Unconventionality; Resource Constraints; Early Stage Firms; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurial Finance
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    Karim R. Lakhani

    Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; communications; computer; health care; high technology; information technology industry; internet; pharmaceuticals; software; video games
    • December 2014 (Revised May 2019)
    • Case

    Bhutan: Governing for Happiness

    By: Sophus A. Reinert, Thomas Humphrey and Benjamin Safran
    Unique among the world’s countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of pursuing Gross National Happiness (GNH). Famously, Bhutan ranked highly on lists of the happiest... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Economic Growth; Governance; Cost vs Benefits; Bhutan
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    • 17 Nov 2020
    • Blog Post

    Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

    This article was originally published in the November 2020 edition of the Harbus. Life at HBS looks different for every student as the campus is filled with people hailing from an array of countries, industries, and backgrounds. The lives... View Details

      Stefan H. Thomke

      Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games
      • 14 Apr 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: April 14

      factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Career Coach

      Nicole Ledoux

      Nicole (HBS '08) is Co-founder/CEO of 88 Acres, a Consumer Products company in the Natural Food space. She has experience in brand building, business development, new product launch, fundraising &... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
      • 13 Sep 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

      chronicles the brand's origins, life experiences, and evolution over time in a selectively constructed story." Keinan recently participated in an e-mail interview about the research and its importance for marketing strategies. Martha... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • October 1996 (Revised May 1998)
      • Case

      Presenting PenPoint (A)

      Containing excerpts from Jerry Kaplan's best-selling book, Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure, this case begins with Kaplan's idea for developing a handheld, pen-operated computer. It follows Kaplan, who becomes the CEO of GO Corp., as he goes on the road to sell his... View Details
      Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Entrepreneurship; Product Marketing; Computer Industry; United States
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      Alumni

      reshaping Novo Nordisk, disrupting the pharma industry, and setting up a once-in-a-generation windfall for philanthropy The Golden Thread Teresa Amabile spent decades studying creativity, motivation, and productivity in the workplace. At... View Details
      • March 2015 (Revised February 2017)
      • Case

      Shanghai: GDP Apostasy

      By: George Serafeim
      Balancing economic growth alongside environmental sustainability and social inclusion was becoming increasingly important in China. The case describes Shanghai's decision to abandon growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as its primary metric of measuring success.... View Details
      Keywords: China; Gdp; Measurement; Measurement Problems; Accountability; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Strategy Execution; Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Map; Macroeconomics; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Accountability; Accounting; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Corporate Governance; Shanghai
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      • 2012
      • Chapter

      China: The Indigenization of Insurance

      By: Elisabeth Koll and David Faure
      The concept of insurance was introduced to China in the early nineteenth century by Westerners trading in Guangzhou and practised essentially among them. We argue that indigenization of insurance, in particular life insurance, was a slow process that stretched from the... View Details
      Keywords: History; Insurance; Insurance Industry; China
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      • May 2011
      • Article

      Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting

      By: George Serafeim
      I analyze Embedded Value (EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Cash Flow; Contracts; Equity; Profit; Value; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Earnings
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      Anne Marie Checcone

      right next step in their career. Anne Marie is a product leader at Facebook and has 15 years of experience in technology as a product and go-to-market leader.  Anne Marie’s coaching expertise is based on... View Details
      Keywords: Fintech; Financial Services (All); Technology

        Srikant M. Datar

        Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

        Keywords: consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products
        • June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
        • Background Note

        The Decline of the British Cotton Industry (Abridged)

        Supplements the general argument concerning the decline of the British economy by showing how vertical specialization, horizontal competition, and entrenched job control combined to create incentives for management to adapt to changing international conditions by... View Details
        Keywords: Technology; Business Cycles; Organizational Structure; Consumer Products Industry; Great Britain
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        • Career Coach

        Jamal Eason

        Jamal (HBS’11, West Point ‘04) enjoys working with alumni & students to navigate their career paths in product management and general management in the tech sector. Leveraging his 16 years of experience in general management,... View Details
        Keywords: Technology

          Howard H. Stevenson

          Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

          Keywords: forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products; forest products