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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
because venture capitalists repeatedly sell their portfolio companies through acquisitions, venture capitalists may be able to certify the quality of the assets that an outside... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
But, surprisingly, athletic success impacts applications even among academically stronger students. 2006 Harvard Business Review The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
young firms, given the uncertainties that were a natural part of the entrepreneurial process," Lerner explained. "General Doriot's idea was to create a new kind of organization that established a... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Beer et al., we examine how the subject has developed. We offer a normative review, based on that model, and we critique the assumption that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
he was able to recruit employees and mentors who were inspired by the authenticity of his passion. Besides, financial and non-financial resources are not mutually exclusive. In Cotopaxi’s case the social... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
thinking that all our plans can look the same everywhere, that all our brands can feel the same everywhere, and we have made huge mistakes in that regard," he said. Changes Brewing AmBev, one of View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
business leaders, moderated by HBS professor Myra Hart, at the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. Robin Chase said that being a woman did not hinder her ability to start Zipcar, a service allowing customers to rent cars... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides practitioners with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
In the current squabble over how many skilled immigrants to let into the United States on H1-B visas, academics have fiercely debated whether they create jobs by bringing new skills to View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Andy Grove) in which two of the protagonists—two of the greatest business executives in modern times—would be rolling over in their graves over this policy. Since Steve Jobs’ father was a Syrian immigrant,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
Pretium who previously worked as a research analyst at HBS. “Astoundingly, five of the six most valuable public companies in the world in 2020 were tech View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Healthcare Michael Porter is considered by many to be the world's foremost authority on competition and strategy. He discusses the need for fundamental reform in the way View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
brands. He describes four different ad types and explains how each can influence multitasking consumers. To create an effective media mix, he recommends that companies take advantage of lean advertising principles and adopt a sequential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
dollar-shipping revenue stream. And most well known of all, in 2007, when the company—then the largest e-retailer of printed books—introduced the Kindle and a $9.99 e-book, it... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Company Authors:Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom Publication:Leadership in Action, November-December 2009 Abstract Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
specific technologies for use in particular industries. Consider the difference between the government's successful effort to map the human genome and its failed attempt to... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
would mean navigating the FDA approval process, as well as raising the capital necessary to finance the endeavor. It was up to Bollinger to decide on a strategy for Vascugel's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace