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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
focused on IT businesses and involved male protagonists. Mends thought it would be exciting to explore a wider range of model companies and leaders, and Koehn, whose work has often focused on entrepreneurs in unconventional settings,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
staggered. These findings indicate that welfare beneficiaries consume welfare-related income quickly and then attempt to supplement it with criminal income. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089576 Pioneering View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
entrepreneurial community's success has attracted capital on an unprecedented scale. The venture capital market and the market for initial public offerings have gone to unparalleled valuations. Perhaps most interesting, however, is the... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Publications August 2013 Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Multilevel Linkages Innovating without Information Constraints: Organization, Communities, and Innovation When Information Costs Approach Zero By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well spent, or pressure from regulators to demonstrate that they are serving a View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
a book about immigrant entrepreneurs from the 1790s to the present day, and planned to begin with Alexander Hamilton. It turns out that he was more of a policymaker than an entrepreneur, but if I had to single out one person as the most... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
eradicating the shortage of classroom desks in public schools. What should Immelman do? Will Lapdesk achieve its mission? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808008 Lobbying for Love?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
lays bare the multidimensional crisis at hand. The public health crisis is anything but isolated: It has revealed and deepened both economic and social crises characterized by rising inequalities, unfolding on the backdrop of an... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
you can't prove who you are.” The scope and scale of the project, and its progress so far in already enrolling 200 million people, make this the largest-scale project of its kind in the world, says Harvard Business School Professor Tarun Khanna, an expert on working... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
lecturer of business administration. What should nonprofit leaders do as they face an economic recession? Lynda Applegate: Think like an entrepreneur I have been interviewing non-profit and for-profit leaders to identify how they are... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
provides a rich description of Enterprise Risk Management in action and shows how Hydro One executives arrive at a shared understanding of the risk profile of the company. In the narrative a diverse group of managers (the chief executive, the chief financial officer,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less prestigious as well, and less... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
paper concludes that savings contributes to growth in locations where entrepreneurs and companies lack access to necessary technological advances, in countries far away from the "technological frontier." To overcome this... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated workforce shifts that had been gaining momentum before the public health crisis, thrusting employers and workers into a new era within months. Joseph Fuller, a professor at Harvard Business School and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
investor, I feel powerless to control or even understand how my mutual funds operate." Anupam Bordia comments, "the mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds." There is also a suggestion that the job... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth; exploring the relationship between business and democracy; and the role entrepreneurs and firms, not governments or markets, have played in driving globalization. "Important subjects... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman