Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2021
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

ultimately delivered value to our customers. What was the most difficult part of your experience as a STEM applicant, and how did you overcome it? Initially I was worried that my potential recommenders at Citi wouldn’t understand why I... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Task Force

meeting weekly at the Harvard i-lab, still talking, still sharing ideas. They also traveled to Mexico City in October 2017 to meet alumni (“I think we had 25 meetings in five days,” Campbell says) and conduct focus groups with potential... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

Move over, venture cap. There's a new kid on the block. It's the business incubator, and it has the potential to remake the way businesses are launched in the Internet economy. Incubators are not really new, of course. "They've been... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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Student Activities - Health Care

students from within HBS and from other schools to develop presentation/pitch skills, work with faculty, and potentially commercialize a health care innovation. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

a world where buying decisions are made not in months or days, but in seconds. The enemy in today’s customer environment is friction. Those who can minimize friction, guiding potential buyers rapidly through the ‘tornado funnel’ buying... View Details

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

the organization and took on new challenges. She also increased her earning potential because the new position rated several grades higher than her former position in CHELCO's job-factoring system. It's difficult for some managers to see... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

campuses asking students, in Shahani's words, to "pitch their dream"—a tactic meant to identify a pool of potential Godrej employees who can help shake up the brand. It, too, has Nisa's full backing. "She's very much a Renaissance... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

could greatly offend them ”) A journey of ‘relational reconciliation’ By asking questions and sharing information about themselves—whatever the results—the tutors engaged in what Ramarajan and Reid describe as “relational reconciliation,” and a View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

nominal and real interest rates in the last four decades, and how their recent trends and their potential evolution in a world characterized by structural changes in the way economies are organized and in geopolitical tail risks might... View Details

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

to match you, as closely as possible, to relevant students, businesses, and programs. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact rockcenter+hbs.edu . Take Poll How would you like to get involved? Early Stage Idea Reviewer Early stage feedback allows View Details

31 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa & Alexander Ljungqvist

15 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

17 Apr 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation

Keywords: by David Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer & Luk N. Van Wassenhove

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

encourages similar candidness and humility in others. By taking the first step in revealing their vulnerabilities, leaders encourage an atmosphere where concerns and doubts are voiced. Potentially unforeseen problems can be addressed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

innovation are high in a monopoly situation, the firm will open both modules and use a pure OS model, because the quality improvement that occurs when modules are opened outweighs any potential competition. Q: But it's not always a good... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

investing, some of the firms were dubbed the “Facebook of investing.” “In some cases those words end up doing a very good job of describing it. In other cases they did not,” McDonald says. And that’s a potential trap. In his study,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

bank accounts. She left her talking points and went on a tear: “I said, guys, if you don’t move now, the fintechs will take you over.” The bankers complained about the difficulty of gaining customers in rural markets with high rates of illiteracy. “I told them those... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

2020
Discussion Paper

Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch

This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety

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