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- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
period—some 31,160 new ventures listed in the NCCS-GuideStar National Nonprofit Research Database, produced by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. The findings in this second analysis mirrored the first:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
proxies of expected returns, the implied cost of capital's (ICC) measurement error properties are relatively unknown. Through an in-depth analysis of a popular implementation of ICCs by Gebhardt, Lee, and Swaminathan (2001) (GLS), I show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
"traditional" set of HBS cases that address a host of industries. What function does this firm perform? What are its economics? How can you deliver this function more efficiently? How can you build a competitive advantage against rivals? The third level of View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
skills do we need to teach managers of such businesses? Where you have massive uncertainty, you can't rely on a lot of the traditional tools of analysis to support decision making. But, once we get outside those traditional tools, what do... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
companies while US doesn’t have these types of companies and therefore the industry-specific materiality map may not be applicable. Another challenge is the lack of data and company disclosure in Asia makes quantitative analysis very... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
inventory losses by alerting retailers when items are given free-of-charge to friends and family by purposely not being scanned by a clerk (called “sweethearting”), when barcodes are covered, when items are left in a shopping cart, or when scales are circumvented. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
each time we added seats, average attendance and contributions increased. I made a cash-flow analysis and revenue projections that helped lenders understand our business model. We’re now able to negotiate and secure reasonable financial... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54899 forthcoming Management Science How Do Sales Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Analysis in the Nerlove-Arrow Framework By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung G. Park Abstract—... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
PublicationsThe Power of Small Wins Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
underlying this micro-process research. Analysis of the rate of citation of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational studies research reveals that open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
US history for hundreds of years, so when I read headlines like that, as a consumer and as an Indian American, I’m already skeptical: Why do you think my demographic matters now? We’re doing some data analysis in partnership with... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
second only to the manufacturing industry. The analysis also showed that energy producers started making substantial investments in renewable energy long before sustainable investing and ESG scores existed. Even more telling, Cohen says,... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
to improve their products along with safety for their customers. About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: JohnnyGreig] Related Reading The Hard Work of Failure Analysis At Booking.com, Innovation Means... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without engaging in infringement. Our empirical analysis shows that on average, NPEs behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms—a one standard... View Details
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
that people associate with global brands. Then we surveyed 1,800 people in twelve nations to measure the relative importance of those dimensions when consumers buy products. A detailed analysis revealed that consumers all over the world... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
would be trained in "the thorough analysis of and in the administrative control of a manufacturing company....taken up not only from the standpoint of a man who has to reach decisions and carry them out, but also from the standpoint of... View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog
power. The exposure to the development and uses of power in many different social settings including the private, public, social enterprise and non-for-profit sectors, and at various points in history will allow a comprehensive analysis... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
time when she was reflecting on her three-decade career working in the gas and electric utilities industry and realized that she could credit a series of strong leaders and mentors for helping her rise through the ranks. Starting as an entry-level technical writer... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
gear up to raise a Series A. “When I spoke with Diego, he shared five problems they were thinking about and gave me the option of what I wanted to work on,” Westphal explained. “The project I chose allowed me to spend 90% of my time working with Diego. I did a bunch of... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance By: Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper complements the manager-centered analysis of dynamic capabilities with a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman