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17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

A few years ago anyone could become an entrepreneur. All you needed was a half-baked idea and a phone to hear offers from salivating venture capitalists. Now the environment is much more difficult. Question: Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur in this View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

unique to sports, of course. Based on our surveys with executives from a wide range of fields, the rate at which managers lose relevance has increased dramatically, even over just the last decade. The world is changing faster than ever before; View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

incorporates a focus on gender issues. His studies include a comprehensive global survey of board members, as well as a series of case studies that approach the issue of women on boards from an individual, an organizational, and a country level. This year, Groysberg... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

disappointed in the performance of the company. You think the technology is solid but the management team, and particularly the CEO, isn't very strong. The board has begun to take a more active role, the founder-CEO has been made the... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

Technologies within the Firm: Evidence from Cardiac Procedures," [PDF] Management Science Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor In health insurance, the two fundamental issues are first, to achieve universal... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

the employees, and conducting interviews. Maverick Advertising is a pseudonym; it captured the spirit of the agency. The CEO/founder envisioned a new kind of unpretentious, collegial ad agency without the industry's characteristic love of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

Xylem, which offers water technologies and services. "Sometimes it's one or the other, but we're trying to integrate the two. We don't want people to see it as turning away from higher ambition." On The Ground What kinds of strategies do... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

trillion mandate and no assurance of reversing the inexorable rise in health care costs. Paradoxically, although America has the most technologically advanced and expensive health care system in the world, its citizens continue to get... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

consumers (or retailers) are unlikely to pay. But the acquisitions provided a convenient distribution channel for residential customers who want to drop off or return goods ordered online, and moved new volume into their existing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

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