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January 2013
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EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (B)

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Brent Grinna has one customer signed up for his alumni-networking mobile app, and is now trying to choose among three possibilities for a CTO. He decided to contract with a friend's company, Dashfire, to create a prototype of the app, and has signed up Brown University... View Details

Keywords: Start-up; Mobile App; CTO; Hiring; Scaling; Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Mobile Technology; Technology Industry; Massachusetts; Boston

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January 2002
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Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

By: Scott Shane and Toby E. Stuart

The question of how initial resource endowments—the stocks of resources that entrepreneurs contribute to their new ventures at the time of founding—affect organizational life chances is one of significant interest in organizational ecology, evolutionary... View Details

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Research; Company History; Initial Public Offering; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans

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31 Oct 2017
News

Predictions for the Future of Small Business Lending and Fintech

08 Nov 2012
HBS Seminar

Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto

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By: Alison Wood Brooks

Professor Brooks studies the psychology of conversation and emotion—topics at the intersection of how people think, feel, and interact. From pitching ideas to seeking advice, from asking questions to giving compliments, from talking about (or hiding) our feelings and... View Details

Keywords: Anxiety; Emotion; Emotion Regulation; Reappraisal; Negotiation; Trust; Performance

Price Bargaining and Competition in Online Platforms: An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Deal Market

The prevalence of online platforms opens new doors to traditional businesses for customer reach and revenue growth. This research investigates platform competition in a setting where prices are determined by negotiations between platforms and businesses. We compile a... View Details

24 May 2017
News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

experience to Vanguard in 1982, joining the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania–based pioneer of index funds when it was only seven years old. By 1989, the year he was named president, the company was regarded as an emerging industry leader in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Shaky Business: How Handshakes Win Negotiations

handshake today seen as a mere formality or does it still serve an important purpose in modern society? He joined with HBS Professor Francesca Gino, Juliana Schroeder of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Jane Risen of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Jean Luo

living in L.A. for the first time," she says. "I still intend to start my own company, just not immediately after school. When it's the right idea and the right time, I'll have my experiences from Outdoor Pass and HBS to draw... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Tech

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

we all experience some degree of this pressure in our own daily work lives, in this series of studies I examined what happens to team dynamics and performance when the pressure is significantly intensified. Ironically, Gardner found that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

doctoral students to design and implement experiments and surveys to study negotiation and decision making, with an emphasis on how biases affect decisions. Tara earned her B.A. cum laude in Psychology (Psi Chi) from Boston University.... View Details

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Generative AI - Alumni

AI tools like ChatGPT can help. To start, you’ll need a well-organized draft resume (HBS format works well) and a job description. When given information about your background and the role, GPT can generate text options that highlight your skills and View Details

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Adriann Dolphin

section and the HBS PRIDE club. Being part of the HBS community is like Finding a whole new family. The section experience is my favorite so far. My section is like a 90-person family, we support each other through academics, recruiting,... View Details

21 Mar 2019
HBS Case

The Ferrari Way

drivers in pure, unadulterated pleasure. “The overarching goal is to create an experience—a sensual experience,” says Harvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomke, who wrote a case study about the company in 2018. While many companies talk about creating a customer... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

country that we go to, we always visit the open market, because that’s where you see real living,” he says. “You see it out in the open.” "Coming down the mountain at full speed, there’s nothing like it." People experience nature in all... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

just on low prices but also with a singular customer experience that no other retailer has yet managed to duplicate. "IKEA has made very clear choices about who they will be and to whom they will matter, and why," Montgomery says. Clarity... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

cases Stefan personally wrote, I also am using the BMW Chrysler case that I taught 16 years ago. My experience in the class years ago encouraged me to pursue this adjunct teaching position. —Les Williams (MBA 2005) Back to top “Managing... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

signs of trouble, issues that aren’t visible to me, don’t wait to come to me until you have an accompanying solution. Bring me your early indicators and together we’ll devise experiments to tackle the challenge.’ Explicitly signaling you... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

09 Nov 2021
News

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

Keywords: Mentoring; mentorship

01 Mar 2024
News

Counter Intelligence

When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

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