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Sid Shenai
a panel for the India Conference examining entrepreneurship opportunities beyond IT. Yet Sid is most excited about his nonprofit work. With three HBS colleagues, Sid developed a business plan for Paper For All, a nonprofit that... View Details
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Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog
startups that aim for social impact; new ventures launched by established corporations; and bootstrapped, “low tech” businesses. The case protagonist will join as a guest in most sessions. Students can choose to take a final exam or complete a final View Details
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Introduction - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
industrial settings ranging from automobile plants to paper mills. Researchers will find photographs relating to U.S. industry as well as business operations in Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The collections’... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
reason that these people are more constrained by bumpy labor markets than others. The paper has implications for founders and funders alike. Entrepreneurs, Roche says, need to be true to themselves if they’re launching because of a lack... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
time the stock price dips, you've set up a situation where managers can never lose. What kind of incentive is that?" Meulbroek asks. In fact, the assumption that underwater options dramatically weaken managerial incentives may itself be invalid, according to a working... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- News
New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes
“The last quarter of the year, quite frankly was the toughest in my life,” Jones told the Sun-Times. “I’d never been in this situation before, but I knew that something needed to be done, and I don’t regret doing the right thing.” At 37, the View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
What is consumer empowerment and what does it mean for you as an executive? HBS professor Luc Wathieu outlined his views in the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace.Lagace: In your paper you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
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Mara Group
By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess
Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Africa
Soltes, Eugene, and Sara Hess. "Mara Group." Harvard Business School Case 114-060, February 2014. (Revised December 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
Roth discusses these and other markets in his reflective paper What Have We Learned from Market Design?, which draws from decades of his fieldwork. In the paper, published in 2008 and updated in September 2010, Roth discusses how issues... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Trek Talk
due north and landed in Stockholm, where they made headlines in the local paper after spending their days learning about high-tech opportunities and visiting Ericsson. Meanwhile, several hundred of their classmates were in Silicon Valley... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Hair Today
precious: In addition to her studies, Winters was guardian of her sister, who was 14 at the time. “I remember thinking, ‘This is absolutely crazy,’” she says. After writing a paper about Drybar and its disruption of blowouts, Winters... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story
their high-margin business of print classifieds with the lower-margin business of online classifieds,” Gilbert told Editor & Publisher. “If that's all they're doing with their online operations, we'd suggest that they shut them down tomorrow.” Instead, he advises, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract—This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog
will choose a topic that can cover anything that is VCPE-related. Examples of papers are posted on Canvas. A small group of authors will present their findings to the class. N.B.: the paper will be due... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
carefully analyzed their incentives but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related strategic dimensions of the certification market: the publicity given to applications, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
Working PapersAgency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Abstract This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
Productivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before
may actually hinder the most important part of problem-solving: actually solving the problem. Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance Taking time to reflect on work improves our job performance in the long run. Related Research Papers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
of globalization continues today. Business Solutions for the Global Poor edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton (Jossey-Bass Publishers) This book, edited by HBS professors and associates, presents the View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
household debt were growing quickly. That combination is “a natural signal of an outward shift in the supply of credit, which then sows the seeds of its own destruction,” the researchers write in their working paper Predictable Financial... View Details