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- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
verify their gut with a more quantitative analysis. What type of investor are you? Neither approach is necessarily better, says Huang. Rather, both are investors’ ways of managing and rationalizing risk. Checklist investors deal with... View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
the improved ability of firms to replicate business innovations has affected not only productivity, but also the nature of business competition itself. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-016.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAtHoc: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
crisis. From what’s been reported by the press, the crises in the past, he’s been able to bluster through. There may be different crises here, where it’s not a question of, say, talking firmly to your bankers. For the most part, it looks like he’s always had the View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
which the management team will consider how best to position the firm for the future. Actis could move in a number of different directions by expanding into new geographies, asset classes, or deal sizes. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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central role in private equity transactions will be highlighted. Module 3: Deal Management This module explores the important choices that private equity firms make after closure of the transactions. In... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
of problems that cannot be predicted in advance must be resolved. Dealing with uncertainty requires different organizational choices in terms of team design, contract structure, and IP management. Consider,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top A Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals Negotiation, Organizations & Markets James Sebenius Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 The Anatomy of... View Details
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certain sectors, the cost of funds, for example in fintech lending, can become prohibitive. While the macroeconomy effects startups in all markets, the volatile nature of the macroeconomy in emerging ecosystems makes such strategic View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
self-cleaning rat cages for psychology labs. Learning that pharmaceutical companies use large quantities of rats, they negotiated a deal with him and over the next few months also executed a roll-up strategy that eventually made them the... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
disciplined firms are at the market and segment levels if the same focus and precision don't exist in customer choice as well," Narayandas points out. In the second phase, Narayandas identifies three key aspects of managing customer... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 28 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni
pace of the work, the flexibility of the schedule, availability of physical accommodations, etc.’ This is a point where you can say, 'These are the things I need to be successful, how might those show up in this opportunity.'” As Hamilton also notes, keep in mind that... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
influenced the industry by proving that intellectual property could be monetized through alliances with big pharmaceutical partners, according to Pisano. Genentech cut its first deal with Eli Lilly in 1982 and new entrants were excited.... View Details
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Jason A. Kilar
format television and film, and distribute it through a second window on the Internet. That was a very big deal in 2007 and continues to be a big deal. What we’re trying to do at Vessel is, in many ways, to look at the entirety of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
way—flexible work. But flexibility means a lot more than a day or two a week to “work from home”: 93 percent of your employees want more flexibility in when, not just where, they work. They want choice and they are leaving their roles to... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
implications. We also show that pooling choice behavior is influenced by changes in the underlying newsvendor model parameters. In robustness tests, we show that choosing a pooling outcome is especially pronounced among participants who... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Abstract Social interactions occur when agents in a network affect other agents' choices directly, as opposed to via the intermediation of markets. The study of such interactions and the resultant outcomes has long been an area of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
volitional (experiments 2A and 2B) and are driven by decreases in trustworthiness engendered by decisions to hide (experiments 3A and 3B). Moreover, hiders do not intuit these negative consequences: given the choice to withhold or reveal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” The paper shows that this definition coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a “strategy formulation game,” in which such strategy endogenously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne