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- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
offers a gratifying moment to pause, smell the roses, and reflect on what I’ve accomplished to date. But more importantly, being included among such illustrious company is a source of motivation to keep working hard and accomplish even... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
reflect on what I’ve accomplished to date. But more importantly, being included among such illustrious company is a source of motivation to keep working hard and accomplish even more in the future.” Can you tell us about your current... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
brainstorm: Why not post a few signs on the highway promising free ice water to parched travelers on their way to the Black Hills? Maybe they’d buy something at the same time. Today, old-fashioned billboards and bumper stickers continue to be Wall Drug’s primary View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
proposed; the latest one by Prime Minister May triggered the resignation of a number of key ministers. All of them struggle to deal with a fundamental tension: how to square barrier-free trade between the UK and the EU, especially across... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
or geniuses in particular domains, it may actually become the most important source of creative breakthroughs.” A deeper dive into the “inner work lives” of everyday people Amabile and several colleagues started to dig into that question... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
talent in order to remain successful. The authors argue that the source of competitive advantage already exists within every organization and that how a firm creates and uses talent is far more important than how the firm attracts it. The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
acquisition of small- and medium-sized companies, Baker first observed the corrosive effect of corruption. "I didn't come out of HBS equipped to deal with it," he recalls. "It was so harmful to the business process, I started trying to... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of four articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Banks are the principal 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
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of capital. Negotiation Processes as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
study Brazil, India, China, Turkey, Indonesia, and Mexico. They—and others—fascinate us because their ambition level is reminiscent of ambition in late 19th- and early 20th-century United States. Their companies and entrepreneurs are literally trying to build future... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
innovation in design spaces related to new sports, like rodeo kayaking and kite surfing. The participants care passionately about their sport, and (because it is new), its design spaces are still largely unexplored. People can also be passionate about things they use... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
is in the interest of entrepreneurs to grow their firms to a size that sufficiently improves their chances of survival and success. Moreover, large firms are a source of employment, and hence new venture growth is important to society as... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
source of development visions and capital.” His vision for New Center and for Detroit is “a more granular, more organic, more diverse source of development visions and capital.” On this day, it’s been six... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
himself and coauthors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara in their new book, Can Japan Compete?, before leading a discussion on approaches to Japan's economic recovery. The conversation sparked considerable debate around his own theories on the nature and View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in part because they work with... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
conflict is likely to have distorted their perceptions. Even if the parties are not already "at war," every effort at deal making is a dispute waiting to happen. To paraphrase Roger Fisher, breakthrough negotiators mediate their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
owned homes or could borrow under such conditions. As a response, the modern housing finance system undergirded by the federal government arose during the New Deal to make credit and liquidity available to people wanting to buy a home.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
market. So the future of Li & Fung is selling to the Chinese market, not just sourcing manufactured exports from China to the West. In fact, we expect to expand into selling to India as well. Those are the new markets of the world. How do... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
on Friday and Saturday nights. Vacations were no better: 51 percent checked continuously when on vacation. If they lost their wireless device and couldn't replace it for a week, 44 percent of those surveyed said they would experience "a great View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow