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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
limited partners begging to get in,” notes Wilcox. “Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals, and LPs are lining up to invest money in them. But the mediocre and poorer funds are having trouble raising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
profit-making; unlike financial performance, there is no common currency of measurement and aggregation," Ebrahim explains. "The value created by social-sector organizations accrues to society rather than to a set of owners or shareholders, which raises issues of... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
names; however, much less attention is paid to where the cadaver came from. A. Tensions Around the Supply and Demand of Cadavers Supplying human cadavers is left to the responsibility of others, most notably the anatomy course instructors... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
sexism's darker side [and] it is an attractive way to justify inequality" because men get to see themselves as a provider, not as an oppressor. Meanwhile, women get praise and attention in the workplace—but without the corresponding... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
much media fanfare. Then, if the actual performance failed to met expectations, people wrote them off and shifted their attention to the next innovation. Examples include multimedia kiosks, voice recognition, artificial intelligence,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand for consistent quality, and View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategy that was explicitly based on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of its competitor, Ford.2 In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a top executive with AT&T, argued that managers should pay especially close attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52652 In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
student life. "Think about our mission," Clark invited the attentive audience, "and think about this world. Our mission is to educate leaders for that world." To accomplish this, Clark explained, the School is pursuing three important... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
design—reflecting a lack of understanding of the entrepreneurial process—and problematic implementation. Government must play a careful balancing act, combining an understanding of the necessity of playing a catalytic role with an awareness of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (forthcoming) Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well hidden, and limited reputation systems reduce... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
issues. In order to explain the dynamics of these alternative plots, I show that risk experts engage in various kinds of boundary-work (Gieryn, 1983, 1999), sometimes to expand and sometimes to limit areas of activity, legitimacy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
effectively required that McArthur, like Eisenhower, accomplish most of his work in private - one-on-one or in small groups - and that he pay extremely close attention to the personal needs of his faculty and staff. McArthur did this in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has carefully analyzed their incentives, but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
attention until things fall apart. And they’ve gotten older: They don’t worry so much about their own sex lives, they worry about their daughters’. You’ve developed a new communications technology. What’s it all about? It’s talk-back TV.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than traffic laws are to automobiling or... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
relationship between motivation and overconfidence using two distinct, but often conflated, measures: better-than-average (BTA) beliefs and overplacement. Our results suggest that motivation can indeed affect overconfidence, but only under View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne