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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
The venture capital industry is ripe for disruption: just like other leading mainstream companies have been for years, according to HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen. As a keynote speaker at the conference and author of the managerial bible The Innovator's Dilemma:... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Why have various countries of the former Soviet Union taken such dramatically different economic paths since the Union's breakup? This has been a lingering puzzle of the post-Cold War period. Lithuania, for instance, has turned its attention westward, pursuing economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
The role of government in Africa must be to establish an "investor friendly" environment, according to Obiageli Ezekwesili, a panelist at the Africa Business Conference's debate on "Government and the Enabling Environment." As finance director of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
Almost everyone has dialed a simple phone number—be it to order a pair of socks or reserve a flight to New York—only to end up navigating a seemingly endless labyrinth of options, all because a mechanical voice continually invites them to "Press 1 (or 2, or 17)... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
Hilah Geer and Martha Lagace met recently with Porter to talk about the lessons Japan teaches governments and companies about competition and strategy. Below are excerpts from the interview; part two will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the right note for the future? And is it a field that graduating MBAs... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next e-Wave." The current shift on the 'Net, said Iansiti, is toward a... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
Internet pioneers looked at everything from Wi-Fi "hot spots" to the future of broadband at a recent telecommunications conference at Harvard Business School. The issues were debated at the Bandwidth Explosion colloquium held April 23-25. Professors Robert D.... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Photo by Mary Ellen Mark At first glance, perhaps, the writer John Irving might not seem to have a lot to teach the corporate world. As the author of such celebrated bestsellers as The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp, Irving has spent the majority of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business. In the following e-mail interview, Jones explains the origin... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital. Why? According to a 1999 survey,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
How does an industry get born? To answer that question, it helps to turn the microscope on one fairly new industry: biotechnology. A still further way to get inside this question, according to HBS professor Monica C. Higgins, is to take a closer look at the subject of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University Professorship, the highest professional... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 05 Dec 2014
- News
Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
announced on October 14 a plan to recapitalize U.S. banks with $250 billion of the $700 billion approved for the financial rescue plan.) For more faculty views on the global economic crisis, visit www.hbs.edu/economic-crisis/. — Roger Thompson and View Details
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
Business Review Is the US Losing its Ability to Attract Highly Skilled Migrant Workers? Martha Lagace 01 Oct 2018 | HBS Working Knowledge Unpacking the Gift of Global Talent with HBS Professor William Kerr... View Details
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The Gift of Global Talent
Losing its Ability to Attract Highly Skilled Migrant Workers? Martha Lagace 01 Oct 2018 | HBS Working Knowledge Unpacking the Gift of Global Talent with HBS Professor William Kerr Ryo Takahashi 01 Oct 2018 |... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn found the leadership lessons in the ill-fated voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance so valuable that she wrote a case study on it. HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Vogel was the most hopeful about Japan's ability to recover, but saw it as a tough job for Japan's policymakers. "It is not clear how you combine the best of their old system with the new," he cautioned. "That is still going to take a few years to sort... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer