Professor Paul Lawrence - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

be approached from the perspective of competitiveness, and it must be based on business opportunities in the inner city that are genuinely profitable," observes Porter, who was named Bishop William Lawrence University View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment

beyond doing, and this insight has stood me well in my various careers. Hold Your Tongue Dick MacKinnon (MBA 1962) Listen to Dick MacKinnon describe his moment: IN THE SPRING OF 1962, SCHOOL WAS almost over and I found myself immersed in Alan Moorehead's book The White... View Details

Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services

18 Sep 2019
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Level Up

younger audiences were finding new platforms; the world outside of the sports bubble was changing and sports was lagging. It felt like seeing a crack in the foundation. A year out of HBS, her head still swimming with Professor Clay... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth

01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups

the founder of the modern VC industry, but there’s been remarkably little written about him,” says Josh Lerner, a professor at HBS who specializes in the study of private equity. “He is the first person who basically ran an institutional... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance