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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
platforms at once. “Nobody had streamed a service at that scale before,” says Wilson. “We were holding our breath, because we were basically betting our business that this was going to be a successful pivot.” It felt like a sharp turn not... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Colgate's North American business and in 1997 was promoted to her current post as executive vice president for CP's North American and European business. She played a big role in Colgate's emergence last year as America's toothpaste leader, and some observers are View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
people would not have considered ‘hot.’” Same with the storage software company Virsto, which Correlation put $1 million into in 2011. When it was later acquired for $200 million, Correlation’s bet paid off handsomely. Big windfalls are... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inflection point in industrial capitalism, in which there's been widespread exuberance and some bad bets made to this point, but in which a range of more positive outcomes are on the way. Lorsch: To me, the trouble began in Silicon Valley... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Silbermann, so he was more aware of his abilities. This leads to the ultimate VC question: Do you bet on the jockey, or do you bet on the horse? Elaine Gilde (MBA 1978) New York Angels View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
Governors in 1966 (Ferguson, appointed in 1997, was the third), closed the conference with remarks at a Sunday brunch. Other featured speakers included BET president and COO Debra Lee and former FCC chairman William Kennard, now a... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
my bet is that 2037 will be very different as well. And this will be due to entrepreneurs, not private equity funds or public company boards." This may be linked, as D. R. Elliott suggested, to the rise in the "knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
they may have lived through some years of particularly bad returns. This tends to make investors more cautious. Interestingly, fund managers older than forty—just old enough to have lived through the 1987 crash—were particularly unlikely to View Details
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
being transferred from people that support the Greek economy to people that bet against it, through sorting of stocks and derivatives. Why am I not focusing on what everybody else is talking about, the country's debt? Because I am less... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
policy, scale, and entrenched competition have erected formidable barriers to entry. The major global giants like Amazon and eBay have either exited the market or not even tried to enter it. Thus, think of Alibaba as a pure China play where you are View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
the risk of placing one big bet on a single location or food concept. The model can scale up simply by adding more kitchens, and offerings can be tweaked rapidly in response to data-driven insights. For its part, Foodology uses... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
globally,” he says. “The infrastructure to source and sell was so massive that volume continued to grow despite rapidly deteriorating credit quality.” Seeing the absurdity of it, Paulson bet against the market at the peak of the housing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
to corn prices, but at the expense of exposure to the oil market." Risky Bet On Oil With oil prices currently at record levels, that doesn't seem like such a bad tradeoff to make. But Reinhardt points out that we've seen this story... View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
eventually balance imports. Business people must understand where markets and countries are headed by analyzing the present and then extending current performance trends forward three to five years. Although each has issues, Singapore, China, and India are currently... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new products and jobs to the nation's... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
many more products than the average business, and face the challenge of having to manage a large, constantly changing product portfolio.” One solution to that challenge, Elberse says, is for executives to consider a “blockbuster strategy,” making large View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
economy and lower-income consumers. Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence Technology was getting dull earlier this decade, says David Yoffie. But the sudden arrival of digital convergence has turned the tech world upside down. What are the right View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
They're betting that if they don't fix all of their office PCs, the result may be troublesome but not catastrophic. Can I soften the impact on my personal life? You can to some extent. For example, you can check with the manufacturer of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
Altiostar Networks, Inc. Dahod outside his Tewksbury, MA, office “The best way to deliver on shareholder value is not to focus on shareholder value. Focus on meeting customer needs and taking care of employees. That leads to success.” A serial entrepreneur with an... View Details