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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
is dangerously complacent with its place in the world. Marc Lindenberg, dean and professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, observed that today's challenges are structural, ethical, and... View Details
- Web
Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog
communities? What types of value do they provide? How can brand communities be crowdsourced to help build brands? How are brand communities valuable to and dangerous for brands? How are they best managed? What is the role of influencer... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
there's a real danger in splitting equity too soon and setting it in stone. It is inevitable that change will come to the venture and the founding team, putting that early split into disarray and imperiling the team. Splitting equity... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
ongoing need to maintain balance between rapid growth and corporate focus. It's just as dangerous to grow indiscriminately as it is to grow too slowly." Whatever the outcome, riding the Internet fast track is nothing less than... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
especially dangerous when you’re first starting to work on new ventures. Part of you wants to get something done, to make that first deal or investment, in order to break the ice and get started. Yet if you give in to FOMO, you risk... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market-failure models nor public-choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
"I could see that it was not as dangerous and not cutting as deep in the cornea," she said. "It just made sense." What didn't make sense—at least to some of Krauss' professors at the time—was a woman attending business school in the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
can do research,” he says. And finally, PAD’s iterative approach is based literally on the ground and out in the field, circumventing the dangers of so-called solutions that don’t meet the practical needs of the end user. “We’re doing a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
prevent the extreme downturn we saw in the Depression, and to get the economy moving forward again. Unfortunately, I think there’s a real danger now of people looking back to those major economic events, assuming we’re facing more or less... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
911 from a landline phone. 911 was originally developed in the 1960s. The New York Times previously noted, as the system ages, “it is cracking, with problems like system overload, understaffing, misrouted calls and bug-ridden databases leading to unanswered calls and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
Musk (AI has potential for great danger) or Mark Zuckerberg (the danger hype is overblown)? —Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) SESERI: We’re not worrying about the next five years and narrow AI here. We’re talking about the more distant future and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
"consumer generated marketing." Is it time to ask ourselves whether these trends are always in our best interests as marketers and customers? Is it possible to be too well connected with one segment of customers? Is there a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total meltdown. That is the real cost of our randomized model of research support in the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
can we deleverage our government and still foster growth in the economy? This downgrade is unlikely to have a material negative impact on Treasury rates, at least in the short run. The real danger is to the psychology of businesses and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
"make the numbers" every quarter? Is it dangerous or misleading to give too much emphasis to the idea that profits are a by-product of many other policies and practices? Is it wise to communicate this concept to all levels of an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
accompanied him back to the factory to save almost half the specie in the company treasury. Jacques Downs explains: “Violence was an intermittent but continuing feature of the period, and the presence of a senior partner with Heard’s renowned ’coolness and... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
going to want the job due to its remote locations, potentially dangerous nature, and relentless work schedule; but finding the 10 percent who did was a great challenge I enjoyed,” she says. “The attrition in this industry is huge––30... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
and our faculty have been making their own wise judgments in that regard. My view is that the terrorist attacks underscore the importance of international understanding and coalition building. If there was a danger of the United States... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
post-Soviet era, could be a cruel and dangerous troublemaker. With about one-quarter of the world's reserves of natural gas, Russia was judged to be using its energy resources to beat up on a helpless neighbor and to flex its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
confirmed the fears of many in the West that the wounded Russian bear, smarting from its diminished role in the post-Soviet era, could be a cruel and dangerous troublemaker. With about one-quarter of the world’s reserves of natural gas,... View Details