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01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

the garbage. I arrive in Cambridge, soaking wet, and race to the HBS guys' office to deliver the proposal. They eye me skeptically as my sopping wet Staples bag finally gives way, dumping everything onto the floor. Casually as I can, I... View Details

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Our findings illuminate the micro-foundations of innovation in firms by highlighting a trade-off between organizing patenting activity to maximize scope versus speed. Publisher's link:... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

he continues. “This company’s service allows e-mail messages to be sent from anywhere in the world to a post office near the addressee’s home, printed out as a letter, stuffed in an envelope, and delivered in just a few days. They’re even... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

long been based on the principle of delegating tasks to subordinate officers (take the hill without specifying how, leaving it to the judgment of the relevant unit commander—called Aufgabentaktik), while the American army tends to follow... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

Weights and Hurdles This is the sort of heavy lifting that has occupied A.D. Frazier, Jr. (85th AMP), COO of ACOG, for the last five years. Asked how he's enjoying the workout, the gruff but amiable Frazier tilts back in his chair at ACOG's downtown View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Web

Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

Purpose-Driven Board Leadership Lex Schroeder Author tag Board Diversity Getting to the Boardroom There’s an immediate warmth one feels while in conversation with Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990). Sanchez’s home office is in sunny Arizona, but... View Details

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

offering beyond fashion to electronics, mobile phones, and even groceries. As the battle for India's lucrative e-commerce market gains pace, experts wonder—who will win? Is India a winner-takes-all market, or is there space for more than... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

here. Culture tells us how to behave in a meeting. It tells us who gets to take up space automatically and who has to work for it. It tells us whether we should follow the rules or cut corners, whether we should share or hoard... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

entrepreneurship flourish in many sectors, expanding beyond just the software, high-tech type of startup, into financial services and the future of blockchain, for example. We want to support people going into many different spaces during... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

not I was cut out to be in business. So when we pulled up in the summer and realized that we had to do another reduction in force I went to our Chief Operating Officer and asked if I could take a package. My kids at the time were one and... View Details

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Agarwal Abstract—Machine learning process technologies usher new questions regarding their potential complementarity with existing human capital. Within the context of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examination process, our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Web

HBS - Financials | From the CFO

million in the prior year. Salaries and benefits, the largest component of operating expenses, increased approximately 3 percent to $386 million. With faculty and staff pay rates remaining flat in fiscal 2021, the variance primarily related to the roughly 5 percent... View Details

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

around the office and a team lunch. However, you can effectively onboard your interns and ensure they feel integrated from day one with effective processes and ongoing support. For example, all employees at GitLab have been remote for... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

and the City Library, and most importantly, helping the Office of the Mayor develop a system of collaboration where startups can play a role in doing pilots with dozens of city departments without the typical red tape.” “San Francisco is... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

encourage shared reflection and support. The Class of 1959 Chapel became a gathering place for those wanting a quiet space for prayer and contemplation, and in the late afternoon, many members of the community came together outside the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

10 Nov 2015
First Look

November 10, 2015

contemplating how to do just that—but not by tackling a new frontier of the geographic variety. Rather, the firm was further exploring the digital frontier via a new distribution channel that would allow it to better compete in the online marketing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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