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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
PublicationsThe Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup Authors:Noam Wasserman Publication:The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Princeton University Press, in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows, which has... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
over the distribution of knowledge. To date, they have been far too concerned with the size of their royalties, at the expense of public utility. The fate of discoveries we all rely upon, and the intellectual property that results from... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
And Crowds Collide To better understand the gaps and overlaps between crowds and experts, Nanda and co-author Ethan Mollick, of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, began their study with a full set of applications for theater... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
costly failures. The book seeks to provide guidance to would-be "emulators"—corporate managers, university administrators, and policy makers—about how to adopt the best of venture capital and avoid the common pitfalls that... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
are eighteen chapters around the United States. It's almost in every major city that has a lot of technology. And there are many similar organizations in most major research university environments. There's a group called WEST here in... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
Public Option would be run by private insurers but pay Medicare’s prices to providers. “We propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by... View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
Sandusky did to young boys for the next 14 years. Ironically, had Penn State turned Sandusky over to legal authorities in 1998, the public would have viewed its actions as protecting the victims, thereby enhancing the University's... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Future of Market Capitalism
Finance, and Industry; Senior Lecturer, HBSSir Ronald M. Cohen, Chairman, Portland Capital LLP, Portland Trust, Bridges VenturesLawrence H. Summers, Director of the White House's National Economic Council; Charles W. Eliot University... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
and David Moss Publication:Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 Abstract After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
they took to the streets. Can Chinese universities come to set global standards in the twenty-first century? It is surely possible, simply because of the resources they are likely to have. But here much depends on what happens... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
leads the largest megachurch in the United States, has written more than 20 books.) Writing books is an institutional act," said coauthor Marvin Washington, an associate professor at the University of Alberta. "It's the pastor's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
Boston College's greatest marketing campaign lasted about six seconds. It's called the "Flutie Effect." In a 1984 game against the University of Miami, BC quarterback Doug Flutie threw a last-second "Hail Mary" pass 48... View Details
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
they will do it in different ways, with different goals. Which are you? Here's a quick test. I plunk down two magazines in front of you. One, Time, has Warren Buffet on the cover, under the headline "The Optimist." The other View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
described as a vulture capitalist, now gets a serious hearing when he urges Apple to make better use of its billions in cash or Dell to improve the terms of a management buyout. Today, university endowments and state pension funds invest... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
he is at odds with the theories of economist Mancur Olson, whose 1965 book, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, sparked a generation of political scientists and regulation theorists, including George... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
Case 707-559 Describes the joint efforts of the German health plan KKH and Essen University Hospital to develop an integrated practice unit (IPU), and the West German Headache Center's efforts to improve the quality of migraine care.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
most heartless one of all is the Shanghai Jioa Tong ranking. Chinese universities Tsinghua and Beijing University, these are in the top 20, 30 or 40 depending on the rankings in the other rankings, but they are 150th and beyond in the one... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
because of what they did, but because of what they are? That's the question that intrigued Jonas Heese, who recently joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit. While earning his PhD in accounting at Maastricht View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding