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  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean startup—a methodology that has proven successful for many View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

starting companies. Maybe I should try to forget that I have an investment in several decades of a business career, and see if I can learn fresh, new things." I asked young people who were starting companies to tell me what they were... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

declined or held flat, and return on invested capital (ROIC) has suffered dramatically. This decline in ROIC has been exacerbated by the significant growth in store square footage before the recession. Retail store count exploded through... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles

By: Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel
We use mutual fund manager data from the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Stocks; Information Technology; Price Bubble; Asset Management; Experience and Expertise
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    Gerald C. Chertavian

    Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

    • 05 Jan 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

    sophistication in methods, it is now possible to more judiciously allocate marketing resources. By Sunil Gupta and Thomas J. Steenburgh. 5. The Future of Social Enterprise This paper considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 27 Apr 2015
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

    auditorium.Photo: Susan Young Professor Sunil Gupta, who chairs the General Management Program, led the question-and-answer session. Gupta asked whether anything had surprised Virts during his space station... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace
    • 10 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

    of race and inequity. Led by Professors Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Sandra Susan Smith, the course was designed to ensure a consistent understanding of the race and racism not as tangential to U.S. history,... View Details
    • August 2009
    • Article

    Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles

    By: Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel
    We use mutual fund manager data from the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Price Bubbles; Investment Experience; Investor Age; Trend Chasing; Investment; Experience and Expertise; Age; Behavioral Finance; Price Bubble; Information Technology; Stocks
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    • 02 Jan 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

    failing MBA students are about helping the students overcome their fears of engaging in classroom discussion, to improve the frequency of their classroom contributions.) These are all points made in a new book by View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 18 Apr 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

    channels are our most valuable customers.— Susan Vobejda, Gap Inc. Susan Vobejda (HBS MBA '97), senior director of brand management at Gap Inc., agreed with Nuzzo that the Internet works best in support of... View Details
    Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail
    • 17 Aug 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

    Last month, US Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and senators Cory Booker and Ron Wyden introduced draft legislation to legalize cannabis federally. Some commentators say that by expunging federal, nonviolent marijuana offenses from criminal records, the proposed... View Details
    Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
    • February 2003 (Revised October 2003)
    • Case

    Versity.com

    By: Leslie A. Perlow
    Versity.com has grown from four college students working out of a dorm to a $125 million venture capital-backed company. The young founders and new professional managers struggle to create a company vision and grapple with the question of whether to acquire another... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Growth and Development; Organizational Design; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Conflict and Resolution; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Teams; Core Relationships
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    • 14 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

    commonplace, she said, but it's a false dichotomy because "we are all raced, and we are all gendered." Giddings talked of "racist, classist vitriol" in writings by renowned nineteenth-century feminists Susan... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 23 Nov 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

    Streaming accounts for about 85 percent of today’s music consumption, but sales of vinyl records have grown steadily over the past decade, owing to their rediscovery by members of Gen Z who view them as a timeless medium that offers... View Details
    Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music
    • 19 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

    the peak of the market a significant fraction of institutional money was controlled by young managers, thanks in part to rising prices for tech stocks, the researchers say. We asked Greenwood to discuss the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • 08 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Hire a Millennial

    to their concerns by making superficial policy changes. Companies struggling to recruit millennials should consider GE’s example of bold action and completely rethink the packages they are offering to attract View Details
    Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
    • 25 Aug 2017
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

    reason–people tend to form brand preferences when they’re young. Young consumers who are alienated by a perception of corporate support for Trump might be lost for a lifetime, not just an administration. “A... View Details
    Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
    • 07 Apr 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

    peacekeeper?" We take thousands of young recruits every month and train them to operate some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world under some of the most challenging conditions imaginable.— Scott A. Snook Such an identity... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace