Managing Start-ups - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

discovered that the Internet was full of reinvented wheels, and that we needed that historical memory. Those youthful companies needed the wisdom of the established business world. And established companies that had the brand, management... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

Singapore and Malaysia. Capital in Taiwan and Hong Kong went to the most efficient firms, including small, start-up entrepreneurial firms, and was not based on the political or ethnic status of such firms, he said. Extremely attractive... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Sneakers Game “Our goal is to be the kind of start-up that would terrify Nike—if Nike didn’t already own us.” Ron Faris, general manager of S23NYC, a Manhattan-based digital studio owned by sports apparel... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs have an incredible backstop of management experience and wisdom available to them that, too often, they ignore. Why don’t startup founders make more use of their investors? Many entrepreneurs are hesitant to ask advice from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

coming of age of biotechnology. The disappearance of "blockbuster" drugs could create new management challenges for pharmaceutical companies. — Gary Pisano The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

Academy of Management Review, HBS professor Christopher Marquis and coauthors Gerald Davis and Mary Ann Glynn develop a framework for understanding an important aspect of this issue: how social and governmental forces in local communities... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

not born but made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each of us. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53588 forthcoming Journal of Service View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

impact on our trajectory." Last year, with three remaining locations in the Boston area, Finale's original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island-based holding company where Conforti now serves as View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details