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- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
with higher salaries. But new research indicates that although many tech firms do tend to favor employing younger workers, older native workers are not losing their jobs as a direct result of the immigrants being hired. "We don't find... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
possible in the work world. For the individual women who are thinking about professional re-entry, it's often hard to break the frame of "what is now" to think about "what could be," Hart says. For example, a marketing professional in a high View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
were in a new world where high tech ruled. We got to hear outlandish claims that stocks were riskless. The Dow did climb past 11,000 in the next few months but then went nowhere before crashing in September of 2001 and then again in 2002,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
significant amounts of capital required to get the company to an exit event given the changing climate for clean tech investments? These questions became more pressing following Lerner's call that Bluelock had chosen not to continue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
shares several similarities with the US labor market of the early 20th century. For example: Labor was scarce then, as it is today. Firms operating in the most dynamic sectors, such as tech and semiconductors, which, incidentally, are... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
hearts. That is what health tech entrepreneur turned public leader Todd Park said, and I agree. Hire people with a set of modern skills around user-centered design, product management, UX and UI, or software engineering, and who have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
awards relatively modest, they limit efforts to misdirect these funds. Unfortunately, the funding of clean tech innovation under the stimulus program has been characterized by a lack of clarity and consistency. In this uncertain... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
percent to Y Combinator’s Hacker News. And of course, they dominate the conference rooms of venture capitalists and tech companies that are making decisions on investing in new products. “When you are trying to grow a startup, the people... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
venture capital and private equity by announcing the Vision Fund, the largest tech investment fund in the world at close to $100 billion. The reputation of legendary SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son depended on the success of the Vision Fund, a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/972.figures-only August 2013 Management Science Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly visible proxy fight with prolific activist investor Daniel Loeb of hedge fund Third Point. Since that time, Loeb and his colleagues had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
like high tech or in multinationals—and then how to manage it better. The answers to those "how" questions are the first four sections of the book. Gilbert: The key is that what can be understood as the strategy of a company is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
focus too much on formal contracts in order to transfer knowledge or other resources to their company, rather than less formal arrangements, the researchers learned. “With early stage tech companies, there is a huge emphasis on working... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
firms and energy companies, whereas it's not that important for financial institutions. Affordability is important for healthcare companies, but less so for tech companies. If you understand which 20 percent is important, you have a real... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
with ROI-based, smaller implementations. Ed Kania If most tech needs are being met through large application packages, why entertain the idea of having smaller software companies pitch? If you believe that the Web is the next new wave of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
gotten a death threat on his phone, using the N word, telling him to get out of town. He says he gets about 30 or 40 death threats a day in those days. So, it was a very, very rough time in Montgomery, Alabama. I went to Georgia Tech in... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
more generally. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211075-PDF-ENG If We Ran The World Hałaburda, Hanna, Radka Dohnalova, and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 711-490 Cindy Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld (IWRTW) in February 2010, as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
getting it out. And then she should test the whole pitch thing with friendly investors before she takes it into the much harder arena. Build a team. Don't despair if you don't have a tech degree and experience, because you can partner... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
best way to get more water and energy and clean air is to avoid wasting what we have. This is not high tech or pie in the sky; it's investment, negotiation, and allocation of costs and benefits. In short, it's business. For financiers,... View Details