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- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
In a more general context, these concepts became "people, opportunity, context, and deal." That turns out to be a powerful way of thinking about things. With this body of knowledge, we're able to say to first-year students,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
over time turn even blue-collar workers into capitalists, and Americans-historically passbook savers-into a nation of investors. "For the general public," notes John J. Brennan (MBA '80), chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
discussion about it in comparison with some other alternatives to hierarchy. We then characterize the recent surge of socially engaged models of enterprise and press the case that this turning point warrants reconsideration of the merits... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But the company's proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709050 Relational Investors and Home Depot (A) Harvard Business School Case 409-076 In 2006, amidst shareholder upset over CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation and Home Depot's declining stock price, Relational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
complete, and advertisers can extend this delay both to improve detection of improper partner practices and to punish partners who turn out to be rule-breakers. I capture these relationships in a screening model with delayed payments and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
situation where a smaller number of peers elect to share, and this would end up negatively affecting download speed. We show that this is not the case. It turns out that the behavior of peers is independent of the state of broadband... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
feeling, so therefore it’s worthy of study. The second thing is figuring out that, when you study it, you get better at it. This is not of theoretical interest; the more you know, the happier you can get. When it turns out there is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
written over the next few years — with all the usual ups, downs, twists, and turns — by Russ Wilcox and other innovators in the e-reader industry. How It Works: Cross Section of Electronic Ink Microcapsules Electronic ink is made up of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
and devotes his time to places and people he loves. He lives a powerful life.” While Baer is “incredibly proud” of the team that gave San Francisco its first-ever World Series title, what brought him the most joy was the reaction of the estimated 1 million fans who... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
turn out to be socially undesirable because it may prevent platforms from sufficiently internalizing indirect externalities and direct intra-platform competitive effects. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-113.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
this proposal that is appealing to those Trump voters. Desai: The other aspect you might have expected to see his fingerprints on is not in terms of the agenda but in terms of the process. Part of the Trump promise was negotiation and deal-making. That may View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
genetic insights. Team: Brandon Chi, MBA 2024; Joseph Swift; Amitesh Pratap; Leonie Luginbuehl. Previous Next President’s Innovation Challenge The President’s Innovation Challenge is an annual competition that celebrates alumni and student founders from all 13 Harvard... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
told Lo. “Because if the unit economics of this thing turn out to be even remotely true, it’s the future of food.” Lo’s interest was piqued. She knew almost nothing about farming and had always just trusted that the Western world’s food... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
McGinnis. A venture capitalist and author of the bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur, McGinnis has since turned FOMO and FOBO into a career unto themselves, with a podcast on the HBR network called FOMO Sapiens and a book on the topic in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
on her own long before it was commonplace for a woman to do so and in a field so little known at the time that someone once asked her if her software company made lingerie. In 1972, Kurtzig quit a good job and turned her two-bedroom... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
turning around a publication well into its second century or working to bring home American hostages, Bradley has the front-row seat he envisioned. But he is clearly more of an actor than a spectator. View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
wearing a Groucho Marx mask and started smoking. Each professor finally noticed the smoke and moved the board, only to discover Rick. The rest of the section donned our masks while the professor’s attention was on Rick, so the professor received another surprise after... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
possible under COVID-19. South Korea, a country of 52 million, recently held a national parliamentary election, with 66 percent of its population turning out to vote. Two weeks ago, South Korea’s professional baseball league opened its... View Details