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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-006.pdf Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We examine the effect of U.S. branch banking deregulations on the entry size of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
(Italy), demographic and entrepreneurial problems (Japan), or excessive consumption and debt problems (USA). Q: One of the surprises I had in reading the book was your bullishness on Russia. Why the optimism? A: I am bullish on Russia... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing themselves as narrowly self-interested players in a system that is overseen by others, business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
case:http://hbr.org/search/813020-PDF-ENG The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital Lerner, Josh, and Tom NicholasHarvard Business School Note 813-096 Whether the government or markets, or a mixture of both, can provide efficient... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
authoritative report estimated that up to 118 million people would eventually move into Medicare and out of private-sector plans. Are we surprised? Public markets and their products are administered by legislators and bureaucrats—competent people, to be sure, but... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
jobs are considerably harder. Not only are corporate venture investors responsible for managing the tricky interface between entrepreneurial firms and an often slow-moving corporation, but they are also typically asked to be their firms'... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
company off the ground,” says Bernstein, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. “At the earliest stages, you have no reputation, no brand name, and you're facing significant uncertainty and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
idea for using Winfrey as the basis for one of HBS' hallmark case studies began simply enough. In the spring of 2002 when Koehn was teaching the first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, student Mia Mends approached Koehn... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
to recent research. Enter the era of “spray and pray,” where venture firms over the last decade have seeded more firms than previously, but with less upfront investment of time and money. As someone who teaches entrepreneurial finance,... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
economics, in the sections that follow, we review three sets of possible interpretations for understanding the empirical facts related to the entry into, and persistence in, entrepreneurship. Differences in risk aversion provide a plausible and intuitive interpretation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion, said one ingredient for his View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
its traditional slow-paced and bureaucratic system of R&D to emulate the relatively fast pace and entrepreneurial system of biotech companies." The firm created several specialized research teams to manage the innovation process.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
"Will we make something strong and good and wise out of all the destruction of the past two years?" Koehn is an authority on entrepreneurial leadership and history. Her previous books include Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit and an expert... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
stage entrepreneurial ventures. Given the inherent uncertainty surrounding a decision to invest in these ventures, prior research has found that experienced investors rely heavily on their investor gut feel—dynamic expertise-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
boycott as well as a shareholder proposal to change its policies on political contributions. The case covers current campaign finance regulations as they relate to business as well as Target's lobbying activities regarding online sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
capitalists influences their investment success. We are trying to understand the drivers of success in new ventures and venture firms more generally. On the first front, we are exploring questions such as what makes up an effective board of directors for an View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
intermediaries in the market for ideas. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1966530 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-005 Non-Equity Financing for Entrepreneurial... 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