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- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
affected venture capital investing between 1975 and 1998. We find that venture capitalists with the most industry experience increase their investments the most when public market signals become more favorable. Their reaction to an increase is greater than the reaction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
firm profits. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/groupon-2014-03-01.pdf August 2013 Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Immigrant Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
becoming an entrepreneur, and the one on which past entrepreneurial research has focused, going all the way back to Adam Smith, Joseph Schumpeter, Israel Kirzner, and other pillars of economics. In my own research, I also approached... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
minds and money of Western business. This book presents a new view of development, centered around entrepreneurial behavior by both public and private sectors. The author charts China's and India's trajectories of development—where they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise in green consumerism and public... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
primarily looking for their entrepreneurial tendencies and collecting a lot of demographic data as well. When I began to sort by gender, I found that the career paths taken by women from HBS were very, very different. It led me to start... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
the impact on national prosperity that a vital entrepreneurial climate can have. In the long run, the significance of these policies looms much larger. Much of the discussion in the book has focused on specific policies and analyses. From... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
believe that there exists a much stronger creative and entrepreneurial drive in the West and the Northwest than on the East Coast A culture of creative risk-taking exists on the West Coast more so than on the East Coast. This culture has... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
strategies and organized their businesses. The contributors to this new book bring out this rich diversity on a much broader canvass. Q: What have you learned about the success and impact of businesses around the world? A: This book shows... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
families. As Professor of Management Practice and co-head of the HBS Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit, Myra Hart has been particularly interested in women in business. Since joining the faculty in 1995, she has created both... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
the solution. However, commercializing the innovation may also stretch his organization too thin and bring his team into a business, the software industry, completely foreign to them. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
distribution chains. Big companies also tap promising ideas for innovation through their relationships with entrepreneurial growth companies, whether as suppliers or as investment targets for corporate venture capital. To help small... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water consumed, waste removed, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
well, since the economic environments of emerging markets such as Chile, Costa Rica, or Mexico vary so greatly. Since business groups are such an integral part of most economies, understanding how these networked organizations function... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
was a firm undergoing a very interesting transformation. The company had been run by its founders for many years and had a very distinct entrepreneurial culture. Then, the founders retired, and the firm hired an outsider as its CEO. He... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Allocation Theory By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various productive activities in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne