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- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation, published in the October 2015 Academy of Management Journal and co-written with Emily Cox Pahnke and Benjamin Hallen of the University of Washington and Dan Wang of Columbia... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
leaders who understand their purpose, are true to a set of solid values, lead with their heart, establish connected relationships, and demonstrate self-discipline), among others. These philosophies, based on a lot of anecdotal evidence, describe the kind of people we'd... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
venture fund, you made an Option B choice at the time of the sale. And if you sold your stake in December 1999 and then sailed around the world or began work on a series of nonprofit ventures, you made an Option C choice at the time you... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
if we take on the responsibility, we'll work to control our own costs. Health care is 17 percent of our gross domestic product. If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
advice from the rediscovery group was more encouraging, too. ("Play slower and work your way up to full speed," one expert wrote. "Kirk Hammett didn't learn it overnight!") "The experts who felt the experience of inexperience ended up... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
about making money, but about managing it. "Financial literacy is not something that exists in the inner city," he said. Foxworth said that any conversation about working hard and staying in school... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
To transform lofty aspirations into quantifiable impact, nonprofits need to become more familiar with traditional business tools such as business plans, precise mission statements, and goal setting to improve their performance. That was the message from Jeff Bradach,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
colleagues David R. Clough, Tommy Pan Fang, and Balagopal Vissa, Wu recently conducted a review to examine how the entrepreneurial community thinks about acquiring resources, publishing their work in the paper, Turning Lead Into Gold: How... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
"Investors should put more emphasis on how brand IP is managed in the environment rather than on the IP asset itself." Paul Jackson adds that "... it's got to be businesses (that defend IP) ... as laws get in the way of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our lives-from friendship and dating to news and business. What makes social media so different from traditional media? Answering that question is the key to making social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
because you're so busy trying to avoid drowning in work and the demands of the market). Take the time this summer to pay down all forms of organizational debt. Don't let the excuse, "we haven't had the time" stop you from cleaning up some... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
MySpace puts the power of individual identity in play. You're not anonymous on a social networking site—you're exactly the opposite. You're presenting a managed self to the world. Q: These sites often have wonderful demographics from an... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
on the books of a company, Zulu Inc., being considered for acquisition. It comes to the attention of the acquirer that for some years Zulu has employed the same accounting firm. Directors at Acme, concerned about having their accountant review the View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
competition among firms? In the working paper Competing with Privacy, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andrés Hervás-Drane "consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
industry forecasters," says Greyser, who, with Vadim Kogan, analyzed the issue in the HBS working paper: NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success. Achieving the same kind of success in Sochi may be more difficult. There are... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
Thomke and Eric von Hippel Tapping into customer innovation can certainly generate tremendous value, but capturing that value is hardly a simple or straightforward process. Not only must companies develop the right tool kit, they must also revamp their business models... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
requires four seats at least." His current projects include histories of German management thought and German capitalism, but working on the Porsche cases has given him a new appreciation for... View Details
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
stop for a drink, eager to reward business initiative. What's missing in Europe are the incentives and the network.— Enrico Bastianelli,ProSkelia Pharmaceuticals Expanding on that theme, Ted Llana, vice president of Global Commercial Strategy for Biogen Idec, recalled... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
muscle with plenty of available resources. Regarding the strengths and weaknesses of women business leaders, Lewis remarked, "I've worked for terrible female bosses and terrible male bosses. I always used to generalize along gender... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
study with Deniz Aydin, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School. Test case in Turkey To test how small firms manage and use their debt, Aydin and Kim turned to extensive lending data from a... View Details