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    The Venture Capital Cycle

    In The Venture Capital Cycle, Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner correct widespread misperceptions about the nature and role of the venture capitalist and provide an accessible and comprehensive overview of the venture capital industry. Bringing together fifteen... View Details

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    Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

    who can deliver value in a global context, drive new levels of innovation, and build accountable, high-performance organizations. Key Benefits The Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East prepares you to make the bold market moves... View Details
    • 29 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

    Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan & Wesley Yin; Financial Services
    • February 2000 (Revised May 2001)
    • Case

    BET.com

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Pauline M Fischer
    Black Entertainment Television, a leading cable programmer, is launching BET.com, an Internet portal targeted toward African-Americans. This case examines the challenges facing BET management as it defines its service offerings and target customer segments in a... View Details
    Keywords: Product Positioning; Ethnicity; Internet and the Web; Age; Race; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

    Launching Technology Ventures
    Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

    • 14 Jul 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: July 14

    an asymmetric market structure, with a few large P firms and many small OS firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-149.pdf Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation Authors:Gastón... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 17 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

    wouldn’t otherwise do, and good incentive systems create a market of sorts inside companies with a series of pressure points, Hall says. Whether it’s raising your hand for extra work, prioritizing innovative projects, or staying with a... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
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    Placement - Doctoral

    experienced coaches. HBS coaches teach students writing, presentation, and slide design skills. Faculty advisors are there every step of the way to help students navigate the complex job market. HBS students can also access resources... View Details
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    Innovation and Productivity

    In this stream of research, Professor Steinwender examines how firms adjust their innovative behavior and productivity in response to changes in the external environment. Analyzing Spanish firm-level data, she finds that two mechanisms proposed in the economic... View Details

    • Oct 2020
    • Conference Presentation

    Optimal, Truthful, and Private Securities Lending

    By: Emily Diana, Michael J. Kearns, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
    We consider a fundamental dynamic allocation problem motivated by the problem of securities lending in financial markets, the mechanism underlying the short selling of stocks. A lender would like to distribute a finite number of identical copies of some scarce resource... View Details
    Keywords: Differential Privacy; Mechanism Design; Finance; Mathematical Methods
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    • 03 Dec 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Ginger Jin, University of Maryland

    • July 2019 (Revised April 2021)
    • Case

    Salary Finance

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In April 2019, Asesh Sarkar, co-founder and chief executive of Salary Finance Limited, a London-based FinTech, faced tough choices. Sarkar had founded Salary Finance with Dan Cobley and Daniel Shakhani in 2015. The company’s value proposition was quite simple: partner... View Details
    Keywords: Credit; Financing and Loans; Wages; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry
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    • 25 Apr 2023
    • Op-Ed

    How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

    late 1970s, when China ramped up its manufacturing production and began to open its economy to the world, its small and mid-sized factories struggled to gain access to the large consumer markets of the... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
    • 09 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

    startup figuring out how to market a 3-D printer. “You should approach a product launch as an organizational process, and start with the buyers, not the product” Although 3-D printers have been around since the 1980s, they didn’t find... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail
    • 02 Feb 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Does Apple Go From Here?

    limited to the Mac and it had to become a PC peripheral as well. Once he made the move to the PC market, he created the potential to access a much broader market than his core customer base. The Apple core... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Jun 2014
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    First Look: June 3

    Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Aug 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: August 29, 2006

    Business School Case 706-496 Apple has reaped the benefits of its innovative music player, the iPod. However, its PC and server business continue to hold small market share relative to the worldwide computer over the past few years. Will... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2013
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
    After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz, sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
    Keywords: Nutritional Information; Obesity; Weight Loss; App Development; Business Startups; Nutrition; Health; Information; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry
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    • 02 Nov 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

    merger of Office Depot and Staples, ending a marriage that would have reduced the number of big box office supply specialty chains to two, the other being Office Max. In seeking to stop the merger, the Federal Trade Commission argued that “office supply superstores... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
    • 10 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 10

    entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one another. February 2015 GfK Marketing Intelligence Review Beyond... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne