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- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
intangible resources may be best acquired by following a road of conformity in how your company is organized and presented to the outside world. In start-ups in established industries, conventional business titles such as Marketing... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
Think of Maytag and Lloyd's Bank; both companies have prospered by focusing on their home markets of the United States and Great Britain, respectively. Telefónica de España, a midsize telecommunications company, has rejected the role of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration as one of the ways to keep the population base at its size or greater, and even better if that can be a skilled workforce." Bitter Debate Yet in the United States, specific policies and admission levels of skilled immigrants... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
or high potential markets that are $10 billion in size in any given year." The bigger the company becomes, he pointed out, the more important it is that the company lays out a very deliberate strategy.... View Details
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
and one which has at times in the last month had a market value greater than all other major airlines combined, two phenomena that may not be coincidental. Since September 11, however, I have heard countless friends, associates, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
result of deregulation, the derivatives market and the market for mortgage-related securities had exploded in both size and complexity. By the end of the decade, there were as... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? Below, HBS faculty members Robert Steven... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation as a process of judging an entrepreneur, or an idea, or... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
downgraded its sales forecast for the coming year, suggesting sales would now be flat. Meanwhile, online retailer Amazon was growing rapidly and, despite being less than one-quarter of the size of Walmart, now boasted a higher View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
the effects of geographic distance and a "hot" IPO market on the formation of networks in the venture capital industry. The fact that the world is connected through spanning ties has huge effects on the spread of all manner of... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
cluster size and degree of specialization is measured along 3D: absolute number of employees (>10,000 jobs is used as cut-off for a regional cluster), degree of specialization (regional sector employment is at least two times expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
clients, most of whom had low skill and education levels. Marketing at first was fairly simple, said artisan baker David Ekstrom, a panelist at the session who joined the bakery a year ago as full-time manager. "They got the word out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
shifted his research to project finance, one of the hottest applications of leveraged finance today. "The projects I study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm," he notes. Both the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
or "shepherds," rather than micro-managers of the creative process. How the market interacts with creativity and the impact of this interaction on creativity in organizations. The relationship between creativity and... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
"dilution" resulting from the introduction of an online MBA by a highly regarded onsite program, Joshua Doherty questioned the futures of top-tier schools that may lose their ability "to exploit the market power of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
of any organization." Carol Holding associated brand value with sustainability: "As brand value will soon be included in a company's valuation ... we can more than ever monetize sustainable behavior." Others see the market... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one platform market can enter another platform market, combining its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne