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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
individuals who have an idea and a passion to extend it, but because we want the projects to have some scale, we insist on teams of three or four, which means they have to recruit teammates. A number of these teammates are essentially... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
fact, in recent years, Blum and his team were responsible for more such outsized successes than any other producer, especially in the horror genre. The company’s approach to moviemaking is quite different from that of the major studios: it is not afraid to bet on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
immigration from certain countries has the potential to reduce the competitiveness of the US in the long run, as it mechanically restricts the pool of applicants (not only applicants from these countries, but also any applicants who disagree with the society View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
(Ostrom, 1990). Here we extend this claim to the production of man-made artifacts. The design commons induced teachers to volunteer time and effort to communicate their practical knowledge but created corresponding tensions over interdependent choices for the final... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
fact, this redundant communication works to get projects completed quickly, according to new research by Harvard Business School professor Tsedal B. Neeley and Northwestern University's Paul M. Leonardi and Elizabeth M. Gerber. The Most... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
that for projects that I have. The rest of it, we're doing a turnaround of an 8,000-person company, and I need people who can add value. So I had this amazing job for two years where I had to figure out my own job inside this company. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
keeping with the conference's emphasis on the implementation of information technology, Clark did not merely talk about the new technology initiatives at the School, he also helped demonstrate them for his audience. With Clark providing commentary and conference-goers... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
companies, which at one point were widely regarded as unassailably successful-- a decade or two later, you find them in the middle of the pack, or often at the bottom of the heap. Why is it that success is so hard to sustain? And that was a puzzle. And the result of... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12
consultant Kevin Rumsfeld conceived of the idea for HealthCraft, he had worked resolutely to begin building the company by recruiting a talented colleague to help with marketing and fundraising and a junior member of one of his project... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
Exercises Evaluate how your company measures its emissions and how it might reduce them Identify key emissions sources and variables companies should consider when selecting a mitigation project to pursue Assess the pros and cons... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
the biggest medical insurer in the United States; one of the top-ranked hospitals in the world; and a multiyear research project at HBS that aims to repair the American health-care system. In billing for services, value-based health care... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (A) By: Shih, Willy, and Ying Zhou Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and the technical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20
School Case 310-011 Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
venture and then made very different Rich-consistent choices in a subsequent venture, or who achieved Rich and Regal status only after falling susceptible to Rich versus King tradeoffs in prior ventures. In addition, I'm currently working on View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
down from the semicircular banks of seats in Aldrich 9. Price tags (retailers wouldn't have to re-mark them for discounted sales). Billboards. Sheet music (self-turning scores). Eyeglasses with news headlines projected inside the lens... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
listeners today is to really sit down and think about both at work and at home. Number one, think about your contribution and what is your highest and best use. When you think of the projects and initiatives or tasks that you do every... View Details
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
on riskier projects and strategies. But risk management must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
workers' capacity for growth, and conduct data-based project reviews. To counter the bias toward action—and the unthinking perpetual motion and exhaustion that ensue—leaders can schedule more work breaks and make time for reflection. They... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
different from large, traditional Madison Avenue agencies. Instead of having stable teams based around individual clients, this upstart agency used ad hoc teams that formed and disbanded with every project. Clients commissioned specific View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
batteries. No American battery company comes close to CATL. Under intense political pressure, the project has been delayed and scaled back. A Michigan plant was set to create 2,500 jobs. Ford was to retain 100 percent ownership in a... View Details