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- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and 2000. We also show that immigrant inventors were more productive during their life View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
earlier in their life cycles than ever before. It was so easy to reach liquidity in such a short time that a lot of people believed that was the norm. We're now going back to the viewpoint that it's going to take five or ten years when... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
corrections. The cycle repeats until a satisfactory solution is reached, often requiring many costly and time-consuming iterations. To appreciate the extent of the difficulty, consider product development at BBA (now International Flavors... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- November 2024
- Teaching Note
Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?
By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Making; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Business Cycles; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Market Timing; Expansion; Diversification; Valuation; Value Creation; Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation Offer; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
managers and collaborators alike can employ to halt the "hot potato" cycle and minimize productivity loss in global collaborations. Identity Workspaces for Leadership Development Author:Gianpiero Petriglieri Publication:Chap. 19... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
of the use of venture capital investment. Do you think the use of project finance is affected by market cycles as well? And if so, what economic factors do you feel would influence a boost in interest in this sort of finance? A: The field... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery and religion. We then profile the characteristics of inventors and their life View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
the world of startups. It also describes how certain industries, like energy, are poorly suited to the investment profile of traditional venture capitalists. The product development cycle is too long and the capital required to develop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
restaurant reviews with Yelp's algorithmic indicator of fake reviews. Using this imperfect indicator as a proxy, we develop an empirical methodology to identify the points in the life cycle of a business during which review fraud is most... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
vulnerable are economic interventions to capture by politicians, how are captured resources used, and how costly are the resulting distortions? This paper answers these questions in the context of the credit market in India. Integrating theories of political budget... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
agreement may represent the culmination of a massive negotiation campaign with multiple, related fronts: financial, shareholder, internal corporate, labor, supplier, political, and regulatory. Complex sales with long cycles and many... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911028-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B): http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911029-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911030-PDF-ENG Assembling Smartphones: Takt Time =/= View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55694 forthcoming Journal of Monetary Economics U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract— Foreign banks’ lending to firms in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
reinforce losing streaks. In contrast, when leaders believe in other people, confidence grows, and winning becomes more attainable. Leaders of organizations in success cycles are a little like rabbits, constantly reproducing. In losing... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Jon K Rust. "StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 800-166, January 2000. (Revised April 2000.)
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
perhaps not 9 percent, but higher than today's 5 or 6 percent. He finds wisdom in a quarter-century-old article titled "The Answer Is Nine" by Stephen Steppe, who argued that returns on commercial real estate may dip during View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
have been touched by the powerful winds of change. Widespread recessions are not new, of course. The United States, like most other industrial countries, has been buffeted by business cycles in different forms and to different degrees... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
give students an opportunity to understand the creation of deferred tax liabilities (DTLs) and the life cycle of a DTL using an example based on the difference between Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) depreciation, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne