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- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
One reason is that the better-backed ventures had twelve to eighteen months of financing when the market for Internet-based start-ups tanked a year ago. Another is that, through relatively astute management, less well-financed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and investor patience. "Once a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
forthcoming Entrepreneurship and Collaboration Inter-Organizational Collaboration and Start-Up Innovation By: Aggarwal, Vikas A., and Andy Wu Abstract—This chapter presents an overview of the literature on collaborative relationships... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, a panel moderator. "But that strength has to be nurtured." She added, "We count on start-ups for job growth in America. View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Should I keep control of my company? How do I turn potential into profit? How can a resource-challenged... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
executive suites, start-up firms, and even entire professions and industries. Within finance, in particular, decisionmakers’ political views influence investment returns, credit ratings, asset allocations, loan terms, and bond yields,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
centers like New York to entrepreneurial centers like Silicon Valley and Boston," he explains. "In addition to providing access to information about investments and invitations to join syndicates, firms with broad, far-reaching networks are often more... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
start-ups is different than in established large organizations. More often, a director is an investor, friend, expert, and resource. Involvement of a director is more intense, often resulting in daily or at least weekly contact with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School professor first offered his Founders' Dilemmas course in 2009, a mere 42 second-year MBA... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
start-up that provides clean drinking water to more than 64,000 rural villagers in India. The company uses a franchise model in which local entrepreneurs filter and sell water to members of their community. "In India, 87 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
Groupon Effective? Is Groupon Good for Retailers? For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
Kuemmerle, who has studied more than fifty start-ups in twenty countries, says entrepreneurs today should take a litmus test of five questions (See sidebar). In this excerpt from Harvard Business Review, Kuemmerle discusses two of the... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Cheaper" program. To Read More: ARTICLES HBS Cases: LEGO Stephan Thomke on managing creativity for 80 years. Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups The power of 'lean' start-ups, according to Scott Cook. How Small Wins Unleash Creativity... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
entrepreneurial human capital across several generations. We test this idea by looking at the spatial location of past mines across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
extension of organization boundaries. In the future, will this phenomenon be limited primarily by the environment, or by the ability of managers to take advantage of it? What do you think? Original Article A byword of the new economy has been "partnering."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer start-ups in the middle of the 20th century. We use mines as an instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
capital firms, the boards of directors, and the outcomes of these start-ups. “One lesson that emerges from our analysis is to find an experienced (and successful) partner!” One current project examines the value of boards of directors in View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
the ground there, and became interested in a start-up called New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) through the work that our student teams have done every January since the storm as part of the HBS New Orleans Service Immersion. This year... View Details
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
their portfolio, it does not involve complicated coordination. Some actions can bring immediate, measurable benefits—if not a chip supplier to substitute for one in Japan, then perhaps a start-up with a better idea. The concept should... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
security; routing and messaging; and B2B Web service networks. While the big players such as IBM, BEA, and Microsoft control the platform, start-up opportunities exist with Web services deployment and application development, Bhusri said.... View Details