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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: baona] Related Reading Are You a Digital Manager? What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
important implications in an election year marked by widespread protests. Harvard Business School Professor Vincent Pons teamed up with Amory Gethin, a fellow economist at the World Bank Development Research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
they are—unless they can figure out a way to thwart discrimination. That’s the frustrating takeaway of the new research paper “Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay,” written by Matti Keloharju, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
politicians and the voters who elected them—fostering greater employment, say. SEC enforcement actions can be costly for companies, about a third of which go out of business after being targeted. Heese... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
the team failed to make the playoffs for the first time, primarily because of the diminishing abilities of a few star players. What can business leaders learn from the tales of these coaches as well as... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
a chance to implement an effective legal strategy in all these countries. The RIAA's legal strategy is hopeless and smacks of short-sighted panic. Those who dream of legal solutions do not recognize the truly View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
Q: Your working paper uses the stories of three different companies—YesMail, TiVo and Clust.com—as a lens for examining consumer empowerment. YesMail is based on opt-in advertising, TiVo offers interactive TV services, and Clust, until it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
will still get high-quality health care, but within a system designed around the concept that tradeoffs exist. When health care organizations act this way, they begin to thrive in unprecedented ways. A: Morriss: Obviously, when your... View Details
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School, and Meghan Busse and Florian Zettelmeyer, both professors at Northwestern University. Somewhere, a radiator leaks For the study, “mystery shoppers”... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
The "sharing economy" is a burgeoning business model in which people offer their personal belongings and personal services to others, usually through online marketplaces that facilitate the transactions. It... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
toward Silicon Valley; in the euphoria that drove Internet stocks to unbelievable heights; in the intrusion of e-mail and surfing and "dot.com" everything. At a more profound level, it is also clear that this revolution will... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
Social enterprise groups are traditionally organized along one of two lines: The affiliation model favors decentralized control, while the branch model concentrates control at a central headquarters. Most social enterprise groups choose... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
Act, which was passed by Congress in 2010, created a mechanism to deal with many of them, alongside Basel III the most recent iteration in global banking regulations. Important details of both are still... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
in the physical distance between sites and culture differences that multinational corporations have to deal with and, yes, creating a positive setting for voice can be a serious challenge. However, bosses... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
markets is a sector notorious for its lack of differentiation between players. Once location has played out its magic, retailers tend to get squeezed in a business... View Details