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  • 18 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

Keywords: by William R. Kerr, William Lincoln & Prachi Mishra
  • 2013
  • Book

Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability

By: John Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Culture; Behavior; Society
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  • March 2006 (Revised December 2009)
  • Compilation

Skype

By: Peter A. Coles and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Presents eBay's rationale for its $2.6 billion acquisition in late 2005 of Skype, a fast growing voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) provider. Describes Skype's history, technology, business model, and competition, as well as government regulation of VoIP services. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Communication Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Telecommunications Industry
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  • Career Coach

Nicola Pugliese

Nicola Pugliese (Wharton ’93) leverages her experience in global marketing and brand management to support students and alumni pursuing careers in marketing, product management, business development, general management and sales across a... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail

    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
    • 26 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

    hundred and fifty volunteers helped screen and interview the applicants who met the September 6 deadline. Winning applicants then received hands-on coaching from McKinsey & Co. and Springboard to help them refine their business View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Web

    HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

    investors gathered together for an unprecedented two-day convening which provided a rich opportunity to forge connections through Harvard Business School with leaders of high-growth, deep tech, and biotech ventures. The goal was to... View Details
    • May 2020 (Revised July 2020)
    • Case

    MassChallenge

    By: Rembrand Koning, Andy Wu, Nataliya Langburd Wright and Tarun Khanna
    The case explores the strategic decision of global non-profit startup accelerator MassChallenge on whether to pursue a for-profit spinoff, discussing: (1) the costs and benefits of this decision, (2) how best to manage the risks of the decision, and (3) alternative... View Details
    Keywords: Accelerators; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Startups; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Decision Making; Strategy
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    • Article

    Strategic Networks and Entrepreneurial Ventures

    Much research suggests that social networks shape the emergence and development of nascent ventures. Scholars have argued that founders' and firms' networks influence innovation and the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities, as well as facilitate the... View Details
    Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Value; Body of Literature; Research; Outcome or Result; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Relationships; Management Practices and Processes; Power and Influence
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    • 17 Feb 2015
    • HBS Case

    HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

    been a draw for innovators of a different sort—technology workers who began populating the suburbs of the South Bay, which came to be known as Silicon Valley, in the 1970s and '80s. In recent years, they have increasingly put down roots... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    From Chalkboards to Chatbots

    Artwork/animation by Greg Meeson/hitandrunmedia.com; shutterstock.com Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace, becoming an integral part of how we live, work, and interact. It is therefore critical for current and... View Details
    • 19 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

    working on purchasing clean energy to meet our needs on a 24/7 basis - a much more stringent goal than prior commitments - and focusing on innovation and advocacy that will help meet those goals." This article was originally posted on the... View Details
    • 29 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Research Symposium 2014

    research going on at Harvard Business School. Held each May on the HBS campus, the event provides the opportunity for a few faculty to share recent work with an audience of doctoral students, HBS staff members, and other professors. This... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
    • 31 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

    HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development work focusing on innovative consumer-marketing strategies, she is... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service
    • 14 Aug 2006
    • HBS Case

    On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

    "Is it better to be loved or feared?" Machiavelli asked. At Harvard Business School, Professor Scott Snook uses this classic quote to help students become more effective leaders. Using two of the most successful college... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
    • 19 Nov 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

    carlballou Most industries are in major digital upheaval, but retail particularly seems in some kind of disruptive spin-cycle. As the retail season eneters its most crucial time of year, we take a deep breath to contemplate research from Harvard View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • August 2007
    • Case

    Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Andrea M.A.F. Minardi
    Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue them. He was approaching an American private equity fund to raise money. Describes Alecrim's challenge in creating SAT... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Utilities Industry; Brazil
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    • 04 Feb 2013
    • News

    The 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

    • 21 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

    go back and haggle over the minutes of a meeting,” says Thomke, whose recently released book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments encourages companies to test new business... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 08 Nov 2016
    • Blog Post

    Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla

    Current Position: Founder, NextWave Hire Current Location: Cambridge, MA Tell us what you’re up to these days. Along with a friend that I met at the Harvard Business School Innovation Lab, I've started a... View Details
    Keywords: Technology