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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over time?” A123 raised $378 million... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
children in real-life situations as they learn experientially through play in familiar environments using a mobile device. canada PIXIE is a website that connects passionate, small product companies, designers, and artisans with their... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
employers to cut losses by dipping a toe in the water first. “They should start with a small task, and build up experience before trying to do a more advanced project,” he says. “It familiarizes them with the market and the set of people... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
responding with creative solutions to puzzles posted on the Facebook website are given interviews regardless of what their resume information might contain. Many are hired. Such analytics often represent "deep indicators" of the kind increasingly View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
is all too familiar and similar to how I felt seeing the human dignity stripped from Tamir Rice, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, and many others. There were no iPhones and no social media then, though. We watched the story of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
go-to-market strategies in parallel: The students represent an audience that is familiar with Confi, so market acceptance and credibility is already there. The universities are able to roll out the program, so Confi will achieve critical... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
companies grappling with the familiar (yet complex) questions that confront any organization trying to do business across borders. According to Collis, every strategic choice that multinationals face falls into one of the following four... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
improvement that I am familiar with seems to always create jobs and grow companies and countries." What do you think? Original Article It has taken economists, journalists, and the rest of us years to get used to the idea that over... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
entities across sectors to refine them and arrive at meaningful and useful standards. Besides holding companies accountable, we also have to help them as they transition to pursuing social objectives alongside financial ones. Too few managers are View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
backgrounds to begin to learn by the case method. If you don’t have any familiarity with how to do analysis, it’s just not easy to feel prepared to exercise judgment. That’s the first place where we’ve seen a giant opportunity through... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
to adopt mentoring habits that have been key to the Valley's success over time, despite the recent fallout. So-called "mentor capitalists," in Leonard's view, are "smart angels," distinct from venture capitalists and angels, who are cashed-out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
. helped establish brand familiarity by putting up promotional displays . . . and giving away calendars, glasses, and other items bearing company slogans and trademarks,” business historian Walter Friedman explains. 24 For example,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
“Number, please” was the oft-repeated request made by the more than 100,000 mostly female switchboard operators in the early 20th century. Anyone who had a telephone grew to know the familiar voices that connected them to the outside... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
If you're saving for your child's college education, you're probably putting money in growth funds, hoping that the returns a decade or more down the line will be enough to pay for tuition. But what if your returns fall short? It's a dilemma that's becoming all too... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- Web
Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
discussion into when and how to effectively innovation, and when and how to renovate. MODULE 2: Sensing and Assessing Market Opportunity. In this model, we will set out to understand useful approaches to judging the opportunity for success as well as View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming loans than... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
My Pandemic Year
resilient and to lean on each other when times are tough. Video Embed As the MBA drew to a close, we came together as a section for the final time in April during Bridges. I cannot express the feeling of seeing many of the familiar faces... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
Photo courtesy of Ben de Menil In a palm tree–lined school courtyard in the small town of Cabarete, on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, children are making music. Some play the bongos; some, guitars. Others sing or step and sway to the View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
financial service companies. Benro was very familiar with European customers in the financial services sector but had no experience with other industries. "Working with Benro might be cheaper than doing this all on our own, at least... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
of the same shared assumptions about where the company will be in six months or a year. How can students best familiarize themselves with different career areas and job functions within renewables and clean energy? There are several... View Details