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  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

and vertical mergers. Our model highlights a collective action problem: what is good for an individual firm is often not good for the cluster. We speculate that this conflict may be a source of strategic tension in platform firms.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

http://hbr.org/product/Google-Inc--in-2014/an/915004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-520 Investing in Online Marketplaces Simon Rothman had recently been promoted from executive-in-residence to partner at esteemed venture capital firm Greylock Partners and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2022
  • Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

the environment, she jumped at the opportunity to join them—even though she did not know what to expect. Joining has made a significant difference in Sandra’s life. Not only have the other worker-owners been a source of information,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Netscape's initial financiers, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. While Brooks struggled to interest EG&G in backing his concept (EG&G considered Brooks's idea outside its core business), Kleiner Perkins moved decisively to View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

collateral and liquidate it at the first sign of trouble. Thus traditional banks have a stable source of funding, while shadow banks are subject to runs and fire-sale losses. These different funding models... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

services. In health care, nursing services, community social services, mental health services, and home health-care services are on the rise. One executive recently told me that his firm's business training services were up over 400 percent since fall 2008. Government... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 31 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

Versus Deterministic Explanations of Crowdsourcing Success" to "Patients and Caregivers as Sources of Innovative Ideas and Solutions." In addition to open innovation, a conference track was devoted to scholarship around... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

customer acquisition strategy might be sound given the circumstances of the moment, said Filipowski. "I believe in assessing the current environment and taking advantage of it." In a discussion on the pluses and minuses of receiving venture capital, Hafner... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

get businesses to understand the kind of corrosive effects that this is having on our entire economy" While competition between the two parties looks fiercer than ever, in reality, the study suggests, both Democrats and Republicans benefit from having the other as... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

technical, financial, and administrative resources to these innovative clinicians and facilitates the development of the ideas so they eventually become medical practice. While successful on many dimensions, Parrish is faced with the dilemma of stable, long-term View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

seen evidence that renewable energy sources will get cheap enough, fast enough to slow global carbon emissions, particularly those from coal-fired power plants in China and India. "The Chinese and Indians are going to clean up their local... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

commercialization and adoption. Emerging opportunities must be nurtured, and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

diversification to long-term investors do not recede when the source of increased global return correlations is correlated discount rates. Empirically, we document a secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock returns... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

interactive online demonstration enables first-hand exploration of the parameter space (www.mpmlab.org/groups), and available source code (supplementary materials) provides a guide to implementing psychological agent-based models.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

million from advertising. The new CEO had to decide which of these three revenue sources he should focus on in the future and how this choice would influence the target customers, the service offerings, and the required capabilities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

undertaking traditional value creation activities—from sourcing to engaging the poor in production to distribution and sales—in low-income markets. To the degree that these ventures empower the poor—either by improving their quality of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that explained how these View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • Profile

Lara Hodgson

otherwise. When you start to expand and develop the board, how does it change the pattern of decision-making? The truth is, if you can fund your own growth, you’re golden. As the business grows, it should use a variety of sources. The key... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

of several international investors has put the group's ability to fund the deal in question. With time running out, Enelamah and the ACA investment committee must decide whether the Union Bank acquisition is still a wise investment, or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne