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- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
firm, therefore, lacks legitimacy and may be looked upon with suspicion by stakeholders. In order to gain legitimacy, a new firm is required to look like existing organizations, which possess legitimacy because of their familiarity to... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
e-books through its own iBooks app, so why would [Apple] ever say yes?" Such questions intrigued Zhu, whose research covers competitive strategy and innovation in high-tech industries. Along with Ron Adner of Dartmouth and Jianqing Chen of The University of Texas at... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
company to a larger one. In contrast, startups funded by a VC syndicate with less familiar co-investors are most likely to exit through a potentially splashy IPO that could let founders retain more control, says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
quantitative strategy, digging into numbers many ignore; others look deeply into industries or countries they are familiar with that many analysts don't understand. Successful investors learn how to put their unique knowledge to work... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
example, debt seems to be on the mind of a lot of people. That's ironic at a time when, as one CEO recently told me, "There is a sale on money." (One company with which I am familiar acted on that belief recently by borrowing a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
recording studio for the band; a backup device for your photos; a TiVo-like recorder and digital entertainment hub for the living room. Despite the buzz, Apple faced a familiar marketing challenge. Most people use Windows-based PCs, and... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
feel overwhelming. How will we integrate interns into the team? What project would drive the most value for our company and help the intern learn? Where do we start with this process? If these questions sound familiar to you and your... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 18 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
haven’t used videoconferencing or chat previously, familiarize yourself and set up a test. This is particularly relevant for videoconferencing tools so that you can see how your surroundings appear on camera and understand the various... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
expectations are impossible to meet, either approach sets up the firm and its managers for failure, and in the process, value is destroyed. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1583563 Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
concept. Built with authentic interiors and fixtures imported from Japan, the restaurants featured a working chef at every table, flamboyantly preparing and grilling familiar American foods such as shrimp, beef, and chicken ("No... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
soon developed a chain of restaurants based on a novel concept. Built with authentic interiors and fixtures imported from Japan, the restaurants featured a working chef at every table, flamboyantly preparing and grilling familiar American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
provides, it forces senior executives to become more familiar with how younger, even entry-level, people think, how they work, and how and what they are consuming. To make it work, senior executives have to make themselves vulnerable to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
outlook; a willingness and ability to partner; and familiarity with various types of businesses, particularly in the service sector. Too often, they have reflected what GE (and other organizations) needed in the past, not the future. If... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs
people, few of us put as much effort in onboarding those new hires.” As today's workforces become increasingly varied in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, new dimensions — and sometimes new challenges — are naturally introduced: evolving what is View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
didn’t know. “I realized I wanted to learn more about business strategies and the management side of things and less on the tech side, even though I really loved it,” he says. “They say HBS is transformational, and for me it really was,” he adds. “For one thing, I... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- Web
Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library
assignments. The first, an unskilled position such as a production line worker, sales clerk, or office clerk, familiarized students with supervision issues and customer-employee relations. "Our students find that they are better equipped... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
If the category of offerings known as “immersive experiences” were a soup, it would probably have to be a gumbo—a saucy and colorful assemblage of potentially disparate things. And while it’s rooted in familiar traditions, it’s also open... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
about. We talk about so many different topics at HBS, but this was the first time solving food insecurity was at the heart of a discussion. “There’s also something unique about having a case discussion surrounding a company you’re View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
be familiar with specific opportunities) manages the context—organization, the way managerial performance is measured and rewarded, etc.—that shapes definition of opportunities and the selection of those to be supported. In this view,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
to care in the use of the Internet, Gerald Nanninga pointed out that the best defense might well be a carefully-crafted strategy that competitors can't replicate even if they are familiar with it . Another creative proposal, leaking... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett