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- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete, says Teixeira. After lobbying and... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
include a "powerful board" (Ravi Mistry), careful listening on the part of leadership (Dayvon McCarrell, C. J. Cullinane), transparency (Joanna), measurement of project failure rates (Steve Romero), surrounding oneself with... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
funding into water tech, most notably low rates.” She added, “The availability of money isn't the issue. It’s the lack of reasonable pricing for water that impedes progress. Keeping water rates low has been great for affordability, but it... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
considerable experience but in other industries. The increase in investment rates does not affect the success of these transactions adversely to a significant extent. These findings are consistent with the view that venture capitalists... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
real actions to boost earnings to meet different types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
countries between 1985 and 2000, we find that the growth effects of FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-072.pdf How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
where the business models, like the ideas behind them, are still expanding outward. Estimates by Grand View Research predict the industry will keep growing at a compound annual rate of 34 percent, at least through the next five years. The... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
high-value customers.” It would almost be as if a high-end retailer such as Louis Vuitton or Gucci told people to go their outlet store first, Ngwe says. Huge gain in sales In a series of experiments involving a real online fashion and... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
studio in history to break the $1 billion mark at the domestic box office for 11 years in a row. Zucker’s strategy, on the other hand, failed miserably. His network ended up in a sorry state as ratings took a huge dive and Zucker was... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
president Roger Cole (MBA 1985) and moderated by club member Karen Horgan (MBA 1999), whose company also focuses on behavioral economics in health care. “We worked with him to create a talk that included a real case that he teaches, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
geographic spread,” she says, “the virus has extended to affect a wider range of animals than we’ve ever seen before. It’s infecting cats, for example, and has even caused the death of tigers. It has a high fatality rate in humans; we... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
between the real and digital worlds prevents us from fully exploiting the volumes of information now available to us. Augmented reality (AR), a set of technologies that superimposes digital data and images on physical objects and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
includes projects that have received funding from the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator Fund. Needleman received funding from the accelerator last year, for a project that involves the success rate of assisted reproductive technologies... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
audience. Even so, she has no fear. “Let’s get real about hard,” she says. “Whenever I encounter something hard, I remind myself there is nothing that can be done to me that has not been done to my ancestors. I’ve only achieved what I’ve... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and investor patience. "Once a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
marketing-services firms, describes the $4 billion spent last year as "chicken feed." What he finds interesting about the Web is the impact it is having on the wider area of communication services. Sorrell, whose business leadership earned him knighthood last December,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young