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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
declared. He believed that by winning the support of umbrella organizations that represent many municipalities, such as the U.S. Conference of Mayors, govWorks could quickly go nationwide. But it didn't work out that way. Tuzman and his partner underestimated how... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
debt, asleep-at-the-wheel boards of directors, and multiple mega-bankruptcies. We have watched with disbelief the disintegration of a major accounting firm, the discrediting of an alarming number of CEOs, and the growth of a widespread... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- Profile
Casey Gerald
schools such as Stanford, Columbia, Babson and UCal Berkeley, traveling more than 40,000 miles into 28 cities and towns to work with 50 entrepreneurs across the heart of America. “We have three measures of success,” Gerald... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
many of these businesses is still challenged," says Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing. "From a profit perspective, from a growth perspective, and more importantly from a return on investment perspective." In addition to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products, alongside the values in which they were embedded. They lit up the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
these features may also facilitate discrimination based on sellers' race, gender, age, or other aspects of appearance. In this paper, we test for racial discrimination against landlords in the online rental marketplace Airbnb.com. Using a new data set combining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
of an Italian design based bicycle manufacturer evaluates if reducing costs by outsourcing would impact its brand. The company was founded in 2005 in Italy by three friends, and in its first five years it had enjoyed steady growth and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
different cities across China. As competition for investments becomes more intense, Jin and Li must decide the growth and strategic direction that SCGC should pursue. The case highlights the important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
significantly reduce their downside risks and quickly begin to benefit from the ecosystem. Ping An’s ecosystems. Ping An started as a thirteen-person small property and casualty insurance office in China’s southern city of Shenzhen in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Playbook to Fuel Business Growth By Satyam Kantamneni (GMP 14, 2013) Wiley In his book, UXReactor co-founder Satyam Kantamneni distills 25 years of industry experience into a pragmatic approach to help organizations advance in the highly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
company. It “benefited from the benign neglect” of other firms. Andy Grove emerging from the New York City subway (1958). A recent arrival to the United States from his native Hungary, he would be named Time magazine's Man of the Year... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
the 20th century or that it is not so poor now. The second explanation states that the country failed to generate growth supporting institutions despite its wealth, thus leading to a relative decline in its income level. The next... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—At the time of the American Revolution, China was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie John Abstract—Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for example, enjoying both rustic lake... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
summer internship opportunities to New York City and Chicago undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds. Lee said, “I hope that the HBS community and its resources will equip me with additional tools in pursuit of broadening... View Details
- Web
A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
to produce polarized materials, Land was counting on a new initiative to reenergize and propel the company’s growth in peacetime. 8 Land conceived of instant photography in 1943. While on vacation with his family in Santa Fe, New Mexico,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
have higher productivity than their counterparts from large cities. As a possible explanation of our results, we test for selection and find that employees hired from smaller towns outperform their large city counterparts in standardized... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
become the hubs of the network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Private Equity and Industry Performance Authors:Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract The growth of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details