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  • 16 May 2023
  • In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

the ecosystem, which means investments in R&D and new product development will be curtailed. The financial system is far stronger today than it was in the Great Financial Crisis, but the economy was already somewhat wobbly. On the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity across idiosyncratic product categories, resulting in a net economic crisis of a type that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today.... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
  • Web

Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Complements from Substitutes Featured Exercises Create a customer journey map to discover complementary products and services 5 hrs Module 3 Competing with Network Effects Explore the three types of network effects, their impact on WTP,... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

their own versions of it. Rethinking the discovery problem The rise of the internet democratized the publishing and distribution of information and entertainment. In the process, it created an enormous discovery problem. Those with an idea or View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

was strengthened through the deployment of products that were complementary to its own. This made it tough for competitors. They were not just going head-to-head with Microsoft's products—they were also competing against the repository of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

Tsao, both of whom held senior positions in the US Department of Justice’s criminal division and now are Harvard Law School lecturers. It explores the topics through cases such as Wells Fargo’s creation of thousands of fake accounts, and the bribes that Walmart and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 10 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

lowlights What are 1-2 highlights from your experience? This could be a memory of your first big product launch, closing a hard funding round or even just that night that all hell broke loose and you fixed a hairy bug at 2 a.m. What made... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • Web

Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • Web

Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Alternative Investments ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Alternative Investments $1,850 Next 5-week session starts August 13th Enroll Now Take... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

  Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

affects each of Porter's Five Forces as well as the resources and capabilities of the firm. The availability of patents may be key to deciding what barriers to entry exist. The enforceability of covenants not to compete and assignments of inventions may determine who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

nonstop flights—matters most when collaborators are in different time zones or overcoming cultural distance. “It seems that, if the two locations are in the same time zone and are culturally similar, then Zoom is good enough. It’s fine to meet colleagues on Zoom and... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation
  • March 2011 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

Office of Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences

By: Willy Shih, Sen Chai, Kamen Bliznashki and Courtney Hyland
Gordon Zong is trying to teach Chinese universities and research institutes how to do effective technology transfer and IP licensing, but he is trying to do it in an environment with weak property rights and an underdeveloped support infrastructure. As the managing... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Patents; Knowledge Management; Law Enforcement; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; China
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  • 17 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

should develop a national footprint—supported by a company-owned distribution system since third-party suppliers didn't exist—instead of growing in geographic chunks through franchising. Su sourced products from within China whenever... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

trend? Alan MacCormack: There are 3 main drivers. First, the complexity of products is increasing, in terms of the breadth and number of technologies they include. Cars send maintenance data wirelessly to dealerships; sneakers contain... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2010
  • Article

Sell-Side School Ties

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Andrea Frazzini
We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell-side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Knowledge Acquisition; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

Hollywood for women and actresses of color. Spencer, who is African American, let Chastain know about big pay differences between Black and white actresses. Chastain responded by publicly advocating for fair pay and by starting a View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds