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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
Scorecard, Rockwater managers took the somewhat unusual step of actually going out to talk to its existing and potential customers, the large integrated oil and gas companies. Rockwater learned that most of its customers did choose the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
entrepreneurs knew something, as much as anyone knew, about the Internet, for example. The coaches, while some of them are extremely sophisticated technically, had more knowledge on how you grow a business. So, there was potential for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
industry, but in every industry and in our society.”—Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), co-founder and managing partner, StarVest Partners Other studies—as well as anecdotal evidence from VCs—show that women are more likely to underestimate themselves and the financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
cycles could leave on rural and postindustrial America. And having taught special education at a high school on New Mexico’s Navajo Nation reservation as part of Teach For America after finishing his undergraduate degree, he understood how widely distributed talent and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Flashpoint serves as the scout. Its analysts speak a dozen different languages and gain access to discrete hacker forums, collect information on potential threats being discussed by credit card thieves and terrorists alike, and then... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
such initiatives, say some experts, can be a happier, more productive cadre of employees-and, with that, a healthier bottom line. But beyond the potential for profit, the longer-lasting outcome of the move to find deeper meaning in the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
experiences they hope to gain in a new job, what tradeoffs they’ll gladly make in return, and how to learn, before switching, if a new job will deliver. The result encourages job seekers to look beyond a title or company for a more holistic view and ask not what you... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
fintechs will take you over." The bankers complained about the difficulty of gaining customers in rural markets with high rates of illiteracy. "I told them those potential customers knew how to use a smartphone better than we do," Shousha... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
to measure. How should we measure ours? This book of advice on life is dedicated to the younger generations, which have so many capabilities and the potential to solve the many problems that we face today. Final Delivery and Eight Others... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
about the history of innovation in America. But sitting around a makeshift bar with some of the other executives who had just laid out rosy scenarios and hockey-stick returns to potential investors, the truth came out. One of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
potential employees and investors as well as to customers." Your Inner Entrepreneur But if entrepreneurship is, as Professor Howard Stevenson defines it, truly "a way of managing" rather than a specific set of activities or personality... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
potential design parameters that can explain observable variation in the "ERM mix" adopted by organizations. We also add a new contingent variable: the type of risk that a specific ERM practice addresses. We outline a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
KindredHarvard Business School Case 513-052 Patrick Coveney, CEO of Greencore, one of the top producers of private label prepared foods sold through UK grocery retailers, was assessing Greencore's growth options. Growth potential was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist, passed away in 2008. He left behind an estate worth U.S. $5.5 billion but did not leave a will. The case discusses the potential motivation for Wang and uses it to study succession planning for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
design and marketing strategies to those of Facebook. The market landscape of SNSs in China had changed drastically since Wang founded Xiaonei.com, with domestic and local competitors flocking into the market. With all his experience and knowledge in the SNS market,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
potential for embarrassment, and even religious conviction? Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:First Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
acquirers with a powerful new tool during the due-diligence process. By using existing industry templates, potential acquirers with access to the target's general ledger, and order, product and customer files, can quickly build an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
capital industry, but in every industry and in our society.”—Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), co-founder and managing partner, StarVest Partners Other studies—as well as anecdotal evidence from VCs—show that women are more likely to underestimate themselves and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
is the theme of every Disney movie I watched as a kid. Why is it so hard for us to forgo that chase? Your dreams are liars. Here’s the problem: Your genetic proclivities are not biasing you toward happiness. They’ve biased you toward sexual selection, toward impressing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
financial potential of their company during the pitch, offering more conservative, obtainable estimates, while men are more likely to offer ambitious and optimistic numbers. And Huang’s research on “gut feel” has found that when VCs rely... View Details