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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
venture funds with an external focus. These did not prove particularly successful, largely owing to disputes within the firm about appropriate investments. The task force, in member (and future XTV president) Robert Adams's words, rapidly... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
By the end of his early career, Williams had won additional supporters within the company, including Barrett's boss and several white peers who, when they were promoted to management before Williams, vouched for him with their colleagues and View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
so, whether she could attract the means to expand to Atlanta and Newark, where airport lease negotiations were again proceeding. Whatever external resources Rhyne would need to sustain her vision, her 18 months of mostly lonely,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
caused change to come through external regulation or pressure from newer, nimbler competitors. Until now, American higher education has largely regulated itself, to great effect. U.S. universities are among the most lightly regulated by... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
developing countries. After receiving generous amounts of aid in the early years of its development, the country weaned itself off these external flows as quickly as possible. They now maintain a comfortable cushion of foreign reserves to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
said yes. Once Rovell recruited a celebrity, that person often would cheerfully give him another star's direct line. Rovell quickly built an impressive Rolodex. You can succeed without explicitly swapping favors. Tapes of the show... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
the history of Big Spaceship since its founding in 2000. Then the case shifts to a discussion of external dynamics: the firm's value proposition, which focused on providing start-to-finish, strategy-driven digital marketing solutions; its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
how is internal adaptation in employment practices linked to external shifts in gendered beliefs and practices? The authors began by comparing thousands of pages of the firm's internal documents, such as surveys and interviews, as well as... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
forthcoming Abstract With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for qualified candidates. Sure, externally recruited CEOs bring fresh perspectives and connections. But they lack the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
"shaped" by many things—colleagues and friends, homes, climate, culture, and even our machines and gadgets—as well as our jobs. As he put it, "We are the product of a set of genes and their interaction with a myriad of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
currency bond markets develop, a "pseudo-flexible regime," whereby a country accumulates reserves in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
design ("what we do") and its identity ("who we are") is often seen as a key to strong performance. But maintaining a tight fit between design and identity is difficult when a profound external shock forces an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
They absolutely do,” Mensah said. “Courageous people do it all the time. They don’t need consultants to teach them. They don’t need training. You do it like you do everything else. You make it a priority. But they don’t want to do it. What you really want to do... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
Taxes: An Analysis Perspective Harvard Business School Note 107-047 Provides an overview of accounting for deferred taxes. The primary objective is to provide external users with a basic understanding of deferred taxes. A simple... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
company in Boston, I was recruited by another speech recognition firm in Silicon Valley. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to take the job given the noncompete agreement I had signed in Boston, but I was nonetheless able to make the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
co-founders' motivations and their strategy for disrupting an industry in the midst of dramatic structural change, and asks whether a16z's success to date has been due to its novel organization structure. a16z's 22 investment professionals are supported by 43 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
franca, or shared language, or in a local language-does not guarantee high performance. Recruiters may favor fluency over other capabilities. They may rely on external hires with language skills rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
on the Web is exactly the same as what you do off-line. Duplicate your traditional business assumptions on-line. (After all, the Internet is just a tool, isn't it?) Insist that an Internet venture meet every corporate standard: cost controls, quarterly earnings, View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne