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  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

challenge on her hands. Perhaps you are attempting to manage your way through a similarly exigent scenario. Trying to accomplish everything that used to be done by two or three people, you may be feeling stressed, maybe more than a bit... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

miscalculated. By contrast, in this setting you have a constant struggle in real time between every nation in the world vying for influence within the Secretariat." To figure out who has been winning that competition, Werker and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National Engineering and Environment... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

them—potentially, at least—a strategic edge that private funds lack. These differences—good and bad—are illustrated by the case of Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). The case, write Gompers and Lerner, "highlights the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership

HBS professor Michael Tushman has been named the first incumbent of the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professorship of Business Administration. Tushman is internationally recognized for his work on the relations between technological... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)

When Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999) returned home to India after graduating from Wellesley College in 1988, her father suggested she try working at one of the family holding company’s three hotels. Two years later, when her father died... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Paul Niehaus, University of California San Diego, Department of Economics

  • 09 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of Anticorruption Efforts

Keywords: by Paul Healy & George Serafeim
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

customer needs both today and tomorrow, and the other that is focused on crazy innovation." Leaders who strike the balance well, note O'Reilly and Tushman, do so by mitigating the effects of separation with a structure that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman

    U.S. Innovators Dogged by Money-grubbing ‘Patent Trolls’

    The U.S. economy is driven by innovation, but unwelcome “patent trolls” are gunking up the system. Patent reform bills sit idle in Congress as the “trolls” set up companies for the sole purpose, critics say, of shaking down inventors while never creating... View Details
    • 22 Jul 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?

    Keywords: by Paul Healy and George Serafeim
    • March 2024
    • Case

    Biomanufacturing Decentralization by Stämm

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
    In Buenos Aires, Argentina, cousins Llamazares and D’Alvia founded Stämm, a startup based on the idea of decentralizing biomanufacturing processes and downsizing biotech facilities. After raising its seed and series A rounds, and while finalizing its series B round in... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Selection and Staffing; Technological Innovation; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires
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    • 01 Dec 2004
    • News

    A Life by Design

    As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
    • 26 Nov 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

    Keywords: by Juan Alcacer & Paul Ingram
    • 01 Sep 2011
    • News

    Now You Can Choose

    important topics like American competitiveness. As we begin a new fiscal year, I hope you’ll show your support for the work of the School by making a gift at http://give.hbs.edu or through the mail. Paul... View Details
    Keywords: Paul Finnegan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • 01 Sep 2006
    • News

    Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns

    period projected at five years or less. Any Harvard unit or department may apply for the interest-free loans, which are repaid out of the savings generated by reductions in energy consumption, utility usage, and waste removal. HBS was one... View Details
    Keywords: Paul Massari; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • Fall 2013
    • Article

    Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?

    By: David Drake and Stefan Spinler
    Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Sustainability; Environment; Paul Kleindorfer; Management; Environmental Sustainability
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    • Book Review

    Review of The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal: The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism, by Paul D. Moreno

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
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    • 01 Oct 1998
    • News

    Supplying Demand

    of Staples, Inc., will be the first to tell you, thank goodness he got canned. On July 4, 1985, Stemberg - who had been let go by First National Supermarkets earlier that year as the firm prepared to sell his division - ran out of... View Details
    Keywords: Paul Michelman