Multiple Audience Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2013
News

Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

city has a lot of cultural assets, absolutely. But it's much more than the festivals and parades," he says. "I've been visiting the city for 27 years, and it's changed. Today the city is thriving from a business perspective, from an early-stage business-development... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

sociology, and history who want to know about the latest research in business history, as well as to a wider audience beyond academia, including practitioners, who are interested in learning from the past of business. Handbooks such as... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

goals of profit and nonprofit mission do sometimes collide. When the goals complement each other, however, they bring real, unexpected, and refreshing advantages. For example, profits can bring in more than money. As non-profit director Alfred Wise wondered aloud to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

align? For example, when the VC hedges its bet by investing in multiple startups that may be competitors? A startup whose VC also invests in competitors may produce fewer new products for market, according to recent research. Source:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

but their passive investment nature offers few checks on those companies’ executives. Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds As investors increasingly demand investment opportunities that match their social beliefs,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

01 Jun 2022
News

Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

degree in aerospace engineering and several years at a real estate development and investment firm. But they collaborated on multiple ventures over the last 17 years. The most recent is NowAccount, a fintech startup that helps small... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

20 May 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

multiple sectors were managing through crisis, while building his own business acumen. Post HBS, Surette rejoined Parthenon for four years focusing on education and consumer goods consulting. Then when it came time to make another move,... View Details

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

provides the opportunity for a few faculty members to share recent work with an audience of doctoral students, staff members, and other professors. In a panel discussion, several professors shared the practical findings of recent field... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

Finally, we recommend that the external auditor problems can only be solved through a major change in the relation between auditors and the companies they audit. This may be achieved by making the audit committee responsible for hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

avoid even the most modest of practices that they considered inappropriate. Explores the practices and methods that Infosys adopted instead, considers their costs, benefits, and generalizability, and contextualizes the problem within... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By developing complimentary software that connected to email... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

of The Bridgespan Group, a not-for-profit strategic consulting firm dedicated to nonprofits. Bradach spoke to an audience at Harvard Business School on January 21, 2004 as part of the Social Enterprise Faculty Seminar Series. Today's... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

human capital from the country. “One problem we are facing is super practical and that is navigating the Visa issues to make the model sustainable,” Takatsuka said. “The second problem we want to solve for... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

pesticide exposure, diet, or perhaps complex interactions among all those factors and others. “With honey-bee health problems there are multiple possible causes,” says Crespin, who also works on... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

23 Aug 2011
News

New Kid in School

math, and coached the track team, which he founded, to multiple Division III New England prep school championships. Ellison, who spent five years in the Marine Corps — he finished first in his class at Officers Candidate School — before... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

Student-Faculty-Profile

Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton

their demanding schedules. However, I generally see Mike multiple times a week and have regular meetings about our research. It turns out the faculty are really passionate and excited about research, and count it as one of their most... View Details

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

the world into a multidimensional crisis. We are not only facing a health crisis, but economic and social crises, too, characterized by rising inequalities on top of an environmental crisis. A common root of these multiple crises can be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

sticking point currently for businesses is spanning the gap between the physical and the digital world, he continued. "Right now there are significant problems understanding how to take what we are getting at point of sale in the... View Details