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    Judo Strategy: Turning Your Competitors’ Strength to Your Advantage

    Why do some companies succeed in defeating stronger rivals, while others fail? This is a question that, sooner or later, all ambitious competitors must face. Whether you’re a tiny start-up taking on industry giants or a giant moving into markets dominated by... View Details

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    Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

    practitioners worldwide. Because it is such a complex phenomenon, entrepreneurship must be studied through multiple lenses. We use three. The process of entrepreneurship - We seek to understand the processes of entrepreneurial activity in View Details
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    Asia Pacific - Global

    in the Asia-Pacific region for HBS in addition to writing over 30 cases about companies in China. From November 2018 to March 2020, she worked at TencentX University and led the development and execution of executive education programs for View Details
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    Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

    By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce
    We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political... View Details
    Keywords: Spoken Communication; Prejudice and Bias; Competency and Skills; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Decisions
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    • September 2013
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
    After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Startup; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leadership Skills; Nutrition Database; Nutritionist In Your Pocket; Nutritional Educational Platform; Shazam Of Food; Weight Loss; Iphone; Android; Applications; App Development; Nutrition Labeling; Nutritional Information; Obesity; Epidemic; Applications and Software; Nutrition; Business Startups; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Boston; Massachusetts
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    Overview

    Professor Huang examines the micro-foundations of entrepreneurship: the individual-level decision-making processes that influence entrepreneurs’ ability to acquire resources that they need, yet lack, especially financial capital. Deploying a variety of methods from... View Details
    • 07 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

    Most companies fail. It's an unsettling fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but old news to start-up veterans. But here's the good news: Experienced entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually fails can actually help a... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 23 Nov 2021
    • Book

    What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

    pandemic, for which no plan could be made. Agility, not long-range planning, is the answer to hard-to-predict events. Finally, effective culture is especially important for organizations in the start-up phase of their development in which... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
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    FAQ - MBA

    management and financial challenges faced by corporations, start-ups and nonprofits. Business executives find that an understanding of the law enhances their ability to evaluate risk, make strategic decisions, and conduct day-to-day... View Details

      platform strategy: getting started; confronting powerful intermediaries

      Digital platforms are attractive businesses because they create significant value and network effects protect competitive advantage. But they face considerable start-up challenges. Indeed, every platform is empty at the outset. And most platforms require multiple types... View Details
      • 15 Apr 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar
      • 22 Apr 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Dr. Milt McColl, MD, Gauss Surgical, CEO

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      2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

      the changes have been accelerated by technology, the pandemic, rising interest rates, and inflation. But the managerial and resource-allocation implications of these developments for start-ups and established companies are often... View Details
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      Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      across divisions (e.g., Mickey’s birthday) – Disney University provides consistent training for employees across the company – Credit card and catalog designed to capture customer data across divisions – Senior personnel transferred across divisions Recent acquisitions... View Details
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      Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

      and start-up founders. We focus our research on the identification and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities; domestic and international funding of entrepreneurial endeavors; innovation, particularly technological innovation in... View Details
      • 2003
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      When You Say Yes But Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies

      By: Leslie Perlow
      “Saying yes when you really mean no” is a problem that haunts organizations from start-ups to multi-nationals. It exists across industries, levels, and functions. And it’s exacerbated by a down economy, when the fear of losing one’s job is on everybody’s mind and the... View Details
      Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Relationships; Business Ventures
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      Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights

      By: James J. Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
      Patents vary substantially in the degree of protection provided against unauthorized imitation. In this chapter we explore a range of work addressing the economic and policy implications of "weak" patents—patents that have a significant probability of being overturned... View Details
      Keywords: Patents; Motivation and Incentives; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Rights; Monopoly; Business Startups
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      Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (A)

      Introduces a "new-economy" company, Madison Avenue, facing challenges of mega-success. In the two years since its founding, the company's revenues have grown from zero to nearly $30 million, head count has swollen from the start-up handful to more than 200, and the... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
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      Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

      Rock@hbs.edu at least two weeks in advance of the deadline. Club List Entrepreneurship Club VC Club Insights Get insights and news on a range of start-up topics. Read more Career & Professional Development For students interested in... View Details
      • 30 Nov 2021
      • In Practice

      What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

      The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
      Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman