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- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
More entrepreneurs are receiving initial funding from VCs thanks to technologies such as the cloud. Source: PeopleImages As cloud technologies allow startups to build companies faster and cheaper than ever before, venture capitalists are... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
state-owned firms. This article examines how the founder of the Koç Group, Vehbi Koç, formulated his business model and analyses how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. Although the case supports prevailing explanations of business groups related to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
business-government relationships very concrete and personal by examining business and government officials at a local level. Hartmut Berghoff accomplished just such a study of Hohner, the harmonica maker. I chose Thyssen & Co.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats they pose to selected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, of... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
when more than 50 people in 11 states were sickened by an initial E. coli outbreak. “Do those smaller local organic growers have the experience, resources, and commitment to test their products for various food safety risks?” The chain... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
helping the environment or encouraged to drill for carbon-based fuels? How do we fund government programs such as health care and entitlements? How big should government be? "...it would be constructive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and available capacity. It then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
time, those patriarchal systems tend to diminish initiative and entrepreneurship, discouraging individuals to take different stands, go out and do different businesses or take different paths. It is a curious feature of human psychology... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boomor 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... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
experiments replicated and extended this basic effect, providing evidence of when and why it occurs. Taken together, these studies imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm’s bottom line. Government Technology... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- July 2009
- Teaching Note
Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target (TN)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Teaching Note for [709002]. View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
cost, but is also a function of the competitiveness of the upstream economy. Moreover, the presence of a gray market competitor may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
world's poor live in countries where governments lack either the will or the ability to raise living standards on their own. Financial assistance to such governments, therefore, has often not helped their neediest citizens. In fact, in... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
Greening Walmart: Progress and Controversy In 2005, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, launched a sustainability initiative aimed at reducing waste and making the company more environmentally and socially conscious. By 2015, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
Government archives are often poorly organized or inaccessible. There's really no way to know the history." An initial pilot effort grew out of interviews in 2008 with von Appen and nine other Chilean... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
program to reduce health care costs by focusing on providing better care to that 5 percent—often those patients who rack up exorbitant costs with repeat emergency room visits. In a New Yorker article, Gawande writes that for an initial... View Details