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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare, as the composition and structure of teams often changes over time or between projects. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
share of end-users is only estimated at 10 percent, and end-users are less of a barrier to further market share than are Webmasters. Q: What are the chances for browsers like Firefox and Camino for the Mac... View Details
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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog
established offers, while encouraging them to uncover new opportunities for offerings and growth. c. Agility and empowerment . Next, you will learn how to develop decision-support dashboards and guidelines, as well as agile teams, to enable employees to View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
integrating operations to avoid corruption. The difference, the authors believe, lies in the choice between “push” and “pull” investment. MNCs seek growth by pushing current products onto emerging middle-class consumers. They retain some large portion of their existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
review sites for family doctors, pediatricians, heart surgeons, psychiatrists and others involved in health care delivery? There are seven key barriers. Some can be overcome by a cleverly designed website, others are more structural and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
2013. Studies documented increases in the gap (or in a few studies, the opposite view) between rich and poor. Headlines, at least in the United States, typically focused on the share of wealth and income accumulated by the top .1 percent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
least. (He is documenting his findings in a book, due to come out in 2013.) In a recent seminar at HBS, Piskorksi shared some findings on the online dating industry, where the research opportunities are nearly endless for a scholar of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
humor Professor Sahlman and sign up for his adventurous new course. Wouldn’t they? Sahlman believed he had a conceptual structure for the course that might protect him from the dreaded Onion Outcome. “My goal from the beginning,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
insufficient institutional checks and balances. At Enron at the end of 1999, the options that were vested were worth $2.4 billion. That is too much temptation to put in front of people—temptation to sell out secretly, "cooking the books" as necessary to hold... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
population buys online and as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a lot of benefits,” Dzodan shared about his business thesis. “The model we built for Facily is that we let people get together so they can place bulk orders... View Details
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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
twice—ask what you can do better and focus on continuous improvement. Finally, at the November HBS Women’s Leadership Summit , alumni heard a diverse group of women directors reflect on their board service and share advice from the top on... View Details
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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment
make next year. Go-to-Market Strategy The company shared that green hydrogen demand is expected to grow 30-fold by 2030. However, this market growth is only achievable if demand creation is successful. In that sense, the first hurdle they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Project) New research in the social sciences has yielded insights with important implications for the government’s role in the economy. The financial crisis has made the need to share these ideas with policymakers more urgent. To meet... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
prerequisite for trust. So why haven’t we seen more of it on an organized basis? Is it simply lack of time? Does it require a support structure that may be lacking in many organizations, something that can’t be created overnight? Or are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
donations. Amid exams and interviews, it gradually became clear in my heart that this was the one – I was going to New Orleans! I was offered the role of a Business Development Intern, but I quickly learned that like many early-stage startups, a perfectly delineated... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
create social distance, or a lack of emotional connection, that leads to misunderstandings and mistrust. To help global team leaders manage effectively, the author shares her SPLIT framework for mitigating social distance. It has five... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
to the researchers, successful digital economists share three broad skill sets: the ability to assess and interpret empirical relationships and work with data; the ability to understand and design markets and incentives, taking into... View Details