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19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

relative importance of public agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and different types of private firms in developing precision medicines. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53560... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

are subject to non-compete agreements. Because laws regarding NCCs represent a patchwork among states, a question continually arises about their enforceability across state lines. One solution advanced by unions and public advocacy groups... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

both raise and burn cash. Its only asset was Mr. Ma, its charismatic and dynamic founder. After we wrote our first case study about the company in 2000, we were afraid it would go bankrupt before we could teach the case for the first... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

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Sebastian Velasco

involved college. "I told my middle-school principal my dream was to go to Harvard. He laughed," Sebastian says. "He said that coming from such a small city in Mexico, it would be impossible. While I was disappointed, it... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

sophisticated understanding of that market, said Wiersma. One reason the TV recorder company TiVo ran into difficulty, she said, was the company didn't understand that consumers don't want to have to get another box for their television. "You can View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

simple: Why? Why do you do this? Why do you do things in this way? Just keep asking “why?”—every subsequent “why?” will go deeper. Asking “why?” five times is a strategy pioneered by Toyota to track down the root cause of mistakes.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded equity or... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

pieces you want to protect-the component on which you'll build the value-capturing part of your business-and the knowledge that you're going to put into the public domain. Let your users View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

economics is about how people understand information.” As an undergraduate at William & Mary, he interned at Google, where he gained an insider’s perspective on a new technology, Google Glass. Bracaglia wrote SQL for the Glass team, whose challenging View Details

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

spent with talented and interesting classmates and professors. “We all became really close,” she said, “and it was nice to know that there was a group of people who shared an interest in charting a path forward that would allow us to go... View Details

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

experiences and reactions in the context of their current workplaces. In the results below, we focus on women who are working full time. About half of alumnae had recently experienced some kind of harassment, ranging from sexually suggestive comments to pressure to... View Details

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

colleagues used a program that identified gender based on names of VCs and entrepreneurs; for those the program couldn’t determine, they looked up pictures and stories. “If I am in a firm with five white guys who all went to Harvard, it’s likely we are View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

to his ideas. He responded to every comment I made with helpful information about where I could go to find comparable developments, and gave me advice about how to rethink the project. He asked tons of questions as he remained immensely... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

assistance of Richard Kriebel, Land presented the science behind his invention in a series of engaging public forums. In 1936, the young entrepreneur introduced his synthetic light polarizing discs at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New... View Details

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

No one can be an effective leader in a crisis by attempting to go it alone. Leaders must be the first to recognize this reality and plan accordingly." The seven leadership lessons include: Face reality, starting with yourself. Don't... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Emerging Markets

Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. There, I collaborated with both private and public sector clients across various industries in Africa, focusing on speeding up private sector growth and thereby contributing to the wider... View Details

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

discuss her research and the enduring power of Adam Smith's ideas. Ann Cullen: How did you and your coauthors come to be interested in this lesser known publication of Adam Smith? Nava Ashraf: Several years ago while taking a graduate... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

this tool to optimize impact and financial performance going forward. This case was designed to be taught alongside Root Capital’s Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation exercise. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

way and that these could possibly affect OPET’s loyalty program, in which the company had invested heavily. How should Guler go about revising OPET’s marketing strategy so as to keep up with and possibly foresee further regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

as quite possibly record numbers of businesses (and individuals) default on their debt, restructure, or go bankrupt. The number of US business bankruptcy filings in the first quarter of this year is already up substantially over prior... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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