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- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
makers are being put to the test once again. Flooding money markets on Sunday (3/13) with ¥15 trillion (about $183 billion) was a sensible first step by the Bank of Japan, but the real challenge lies ahead.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of civilization. View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
rest of us—keep up with technology’s relentless march? Have we gone as far as the eye can see? Told in five parts, Becoming, Transforming, Observing, Showing, and Curating, this book shows how each revolution in seeing has determined who we have become—and how we might... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W. Thompson (MBA '81), Bruce W. Ferguson... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
proliferation of accelerators, and continuation of VC investments have made it increasingly possible to start a business, and in some sectors entrepreneurs were able to attract funds without a real monetization strategy. I agree with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Commencement 2017 Address | About
REACH, and RESPECT. Your responsibilities as people trained to lead businesses are more important today than ever. You are graduating into a world in which trust and faith in business has declined significantly. In the U.S., unemployment may be at record lows, and the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
the most fertile area for business research in the next decade. By more deeply understanding human cognition, emotion, motivation, and behavior, managers could tailor products and services to unmet and previously unrecognized needs with exquisite accuracy. They could... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
country’s leafy greens are produced in Arizona or California, according to the states' Leafy Green Marketing Agreement, and transportation to New England can take weeks; FreshBox being able to offer Massachusetts consumers a locally grown... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While his work—first as an international View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
markets froze. To make matters worse, PIC cancelled the joint venture with Dow in December 2008. As a result, Dow was hurt on three fronts: first, it lost an important funding source for the proposed... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
How can nonprofit leaders address such conflicting demands? Harvard Business School Working Knowledge recently spoke with two leaders in the field of nonprofit performance management. Mario Morino is cofounder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners, which... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
higher subsequent patenting at the individual level. I also find mobility immediately prior to meetings at which R&D funds are most likely to be disbursed to be related to higher subsequent patenting. This study sheds new light on how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
offers four humanitarian Rainbows of Hope, personal and ambitious projects that have yet to reach fruition: the Hope Scholarship, which provides funds to help eligible high school graduates attend college; Hope for Starving Children, to... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
song effectively maximizes profits? Could Apple charge less and capture more market share, or price higher and create more net profit? A: Apple makes little money from the sale of songs. It is estimated that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
woman who is a fellow mutual fund board member. It was the first time we'd spoken about gender, although we've worked together closely for over five years. That's not to say that all the challenges have gone... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
off?" Comparing notes across sectors we identified two factors that were not a surprise to any of us—accelerating market demand and well managed federal support for fundamental research. But the third factor—the thing that appears to have... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have invested in the past five years have grown more quickly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace