Not For Profit - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

laws are not a cure-all. And the scope of industries considering adopted patent pools has also grown. While the patent pools have been well established in basic manufacturing and electronic industries for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

04 May 2013
News

James Dinan & Elizabeth Miller, both MBA 1985

For Jamie Dinan and Elizabeth Miller, endowing the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professorship of Business Management as a 25th Reunion gift was one more significant step along a mutual journey. Dinan, the founder, chairman, and... View Details

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

traditional Afghani designs and using only locally grown cotton. Sherjan wants to grow Boumi so that it can be a substantial, if not major, funding source for Aid Afghanistan View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

Facebook and Google, for example, own user data and keep 100 percent of profits with advertisers. In Web3, companies share revenue with users. “This is a new way to organize economic activity and incentivize... View Details

Keywords: April White

Portrait Project

Sneha Biswas

once told me that I must study well because men want educated wives. So, I did. But somewhere along the journey, my goal shifted. I wasn’t doing it for a husband, but for the respect that women, like my... View Details

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

spend years burning through venture capital while they figured out their strategy. These are the days of the lean startup. "Most startups fail not because they can't build the product they set out to build, but because they build the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

working for Morgan Stanley and leading the Japan office of Clay Finlay, a New York–based asset management company. Matsui was the vice chair for Goldman Sachs Japan and the chief Japan equity strategist. On... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Honoring a legacy

her parents in 1964. “It’s not about taking over the company business; it’s really about honoring the legacy of my parents. It’s about the spirit of my parents, their value system, and their beliefs. When I joined my parents, my father in... View Details

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

prosperity for everyone." David Wittenberg added, "Experience shows that income inequality need not lead to disaster, provided that there are fair means for the poor... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting

recruiting platform 12twenty" to do so. Make the job title count Be specific and use searchable keywords that HBS students will likely use when looking for roles. Our MBAs are typically looking for... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and cosmetics companies with $1.7 billion in annual sales, Harf is a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Profile

Rachel H Chung

up in a track suit and bringing my dad’s motorcycle helmet to school for Halloween. Don’t worry though, I’m a safe and tame driver on the roads of Cambridge today. What is your favorite childhood memory? When I was seven years old, my mom... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

risk considered plausible. It assigned a probability of 11 percent to such a pandemic (against, for instance, a 19 percent assigned to global energy shortage or a 17 percent assigned to shortage of labor), making it View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

Keywords: by Asli M. Coplan & Geoffrey Jones

19 Jun 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts

Keywords: by Ethan R. Mollick & Ramana Nanda

20 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker

Research Summary

Overview

Phil's work aims to identify the drivers of performance for healthcare organizations and providers, and the mechanisms by which this performance can change over time. In complex healthcare settings, the optimal choice of treatment can be highly ambiguous. As a... View Details

Keywords: Primary Care; Medical Decision-making; Learning By Doing; Healthcare Organizations; Healthcare Operations; Health Economics

Research Summary

Creating Trust in International Joint Ventures in Asia: An Empirical Comparative Study

In the wake of the currently ongoing financial crisis in Asia, we anticipate a rapid increase of international joint ventures between Asian and Western firms. However, so far, the sources of success in international joint ventures have not been well understood. Why do... View Details

2020
Chapter

Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

By: John D. Macomber

As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Housing; Mortgages; Geographic Location; Real Estate Industry

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2004
Book

Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

By: Amar Bhidé

Academics and practitioners readily admit the importance of entrepreneurs for the wealth of nations. However, the relationship between the economic and social environment, entrepreneurship and value creation is not yet well understood. Moreover, at the micro-level, the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance