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- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-089 Instacart and the New Wave of Grocery Startups Instacart is testing an Uber-style solution to the challenge of building a home-delivered grocery... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
debut at a prominent industry conference, coverage on the front page of the New York Times' Business section, and the raising of a large round of financing from a top-tier venture capital firm. His attempts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
Working PapersTo Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We examine the profitability and implications of online discount vouchers, a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
for new products, services, and entire businesses. It may look like innovators are born, not made. But according to Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen anyone can become more innovative. How? Master the discovery skills that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
factors in explaining the increased presence of NGOs in the last few decades: a trend towards more outsourcing of government services; new ventures by would-be not-for-profit "entrepreneurs"; and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406118 Buddy March Harvard Business School Case 407-128 Entrepreneurial general manager (GM) ignores specific directives from his boss (GVP) to discontinue a new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must develop a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
with (i) a new venture's affiliations with venture capitalists (VCs) that have prominent positions in syndicate networks and (ii) a new venture's prominent position in alliance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
that can be contested in court to new applications involving herbals and synthetics, which are less contestable. Further, we study the ethnic origins of the inventors of herbal patents filed on the USPTO.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
When Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever prepared to write The Capitalist's Dilemma for the June issue of Harvard Business Review, they took an approach rarely tried on the same scale: They outsourced it with 150 Harvard Business School View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
generation ago. If you are a global entrepreneur, says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, "you have to think much earlier and much faster." The new MBA second-year course Launching Global View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
convinced Lakhani to drop his engineering aspirations and become a scholar of innovation. Lakhani has devoted much of his research at HBS exploring how communities and contests can be designed to achieve innovative outcomes. Last year, he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
meeting room for that purpose at Flatiron Partners in New York. Companies in which Flatiron had invested scheduled the room, one after another, for their board meetings. In our case, we had moved our meeting to View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-035.pdf PublicationsEntrepreneurial Ventures and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
In separate sessions at the 2001 Global Alumni Conference, HBS professors McFarlan (HBS MBA '61 and DBA '65) and Dorothy A. Leonard dissected the dot.com disaster and found much worth salvaging. In fact, they insisted, the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
Four European entrepreneurs joined HBS Professors Howard Stevenson and Walter Kuemmerle to explore these questions in the Global Alumni Conference breakout session "Entrepreneurship in Europe." Stevenson and Kuemmerle set the... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
(HBS Professor Clayton M. Christensen leveraged the same platform for a new approach to research by reaching out to over 5,000 alumni of his Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course. As a... View Details