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- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
theory of the firm owe to Chandler, but there are other important examples. For example, during the 1950s Harvard's Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, organized by HBS business historian Arthur Cole, laid the groundwork for the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
economic and organizational sociology relevant to entrepreneurship, and identify significant gaps in that literature. Strategic Networks and Entrepreneurial Ventures Authors:Toby E. Stuart and Olav Sorenson... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
multinational enterprises around the world after the industrial revolution, an increasing wealth gap or "great divergence" between the West and the rest of the world, continued to widen. Why weren't developing countries more... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
within pre-existing cognitive categories and therefore do not benefit from a pre-existing understanding or identity of an industry. Given the importance of identity, it is critical that we understand how the identity of a new industry is generated. I attempt to address... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to Italy, Brazil, and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e., government funded but with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
a path to the future.” Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, has spent several years studying the intersection between entrepreneurial finance and environmental concerns. He... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
what are the key drivers of technology; and what are the macroeconomic consequences of technology. We prioritize in our discussion unified approaches to these three questions that are based on direct measures of technology. 2006 pub Dysfunction in the Boardroom:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
forthcoming Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges By: Kaplan, Steven N., and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper describes the available data and research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure. Specifically, we show that failure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
out, we see sparks of it here and there, more often in entrepreneurial situations. Hamel: I think we see it in two kinds of places: in isolated pockets within large corporations (GE Capital, for example), and in relatively young companies... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
suburbs, surface parking demands large gaps between buildings, perpetuating urban sprawl and making walking infeasible. Meanwhile, road maintenance saps budgets at every level of government. Automobile owners face high costs, too,... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
relationship between green business and governments. The struggles of entrepreneurial pioneers have rarely proved profitable, as they were forced to compete with conventional businesses that ignored negative environmental externalities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
theoretically from the WMS and other recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation. While arguments exist for and against policy support of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
labs and venture capital-backed firms, you see that there are both very real strengths and some serious limitations," Lerner says. "Much of the motivation for writing this book was to bridge the gap between the two models."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
idea for using Winfrey as the basis for one of HBS' hallmark case studies began simply enough. In the spring of 2002 when Koehn was teaching the first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, student Mia Mends approached Koehn... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding