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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
start-up that provides clean drinking water to more than 64,000 rural villagers in India. The company uses a franchise model in which local entrepreneurs filter and sell water to members of their community. "In India, 87 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
competitiveness in the face of the territorial extent of the United States and its ability to integrate a dynamic industrial sector with ample raw material supplies, agriculture commodities, markets, and labor into one national economy.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
"With the virtual mobility of global labor insured, only those companies and nations will grow ... that make the best use of entrepreneurial qualities...." How governments should spend money in support of innovation clearly... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
invests significant resources in software such as Java and Linux that IBM does not own in order to integrate many companies' products and services for IBM's customers. Intel invests significant resources in university research (which it does not own) and in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is compelling: a well-run fund can help a firm respond quickly to changes in markets and gain a better view of threats. In some cases, it can stimulate demand for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the company received for its Series C round. The case then describes iyzico’s origins and provides a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52998 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Buying Time Promotes Happiness By: Whillans, Ashley V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, Rene... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
These performance differences appear to be partially explained by the buy-side's higher retention of poor-performing analysts and by differences in performance benchmarks used to evaluate buy- and sell-side analysts. Cases & Course MaterialsCodman Academy: Beyond... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public offering and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
the ground there, and became interested in a start-up called New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) through the work that our student teams have done every January since the storm as part of the HBS New Orleans Service Immersion. This year... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
world. Countries have long used the spotlight the Olympics provide to celebrate their national pride and improve their international image. The first of these was in 1936, when Adolf Hitler used the Olympics in Berlin to try to show that... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Silicon Valley is the poster child for capitalism, the synergistic geography where smart private money supports cool ideas, creates jobs, boosts national productivity, and provides a handsome return for investors. Less well understood... View Details
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Harvard Business School Case 818-013 Magpie: Developing and Using Buyer Personas The founders of a start-up platform for publishers have developed preliminary personas of target customers and are evaluating the implications for initial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
Abstract We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
cost, serving as a national model. Failure, on the other hand, would have high institutional costs. Dr. Joaquin Montero, the head of Ancora and its intellectual father, must address the controversial project in the context of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
interest. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, an agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies. We assess the effect on participating firms' innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
section. They collect only five categories of consumer demographic data: age, sex, income, geography and e-mail. And yet they have been able to garner 70 percent premiums for their demographically targeted adverting. Knight Ridder has been successful in building out... View Details
- 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008
Holland, Switzerland, Russia, Romania, and Ukraine. It was founded by Hüsnü Özyeğin in 1987 and in April 2006, the National Bank of Greece (NBG) offered to buy part of the bank. Students can consider which factors contributed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Verlag, 2010 Abstract From small start-ups to global corporations, family-owned businesses were the main pillar of West Germany's economic growth after World War II. They continue to shape the corporate landscape to this day. This book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne