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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Out of the Valley
Episode 1: The Camel and the Unicorn Why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing it startup dominance—and what that could mean for the future of innovation. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Episode 2: A Creator in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
strategy and assessing your place in the competitive landscape. Tool 15, “Taming Co-opetition,” helps one determine the risks and rewards of sleeping with the enemy. Essentially, the advice is, don’t. “With few exceptions, being in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
kind of generosity. Royalties from this book go to Christian ministries focused on spreading the Gospel and providing for those in need. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
the bad news is that with younger audience is increasingly seeing heroin as OK, that heroin is cool for some reason. 20% of them think there is little or no risk in trying heroin, and 15% think it's OK to use heroin on a regular basis.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
extensions that would justify the heavy investment necessary to build a brand outside of Amazon. The question is whether there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Should Humpierres risk leaving Amazon in order to retain more control of the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
contractor wasn’t going to perform in any given year, they’d likely request a carryover,” notes Stuckey. “The division may get the request granted, but that puts them at risk for a budget mark, meaning ‘Big Navy’ cuts the budget because... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Planning the Future for Harlem’s Beloved Sylvia’s Restaurant
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
we’re going to examine why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing its startup crown and what that could mean for the future of innovation. READ MORE If you were asked to name some of the greatest entrepreneurial failures in history, you... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
the other special operations forces and, believe it or not, these forces have a five-year business plan where they have to organize, train, and equip our folks and allocate resources. Given the fiscal environment, it’s [about] making... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
fashion. That’s Rich. He’s very disciplined and just a consummate mariner. He has an almost religious fixation about doing things right and in exactly the same way. You don’t just put the winch handle down in the same place, you have it facing the same way. His style... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
has not yet been chosen—industries where all the brands are perceived as the same. (Here, think financial services, health care, and retail.) These industries are most at risk for disruption by this generation and offer an opportunity for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
always the risk of embarrassment: Maybe no one would sign up. On the other hand... Sahlman knew for a fact that whenever one of his colleagues offered a course that focused on people in a deal-making context, students signed up in droves.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 05 May 2020
- News
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
was extremely challenging. Nobody wanted to take a risk on this. But since then I’ve had a lot of dialogue with insurers that are looking at the sharing economy as an opportunity—some out of necessity. Society is becoming more urban;... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
necessary capital to launch and expand the business, with the first (raised during the Internet’s heyday) coming much more easily than the second. “When we launched the product, we were operating at a negative gross profit margin,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice of words, there’s broad agreement that the industry’s transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A new industry emerges Not so long ago,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
of experience that you gain by working for a reputable firm and getting training, mentoring that will lower your risk of failure later on. Everyone wants to be Bill Gates and Zuckerberg, but those are the outliers. That's not the norm.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
The following article is the fifth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. "With the time-honored marketing maxim "the customer is king" now reverberating throughout all parts of the firm, the traditional corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
to $40,000 a year. That was a high bar. So Clark switched to a subscription model: ShotSpotter would eat the upfront cost, operate the system itself, and charge cities an annual $65,000 per square mile for the service. And critically, it... View Details