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- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
rationalized step processes vs. open platform systems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52466 Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings By: Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo Abstract—Among stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2021
- Case
Founders Factory
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett
In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Markets; Planning; Expansion; Global Range; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Africa; South Africa; Johannesburg; Europe; France; Paris; United Kingdom; England; London; United States; New York (city, NY)
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and James Barnett. "Founders Factory." Harvard Business School Case 821-009, March 2021.
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
managers' leadership competencies (namely, their effectiveness at person-oriented and task-oriented behaviors) and the likelihood that they will emphasize the different activities involved in planned organizational change implementation (namely, communicating the need... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
necessary book, arriving not a moment too soon." Robert Reich writes "Anyone who wants to understand modern America should read this captivating book." Her 2012 The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times , explores the many ways... View Details
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago about the dismal job market for newly minted MBAs. Jeremy Andrus (MBA 2002) certainly does. Upon graduation, with no job offers, Andrus decamped to his... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39382 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 913-041 SaferTaxi: Connecting Taxis and Passengers in South America SaferTaxi, a taxi booking service in South America, must develop its View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
pipeline at every stage; if we could, then good things would happen,” he says. After HBS, Rice worked at Walt Disney Co. for four years, in new business development and marketing. Next he joined the National Basketball Association as managing director of NBA Japan and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
across medicine. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52286 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long-Run Survival By: Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
expertise, defensible turf, and organizational support. We demonstrate that these elements must be combined in specific pathways for knowledge-based innovative structures to emerge and embed. These pathways emerge from practitioner networks, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—:software, animation, and mobile... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
in expectation. We also show that by offering both CPC and CPA, an ad platform can weakly increase its revenues compared to offering either alternative alone. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-074.pdf Competition and Resource Sensitivity in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
markets and ecosystems through their ability to transfer a package of financial, organizational, and cultural assets, skills, and ideologies across national borders. It argues such firms have been shapers of, as well as responders to,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- September 2020 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
Uber: Competing Globally
By: Alexander J. MacKay
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Strategy; Globalization; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation Networks; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai; Shanghai Shi; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; London; England; Latin America; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); South America; Colombia
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
measure. Flexibility attracts talent For Oberholzer-Gee, the Prop 22 results showed that voters, like DoorDash drivers, saw flexibility as the most important element of gig work. As regulations are debated from state to state, he says, “it’s hard to know how large the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Ashraf, an associate professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “Asking them to apply something that's been generated somewhere else isn't involving them in the process” But there's a dearth... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
measure. Flexibility attracts talent For Oberholzer-Gee, the Prop 22 results showed that voters, like DoorDash drivers, saw flexibility as the most important element of gig work. As regulations are debated from state to state, he says, “it’s hard to know how large the... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
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Organizations & Markets James Sebenius Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent General Management Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 The Anatomy of Fraud... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
workplace. Across six studies, we found convergent evidence that emotional acknowledgment led to greater perceptions of costliness, and in turn, to higher evaluations of trust.” Working Papers Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices:... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
one of “empower(ing) every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” He was quoted as saying, “My mission is to put empathy at the center of everything I pursue—from the products we launch, to the new markets we enter,... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace