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- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
self-employed person declined 19 percent in real terms between 2007 and 2010, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. And a survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) noted that small... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
poor can pay for what they need, and scale is not a challenge but a friend. In 2003 it had over one million clients, said Chu. Microfinance was not the purview only of ACCION, however. In 1992, Bolivia's Bancosol, he said, became the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
that with the first scholarly business history of Modern Turkey. Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives was co-edited by Asli M. Colpan, of the Kyoto University, Graduate School of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
students look mediocre, or worse, in comparison to students in other industrialized countries. Urban districts on average perform far below national averages, and have highly concentrated student enrollments. In fact, while the 100... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
between shareholders and boards." He adds that it forces both entities to grapple with an extremely complex issue. "To have more say on pay, you need to have something to say in the first place." One At A Time The political... View Details
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
Stevens — we never learn his first name—set out early in life to become a great butler, one of the very best. He didn't want to get rich at it. He didn't care for fancy clothes. What Stevens wanted more than anything, according to HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
with the unsexy title, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Co-edited by HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler and James W. Cortada, the story starts out... 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
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
valuable networking benefits through networked incubators. The first is Brainshark.com, a year-old company that got started in a Boston-based incubator called Reach Internet Incubator. A year ago, founders Joe Gustafson and Mark Yacovone... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
firms’ information environment by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the form of a reduction in litigation risk resulting from the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank. I View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
challenging conditions, such as the following, are present: When cultures clash. Negotiators from diverse organizational, professional, or national cultures often bring clashing assumptions to the table. As Ming-Jer Chen, the former... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
disclosing their inventions or filing in foreign countries in the interests of national security. Secrecy orders were issued most heavily in areas important to the war effort—including radar, electronics, and synthetic materials—and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
American company that filed for bankruptcy protection in January. The company developed the first digital camera in 1975. Yet Kodak was never able to ride the digital wave over the long haul, and the company's invention ironically served... View Details
- 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
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
innovation rather than responding to it. She recalled HUD’s 2014 National Disaster Resilience Competition, which awarded a total of $1 billion in funds to tackle climate change. Rather than simply soliciting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of health care spending, we should launch a decade-long national "Healthy Living" campaign focusing on nutrition, diet, physical fitness, and stress reduction. We cannot continue to ignore the obesity epidemic sweeping the... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
market because we don't have any national supermarket chains. Except for Wal-Mart. That's a very interesting story in itself. Wal-Mart is, I think, the number five grocery retailer in the United States. The great advantage it has is that... View Details
- 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... View Details