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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Good Start Genetics is developing a low-cost, sequencing based, pre-pregnancy test for multiple genetic disorders that will replace one-disorder-only tests currently on the market. Insightsquared Frederick Shilmover , MBA 2010 Jacob... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
would you base a decision on?'" But the pressures are many. What will my boss think? What will my team think? If you make smart business decisions, she said, you will make fewer mistakes. "And you know what? You'll like yourself... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield
her, the company looks desperate, not attractive.” What went wrong? “The time between the company’s offer and the student’s decision is very important,” says Murphy. On one side of the negotiating table, students are considering multiple... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an emergent goal that presented an innovative solution to a new problem and became the basis of the new company's business model. We analyze this process to explain how, under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
wasn’t true—there were land mines, left over from years of conflict. Those had to be cleared before cell phone towers and the maintenance roads leading to them could be built. Available maps and government statistics were often inaccurate—one View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Genentech, Amgen, Dell, and Compaq didn't exist in 1975! Once these managers decided to allocate a percentage to venture investments, they typically increased that percentage by investing in multiple venture funds and diversifying within... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
“Good entrepreneurs are learning machines, so they’re always asking for advice and guidance from multiple sources of expertise, including their investors. In fact, the best founders are outstanding at squeezing every bit of insight,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
pipeline, it joined with Catalyst to undertake research. The result was a coalition of large companies and multiple business schools to create Forte which had as its mission to fill the pipeline for women to get MBA degrees.”), expanding... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
saw this effect in the modeling world, but I wanted to test it in the real world,” says Chung, an assistant professor. “The best way to do that was to perform a field experiment.” For real-world proof of how quotas affect sales performance, the researchers View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
have no identifying documents at all, and yet multiple documents are required to access government services, such as ration cards for subsidized food. Indians without the necessary documents are often denied services or resort to bribing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)
capital gap. Some companies fully finance their projects with venture rounds raised at the parent company rather than fundraising directly at a project-level SPV—particularly true for smaller projects. Others partner with strategics to create JVs. And others take the... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
discounts that are nearly 50% greater than existing customers who are purchasing upgrades of a product. On the product side, one common lock-in strategy—the offering of broad product "suites" which span multiple product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Actually, the CEO cannot make most decisions, or even review them. The CEO is powerful, but multiple constituencies can exercise power as well, starting with the board. The shortening CEO tenure reveals that many leaders misunderstand the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
selected was the only candidate considered. Far too few companies conduct reference checks; far too many rely on gut reactions when judging qualifications and cultural fit. Hardly anyone considers whether candidates will be good team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
worth of a new industry. Analyses of data from multiple sources revealed that framing by early entrepreneurs and the socio-cognitive processes that resulted from the transactions of field-constituents with the new industry constructed the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we are seeing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
thirty-nine-year-old fellow we interviewed cashed out his start-up software business for a cool $19 million in 1999 and felt ashamed to tell his peers he hadn't made more! When records break at such earth-shattering speed, being all we can be doesn't just get tougher,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
and CEO and added a veteran executive team filled with his former industry colleagues—including former CFO Cabot Brown (MBA 1987)—all of them bringing not only two or three decades of experience in drug development, fundraising, and... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
advantage. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/11/how-great-companies-think-differently/ar/1 Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk—Part I Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes Publication:Balanced Scorecard Report 13, no. 4... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne