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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
assumptions for 2009 as well as 2010. All mining companies are cutting back across the board; they’re curtailing greenfield exploration as well as developmental brownfield projects. Because demand, especially from China, will surge, there’s going to be a severe... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
before. And anarchy has always yielded back to law and order. In this excerpt from her new book, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet, Spar looks to history to put the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
are getting hit hard in the recession. It’s only very recently that we’re seeing the proverbial green shoots. The hotel business is cyclical; it’s managing those cycles that is important. I do think we’re pretty well hedged in terms of... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
earlier in their life cycles than ever before. It was so easy to reach liquidity in such a short time that a lot of people believed that was the norm. We're now going back to the viewpoint that it's going to take five or ten years when... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- November 2024
- Teaching Note
Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?
By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Making; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Business Cycles; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Market Timing; Expansion; Diversification; Valuation; Value Creation; Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation Offer; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
gender and work, the paper, An Outside- Inside Internalization of Shifting Gender Logics in Professional Work, identifies cycles of organizational analysis and resulting actions sparked by transformations in societal beliefs and practices... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
PublicationsOn the Integration of Growth and Business Cycles Author:Diego Comin Periodical:Empirica (forthcoming) Abstract This paper presents evidence on the relevance of macro models where endogenous technological change mechanisms are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
that something about their culture needs to change. This awareness often comes later in an organization’s life cycle than it should, and part of our mission here is to shorten that timeline. For pedagogical reasons, we’re going to simply... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
attractive place to invest. The investment and venture capital cycle is continuously changing, and one of the most fascinating internal discussions is often around where we’re in the cycle. When you first evaluated Facebook three years... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
suggests that social media may promote knowledge sharing because they allow social lubrication and the formation of trust. Our longitudinal and comparative analysis of social media usage at two large firms indicates that users who participate in non-work interactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
across multiple generations. A More Just Future By Dolly Chugh (MBA 1994; PHDOB 2006) Atria Books The racial fault lines of our country have been revealed in stark detail as our national news cycle is flooded with stories about the past.... 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 profession, with the social... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery and religion. We then profile the characteristics of inventors and their life View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
the world of startups. It also describes how certain industries, like energy, are poorly suited to the investment profile of traditional venture capitalists. The product development cycle is too long and the capital required to develop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
restaurant reviews with Yelp's algorithmic indicator of fake reviews. Using this imperfect indicator as a proxy, we develop an empirical methodology to identify the points in the life cycle of a business during which review fraud is most... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
vulnerable are economic interventions to capture by politicians, how are captured resources used, and how costly are the resulting distortions? This paper answers these questions in the context of the credit market in India. Integrating theories of political budget... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
companies, compares the benefits of studying the Valley to those that scientists gain when studying fruit flies. "There are very short life cycles in this area, so you can learn a lot in a short amount of time," says Datar, who is a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
controlled electro-mechanical systems. He began his career building robots, including biomimetic robotic tuna fish at MIT, undersea remotely operated vehicles at Deep Sea Systems, and full-size walking dinosaurs at Walt Disney Imagineering R&D. Scott joined iRobot... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
spends approximately one-third of its net income on R&D and employs nearly 3,000 researchers. At Natura, an innovation cycle starts with a monthly meeting among the company's three presidents, its marketing director, and the R&D... View Details