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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Illustrations by James Steinberg It’s been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes science fact, and with science-based View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
his coauthors, correct some of the misinformation, describe how the thinking on the subject has evolved, and discuss the utility of the theory. They start by clarifying what classic disruption entails—a small enterprise targeting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Working PapersSocial Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart Abstract Actors often match with associates on a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
leaders. Inspired, Kloeblen formed a boutique, “CFO for hire” firm called “C-Street” that built a book of small business clients eager for seasoned financial expertise. Word spread and soon, Kloeblen was... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
techniques current in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Baker Library Historical Collections contains numerous account books of small proprietors dating from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Dun &... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
When you look at two of the biggest developments in business in the last 25 years — globalization and the Internet — Jeanne P. Jackson has been right in the thick of it. Before launching her own small investment and consulting View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
about 45 percent of NPE cases occur—mainly because NPEs find that the courts are plaintiff-friendly. NPEs are especially likely to sue firms that are tangled in other lawsuits, as well as firms with View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
four firms account for 75 percent of the Australian market. Research by my colleagues Jan Rivkin and Tarun Khanna suggests that industry structure can be quite different around the world. The wine industry is a great example of this... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
wind? How will local residents feel about windmill farms on their horizon? What effects will regulators have on the energy industry in the future? What unexpected opportunities or obstacles will pop up along the way? The course examines strategic choices faced by View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Focusing on miniaturization, Sony became the first mass marketer of small transistor radios and followed with the development of the first transistor-based microtelevision set. Then came the Walkman, the basic VCR, the CD, the CD-ROM, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- Web
Field Course: Venture Capital Journey - Course Catalog
(Flybridge co-founder and general partner), Field Course: Venture Capital Journey (VCJ) is designed for a small cohort of EC students who are serious about pursuing a career in venture capital – most of our students will enter the course... View Details
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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
manage a multi-business corporation?" to engender entrepreneurship and adaptability while maintaining control and realizing economies. All companies, whether large, diversified multinationals or small entrepreneurial startups, wrestle... View Details
- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
things in a way that I can be proud of instead of trying to climb up the ladder in the most efficient manner possible. The goal is to accept and learn from whatever the outcome is. Social: from desperately looking for "best friends" to cherishing View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
test using patent citations that indicates that entrants and small firms have relatively higher growth spillover effects Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Akcigit_Kerr_Growth_Feb2012.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
Choosing the United States
location decisions are incremental shifts of activities offshore; imagine a bucket with many small pinpricks. For instance, a software firm promotes American developers to high-end positions and hires... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
to New England. Industry observers thought his proposal for an LNG plant there, small by industry standards, was “totally harebrained,” Shearer recalled, but Trinidadian officials liked it. Three years of contentious negotiations with... View Details