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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly managed firms in the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
differences appear to be associated with different models of development—open, distributed organizations developing systems with smaller cores. We find that core components are often dispersed throughout a system, making their detection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
are also becoming more concentrated geographically—for example, Chinese inventors in San Francisco—and appear to play an important role for shifts in the spatial distributions of U.S. innovation. Q: Is there a direct or indirect impact on... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and steel in blast and open-hearth furnaces and foundries. The distribution of educational kits provided another vehicle for reaching elementary, junior high, and high school classes. For example, How Steel Is Made , a science kit created... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
associate knowledge with editorials, professional and customer reviews, and ratings systems. Expanding fulfillment networks get products to customers in increasingly shorter time windows, defeating any convenience advantage that category killers might have.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
its own film distribution business with the country's largest theater chain, Regal Entertainment Group. Led by CEO Tom Ortenberg, Open Road Films focuses on independent films such as Chef, starring Jon... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
fed by some four thousand media sources that can give sports business executives an immediate idea of what platforms, products, or people are moving the industry—and which ones aren’t. “We’re helping our clients stay on top of comparative... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
did total operating expenses. This landmark reflected the expansion of core programs and higher MBA enrollment. The growth also reflected the rising costs required to maintain those revenue sources while continuing to invest in the... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spreads have lower means, lower cross-country correlations, and lower sensitivity to global risk factors. We discuss several major sources of credit-spread differentials, including positively correlated credit and currency risk, selective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
FAQ - Alumni
Alumni Track. Prizes will be distributed by Alumni Relations in the weeks following the Finale. What are the important dates? 10/1/24 Applications open 12/5/24 Past winners’ panel 1/31/25 5 pm ET... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
customers and drive distribution for other products in a company's portfolio. A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
centralization." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-059.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how both the entry rate and the distribution of entry sizes for new startups responded to changes in banking competition. Moreover, we distinguish the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
collectively with businesses and academics worldwide to generate globally relevant knowledge.” The formation of the HBS Global Initiative in 1996 and the opening of research centers in Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and Paris is clearly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
the Web 3 and crypto markets, that had been seen as the big disruptive force for society a year earlier, were limping through a crypto winter. Companies that had been slated to restructure financial market declared bankruptcy. Leaders like Sam Bankman-Fried who... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father's first establishment. Watching Americans dine out, Aoki had concluded... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
in the path-breaking work on authoritarian regimes. In this paper, we take a deeper look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating that profound differences between the polities directly impact distributional choices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
themselves, Kahawa 1893 cuts out some of the traditional middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
fun. “We have a lot of challenges, but inventory management is one of our biggest. Even though our wipes are simple and small, there are still several materials that need to be sourced to put it all together—and all of these add... View Details