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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies seldom make sense to managers, given their corporate perspective. There are two reasons for this. First, customers exert tremendous influence over managers' decisions and the directions they pursue. Since customers cannot use... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets encouraged large-scale View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
deals with ethics, governance, and legal issues. “At that point the case changed to focus on tensions between pricing as a reward for investment in R&D versus making a product available to poor people who will die without it,” says... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
to recent research. Enter the era of “spray and pray,” where venture firms over the last decade have seeded more firms than previously, but with less upfront investment of time and money. As someone who teaches entrepreneurial finance,... View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
candidates. Unconscious bias and a resulting lack of diversity can also impact a company’s bottom line. A study of venture capital firms found that “the more similar the investment partners, the lower their investments’ performance.” A... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Investment and South Africa (B) Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Updates the 2006 case to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
platform and emphasized his position as a Washington-outsider. He proved to be an unpredictable and incendiary candidate on the campaign trail, garnering much media attention and creating divisions within the traditional Republican base, yet his View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
course, referred to a type of analytic data that might suggest nontraditional indicators designed to provide a competitive edge in everything from investments to selection of talent. One such example is the use of puzzles to select... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
we create a category?” How they answered the question: “It’s a question that’s still top of mind,” says Rose. The company has focused on defining its brand as one that provides “wonder, emotion, and meaning,” and communicating those values to consumers, primarily... View Details
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Sarah Zia
cultural norms for how to work in groups. My leadership style constantly flexed based on whom I was teaching or working with. While some people were more nervous and preferred gentle coaching, others appreciated “tough love” and direct... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the United States. I characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and mortality rates after... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
concerns with foreign direct investment. Ends with a depiction of the Bills passed unanimously by the U.S. House and Senate to further regulate foreign investment in the wake of the DP World debacle.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
facilitating face-to-face interactions can provide information that impacts the formation of scientific collaborations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-023.pdf Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
magnified in the online channel. Customer analysis suggests that opening retail stores paves the way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
most promising young leaders firsthand, lived experience in parts of the world that, frankly, too few of us have had direct exposure to, and many, many more of us need to understand firsthand. Flint: Why have Americans been slower to come... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Foreign Direct Investment, Productivity, and Financial Development: An Empirical Analysis of Complementarities and Channels Authors:Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Publication:The World Economy (forthcoming). (Special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace