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- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
used for. So I decided to throw a summit on Necker Island and got a bunch of people together so they could communicate in person. And I divided up a bunch of really cool developers View Details
- 2008
- Chapter
The Evidence Does Not Speak for Itself: Expert Witnesses and the Organization of DNA-Typing Companies
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
During the past 15 years, new biotechnology companies have promoted DNA typing as a sophisticated criminal and paternity identification technique. Private testing laboratories produce results that link individuals with crime scenes and fathers to their children.... View Details
- October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Background Note
Running and Growing the Small Company: Course Overview
Addresses challenges facing managers, presidents, and owners in generating and sustaining superior performance, especially as a company broadens its mix of goods and services, increases the volume of its sales, and enlarges the size of its workforce. The critical... View Details
Spear, Steven J. "Running and Growing the Small Company: Course Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 602-077, October 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia
The literature on the private provision of public goods suggests an inverse relationship between incentives to contribute and group size. We find, however, that after an exogenous reduction of group size at Chinese Wikipedia, the nonblocked contributors decrease... View Details
- Research Summary
Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
events. "In America and around the world, the public has lost trust in business," says Hess. "Business and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- April 2008
- Case
Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston and Dr. Bradford J. Shingleton (2004)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marcelo Pancotto
Dr. Bradford Shingleton has developed some of the highest quality eye surgery techniques in the industry. He involves his nurses and technicians in creating a surgical service that is constantly improving. The case has many details about how Dr. Shingleton works with... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Independent Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Performance Productivity; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry; Boston
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marcelo Pancotto. "Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston and Dr. Bradford J. Shingleton (2004)." Harvard Business School Case 608-151, April 2008.
- 2012
- Book
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
By: Noam Wasserman
Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Partners and Partnerships; Social Psychology; Outcome or Result
Wasserman, Noam. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Princeton University Press, 2012. (Academy of Management award - One of Top Five Business Books of the Year
Independent Publishers Association - Top Business Books of the Year, Entrepreneurship category (Axiom-Silver award))
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
that Khoja—a genial, solidly built man who clearly enjoys a good story—can tell as an example of how Roshan has changed a country crippled for decades by corruption, poverty, and conflict. But before Roshan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Performance Measurement in Philanthropy by Michael E. Porter & Mark Kramer Charitable foundations justly take pride in the good works that they enable. But what does it mean for a foundation to perform well? View Details
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Clusters and Economic Policy: Aligning Public Policy with the New Economics of Competition
The fundamental goal of economic policy is to enhance competitiveness, which is reflected in the productivity with which a nation or region utilizes its people, capital, and natural endowments to produce valuable goods and services. High and rising productivity,... View Details
Keywords: Economics
Porter, Michael E. "Clusters and Economic Policy: Aligning Public Policy with the New Economics of Competition." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, October 2009.
- March 2024
- Background Note
Physical Climate Risk
By: Michael W. Toffel, Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart
This note describes how managers can identify their company’s physical climate risks, which can heighten the risk of business disruption, change the costs of operations and supply chains, and affect the demand for their goods and services. The note also provides a... View Details
- February 2016 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
Chilli Beans: Peace, Love, and Sunglasses
By: José B. Alvarez, Robert Mackalski and Andrew Otazo
This case illustrates how Chilli Beans became the most popular sunglasses retailer in Brazil and the issues it faced when expanding into the United States. View Details
Keywords: Sunglasses; Brazil; Sao Paulo; Chilli Beans; Watches; Fast Fashion; Supply Chain; Retail; Franchise; International Expansion; Culture; Middle Class; Fashion; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Design; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Goods and Commodities; Leadership; Marketing; Operations; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Brazil; China
Alvarez, José B., Robert Mackalski, and Andrew Otazo. "Chilli Beans: Peace, Love, and Sunglasses." Harvard Business School Case 516-020, February 2016. (Revised August 2016.)
- 19 Aug 2020
- News
A Low-Risk Way You Can Invest In Minority And Women Entrepreneurs
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
don't. In principle one can say, absolutely, there's a slippery slope, let's be very careful not to fall down it, let's write the laws carefully and amend them when we discover abuses. You can negotiate how to write the laws. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
caregivers—physicians and nurses—on the other.6 Administrators kept emphasizing, "Cut costs, save money." Caregivers replied, "We're not good at cutting costs; we cure children View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Combining an Interest in Music and Business
discovery and I think I am in the right track to soon figure it out (or at least temporarily feel like I have). What this whole thing has made me reflect on is that when it comes to recruiting, you are most likely going to find a View Details
- March 1987 (Revised April 1987)
- Background Note
Specialties vs. Commodities: The Battle for Profit Margins
Explains the differences between commodities and specialties and defines four different types of specialty products. The analysis is customer oriented. Special attention is given to the distinctions between functions (product- ) and relationship (vendor-oriented)... View Details
Keywords: Goods and Commodities
Shapiro, Benson P. "Specialties vs. Commodities: The Battle for Profit Margins." Harvard Business School Background Note 587-120, March 1987. (Revised April 1987.)