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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
insignificant, faculty and student organizers emphasize that the contest’s value lies well beyond such monetary rewards and services, which are donated by corporate sponsors and the HBS Entrepreneurship Program. “The measure of View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
stores with higher information-gathering costs for headquarters). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters of technology. Read... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
entrepreneurs faced questions about their impact as they expanded the scale of their operations. While scaling was a sign of success and delivered many benefits to Costa Rica, there were distinct drawbacks from a sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
small inventors. NPE patent trolling has a real negative impact on targeted firms, without any increase in innovation, technology transfer, or other counterbalancing benefits measured thus far. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
American market. A successful engineer, entrepreneur, and sustainable development champion, Willums was CEO of Think Global AS (TH!NK), a privately held Norwegian maker of electric vehicles (EVs). Having already raised $85 million in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
returns. Digital advertising provides marketers with renewed opportunity to measure advertising effectiveness. Economists draw on both existing theories of advertising and the tools of econometrics to test and evaluate advertising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social and economic change as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
of successful leadership is recognizing when it is not needed And what is almost always not needed are the dozens of books on the shelves in the leadership section ” Sherri Holland added to this a thought-provoking notion of leadership... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
helping loan applicants while still making a profit, Los Andes was more concentrated on the means to an end—the process of training and managing the novice employees. Because it took longer to train newbies than it would take to coach seasoned professionals, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Past Issues - Alumni
successful career—and a life well lived The Path Ahead Dean Datar answers alumni questions about his vision for the future of the School My Pandemic Year A view from the HBS campus, in the words and drawings of one student Complete Table... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
successful transition to remote learning, delivering 30 courses virtually. All of the Program's graduates were fully employed at graduation, and the School developed a financial aid plan to support an additional year for those students... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
to take that first step.” Then one of the most successful investors in Silicon Valley—all 6'4" of him—plunges into the water clothed in suit and tie. The students follow hesitantly, until the water is teeming with hooting 20-somethings... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
from molds. It was also dependent on tariffs and benefited from disruptions caused by European wars: The first half of the 20th century offered plenty of both. By the 1940s, Westmoreland had moved away from high-quality, hand-decorated, and hand-cut glass and enjoyed... View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
overhead often causes support function employees to go on the defensive, attempting to prove their worth by becoming corporate bureaucrats who enforce sometimes meaningless rules in an attempt to affect the bottom line. This unfortunately leads them to regress into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
they sell, the more they are helping to keep our oceans free of plastics. Because companies find success using our certified material, it creates demand for more material —and that further incentives collection in at-risk communities,... View Details