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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
settle into the new Science and Engineering Complex, which is right across the street from the Harvard Innovation Labs and adjacent to Harvard’s planned Enterprise Research Campus, the future home of company labs, startups, and venture... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keen desire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the right direction, all of these people and entities saw nothing. Gina was the Penn and Teller of misdirection, acting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Wanderlust event. The brand, she says, is synonymous with “finding out what’s important to you and whether your life is moving in the right direction. Being vulnerable. Being honest with yourself.” Wanderlust retreats combine yoga,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies: 1) executive orientation and experience, 2) top management teams, 3) board-management relations, and 4) executive compensation. We discuss theoretical implications and consider... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Matthew PrebleHarvard Business School Case 912-402 George Weston, CEO of Associated British Foods, and his top executives are deciding how to position the company, a major agribusiness involved in a range... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
Cognitive trust is grounded in the belief that your co-workers and leaders are reliable and dependable. It’s a resume-like competency, and you can confer it right away; it is typically referred to as “swift trust.” But emotional trust is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
two interesting reasons. First, equity investors were protected because corporate bylaws included provisions to protect the rights of small shareholders. For instance, corporate bylaws could limit the voting power of large shareholders,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
speed of these changes, observing, "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the planning for this conference began several years ago, how central concepts such as interconnectivity and the Internet would be by the time we gathered here in 1996."... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
panic.—Edward Degas, artist But Tony is living the life of a wind-up toy, going through the motions of being a good father, a loving son, a good husband, a charming politician, and a resolute friend. He can say just the right things in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
brashness, and her disarming way,” says LeFrak, who first met Russo in Paris four years ago when they were inducted into the Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World organization. “I can’t say that she is the most driven person I have ever met, but she’s View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
played in accelerating innovation. We know that small, entrepreneurial firms are the source of much of the innovation in the economy—but our work suggested that in many industries the emergence of those firms is greatly facilitated by the View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
We have written about how top NFL coaches try to stay relevant over time. Our empirical evidence supports the idea that most organizational leaders see a decline in performance as they get more tenured, but some are immune to this... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
and Migrating Clusters of Innovation Author:William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
at its discretion. More generally, Google sets reserve prices for a variety of aspects of its marketplace-including the minimum price for an ad to appear at all, the minimum price for a position in the valuable space at the top of search... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
the broadband explosion to come into being. But other countries are moving much more aggressively to create new broadband infrastructure. One result is that the United States appears to be slipping behind. According to some measures, the United States is not even in... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
seedy Sportatorium during a winter morning in 1992. Kelleher's "athletic" look, topped off with a sweatband pushing back his hair, was deliberately undercut by a cigarette dangling defiantly from his lips. Surrounded by an... View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
strong finance and legal teams" as sources of risk aversion. But other respondents concluded that it doesn't have to happen, and proposed antidotes to the phenomenon, starting with David Levine's "list" of "a strong force at the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
planning here, whatever, rather than even a few years. A: My impression is that they've been looking for leadership a long time, and they've had a lot of problems finding people to work at the top of Ford. So it's not really a month. This... View Details