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- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak,... View Details
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
plays with which to form their overall strategy—both during the big game and afterward in the marketplace. What's In An Ad? Thales and his fellow researchers divided advertisements into four types. Here are... View Details
Climate Risk is Growing. Is Your Company Prepared?
Most people don’t have a strategy for for how to handle the worsening perils of flooding, wildfires and extreme heat. They should adopt a four step process for protecting their property, whether it be a home or a business. First, they should prioritize how... View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
Working PapersCartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies Author:Jeffrey Fear Abstract This article provides an overview on the rise and fall of cartels since the late 19th century when the modern cartel movement properly arrived with the rise of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
HBS, he believes his lack of graduate degrees may have proved an advantage, allowing him to transcend the confines of particular disciplines and think holistically. Whether the subject is Third-World development or national competitiveness, Lodge has exercised his... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- September 2020
- Case
The Black New Venture Competition
Black entrepreneurs encounter many unique obstacles when raising capital to start and grow a business. During their second year at Harvard Business School (HBS), MBA students Kimberly Foster and Tyler Simpson decided to do something to make a difference for... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Start-up; Startup Financing; Startups; Start-ups; African-American Protagonist; African-american Entrepreneurs; African-american Investors; African-Americans; African-American Women; Black Leadership; Black Inventors; Black Entrepreneurs; Harvard Business School; Harvard; Business And Society; Early Stage Funding; Early Stage Finance; Technology Entrepreneurship; Discrimination; Technology Ventures; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Financing; Business Plan; Business Startups; Business Ventures; Financing and Loans; Business Growth and Maturation; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Small Business; Leadership; Information Technology; Competition; Technology Industry
Mills, Karen, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Martin Sinozich, and Gabriella Elanbeck. "The Black New Venture Competition." Harvard Business School Case 821-029, September 2020.
- 2022
- Case
Charting a Course for Boston: Organizing for Change
By: Lisa C. Cox, Mitchell B. Weiss and Jorrit De Jong
Michelle Wu had been elected on the promise of systemic change, but four days after her November 2021 election and just eleven days before taking office as mayor of Boston, she was still considering how best to staff and manage a range of over-arching priorities.... View Details
Cox, Lisa C., Mitchell B. Weiss, and Jorrit De Jong. "Charting a Course for Boston: Organizing for Change." Cambridge, MA, United States: Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Case, 2022.
- October 2008
- Article
Evaluating the CEO
By: Stephen P. Kaufman
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives
Kaufman, Stephen P. "Evaluating the CEO." First Person. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008).
- Article
The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History
By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry
Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
Jones, G., Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, and Stephen Broadberry. "The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History." Scandinavian Economic History Review 60, no. 3 (2012): 225–253.
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
four times over the last hundred years they've been in existence." But he said they still offer customers a variety that many value. "It's hard to find a store today in the country where you can go in and buy multiple brands... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
Administration, holds a joint appointment at Harvard School of Public Health as Professor in Health Policy and Management. Creating Demand One big open question is the degree to which illegal demand will be significantly diminished by the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
first head coaching job in 2006 with the New Orleans Saints, and won the Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year award that year; Chuck Noll, who took his first head coach job with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969 and coached the team to victory in View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
application of that work to the company's own products." Now a provider to multiple vendors, Big Blue has become eager to be part of the solution to a problem rather than determined to be the only solution. Long a leading... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
As a child in the sun-bathed cityscape of West Los Angeles, I grew up amongst the gifts of a loving family, supportive schools, and a tranquil middle-class neighborhood. From L.A., I found my way to UC Berkeley and then to San Francisco, where I spent View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
Cross-Border Reverse Mergers: Causes and Consequences
By: Jordan Siegel and Yanbo Wang
We study non-U.S. companies that have used reverse mergers as a means to adopt U.S. corporate law (and sometimes U.S. securities law as well). Early adopters of cross-border reverse mergers and those firms that hired a Big Four auditor exhibited superior corporate... View Details
Siegel, Jordan, and Yanbo Wang. "Cross-Border Reverse Mergers: Causes and Consequences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-089, April 2012. (Revised December 2012, March 2013, September 2013.)
- 15 Jul 2012
- News
Productivity Trick: Hide!
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
security," Aamir Rehman commented that "the lifestyles of some executives make them unstable despite their wealth." Fernando das Neves Gomes diagnosed the problem in this thoughtful way: "I think much of the time the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
This is a repost from the Alumni Stories blog. In this special First Five Years post, four alumni recently named to the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list—Akash Pradhan (MBA 2017), Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015), Anthony Tucker (MBA 2017), and Anish... View Details