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  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

considering the average likelihood of finding an acquisition partner is 8 percent. No more or less likely to go through an IPO. Landing funding and finding a buyer are considered key milestones of entrepreneurial success, making those... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

among elementary school students in math and science, painted a grim picture. Furthermore, in spite of the wealth created by many high-tech Israeli firms, socioeconomic gaps in the country had widened. A two-tier economy had formed. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

questions of how entrepreneurial leadership and strategy formulation can leverage the opportunities represented by the gaps between what the law says and what the market needs. It provides an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

allies. There's also a big gap between how these countries view Americans, the people, and America, the country. I have survey data in the book that show that. So why aren't we mobilizing more Americans to do good around the world?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

what are the key drivers of technology; and what are the macroeconomic consequences of technology. We prioritize in our discussion unified approaches to these three questions that are based on direct measures of technology. 2006 pub Dysfunction in the Boardroom:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52090 forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Heterogeneous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation. While arguments exist for and against policy support of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

labs and venture capital-backed firms, you see that there are both very real strengths and some serious limitations," Lerner says. "Much of the motivation for writing this book was to bridge the gap between the two models."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in 37 developed and developing nations. We focus both on individual characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

idea for using Winfrey as the basis for one of HBS' hallmark case studies began simply enough. In the spring of 2002 when Koehn was teaching the first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, student Mia Mends approached Koehn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Virtual fitting-room technologies provide information about how a product fits a particular customer and promise to mitigate some of the frictions the information gap generates in the retailers’ supply chains. By implementing a series of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

happy or saving the environment). Moreover, mediation analyses revealed that this effect was driven by differences in the size of the gap between participants' expectations and reality. Compared to those who pursued an abstractly framed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing themselves as narrowly self-interested players in a system that is overseen by others, business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

HBS research associate Brian DeLacey, are studying the processes of mentoring and coaching in entrepreneurial environments. Leonard and DeLacey discuss their findings with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne.Silverthorne: In... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

improved diversity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52703 Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation By: Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—We study the role of homophily in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

executives, middle managers, and sales people from companies across a variety of industries. The survey focused on questions about how well their companies’ strategies informed six critical elements of their sales approaches. The results indicate a big View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

high-skilled migration. We highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51997 Henry Kissinger:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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