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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
elective: International Entrepreneurial Finance. As he explained in a presentation to other HBS professors during the Faculty Research Symposium on May 20, the research project has led him to examine in detail twenty-nine sites that cover... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
product categories on the Internet. An analysis by Harris Interactive ecommercePulse computed the ratio of dollars consumers spent offline as a result of online shopping to dollars spent online. The greater the ratio, the more likely that... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
Welcome to the age of business interdependence, say HBS professor Marco Iansiti and collaborator Roy Levien, authors of the new HBSP book The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
It's easy to deliver lousy service. Examples are too numerous to mention and let's not ruin the day, shall we? But imagine this: How about living in a world where companies treat you, as a customer, nicely and it benefits them as well as you? Such companies exist, says... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
A conversation with Nancy Koehn, author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood to Dell, HBS Press, 2001. "I am just fascinated by the power, the quirks, the determination, and the durability of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
Someone is out to shoot down your best ideas. Do you know how to defend yourself? In their new book, Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, HBS professor emeritus John P. Kotter and University of British Columbia professor... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in collaboration with former View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business innovation, HBS professor Clayton Christensen has written a new book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
In his recent Working Paper, "Marketing's Role in Cross-Sector Collaboration," HBS professor James Austin outlines three stages of collaboration between businesses and nonprofits—philanthropic, transactional, and integrative... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
Editor's note: In their new book, The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development, HBS professor Josh Lerner and London School of Economics professor Mark Schankerman look at the impact of open source software on economic... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
computer to access data stored on another and to interact with that information. As he publicized his innovation among his fellow employees and across the computing community, people admired the quality of his work. In fact, in... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
What's next for Web services? In his case summary "Will Web Services Really Transform Collaboration?" published in the Winter 2005 edition of MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee argues that the... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it's been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact with patients every day.... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by HBS faculty is already earmarked... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?— Alfred Wise,Share Our Strength The session, led by HBS professor James E. Austin, featured three managers whose experiences highlight the challenges and benefits of thinking... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
The U.S. Army is one of the best training institutions in the world, says HBS professor Scott A. Snook, a retired Army colonel. How does the Army develop leaders? Snook discusses his new book, Making Sense of Officership: Developing a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer
Changing consumer behaviors have redefined what it means to be direct to consumer ("DTC"). What once began online a decade ago as a distribution and disintermediation strategy has since evolved into a multifaceted approach for the modern-day brand.
The... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
interact is also crucial. For example, in one opportunity at Capitalyst 3, a Web developer with $5 million in sales was raising its first round of capital on a $10 million valuation. Two comparable companies in the marketplace were worth... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson