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- 27 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)
threat of lawsuits. A recent report found that companies were shedding diversity-related roles at a faster pace than non-DEI roles. Just two years ago, companies seemed to be making nascent progress on DEI. While only 6.3 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
gave a seminal speech that laid out his vision for the future of e-commerce, a moment that left Beck transfixed. At the same time, the nascent New Venture Competition was just being unveiled and Beck found herself at the intersection of... View Details
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
disadvantaged geographies and nascent industries, and they exhibit more risk tolerance and patience. However, the authors also find employee satisfaction tends to decline once an impact investment is made. “In their mind, if they give a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Nov 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Secrets for Creating a Long-Lasting Brand
aboard with a plan to revive the brand. Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX) Companies that come to epitomize a nascent market—think Uber, Starbucks, or SpaceX—can capture greater success than other startups.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
founding N of One in 2014, he helped convene the first-ever conference on autism and the microbiome at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, in Little Rock. “The field was so nascent that, despite ying researchers in from as far away as Sweden,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
Limits to Network Effects Authors:Hann Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets rationally prefer a platform restricting choice rather than a platform that offers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
pickleball, a nascent market in which no one has the answers and the playbook has not been written. But reading the numbers, McCarthy sees an opening. The sport has a natural stickiness to it. Add to that... View Details
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Competition provides a unique opportunity for students to put entrepreneurship principles into practice with an integrative learning experience. Students may participate in either the Business Track (for ventures whose economic returns drive substantial View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance By: Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning Abstract— We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
positive earnings surprises and positive analyst revisions in the months following passage of the bill, as well as significantly higher future sales and profitability. We show that the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
something new in the geography of firms and the ways in which firms related to nation-states. And I wanted to put together a way for managers, academics, and policymakers to understand these nascent changes. Q: Have there been more recent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
History - Entrepreneurship
businesses. Most graduates wait until they have a high potential idea they are truly passionate about. Often, such ideas come through in-depth experience in a market and exposure to unsatisfied customer needs – experience that may be... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
their houses to total strangers who may or may not be serial killers. Five VC firms rejected the nascent company’s pitch outright, and another two didn’t even bother to reply. “Investors must have thought, who would ever do this?” says... View Details
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
One might expect first-time entrepreneurs to pick up speed as they churn out more products, but new research finds that nascent firms typically launch second products six weeks later than originally planned. What’s more, with each... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
company’s nascent sales function as Augmedix grows. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-053 Susan Cassidy at Bertram Gilman International In 2016, Susan Cassidy, VP... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
was the best in the country: Radcliffe. “I was a feminist early on,” says Lang, whose life’s work includes building a picture-framing store and a photo business, blazing a trail as a high-tech leader, raising three children, and advocating for women. Lang entered the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
Working PapersThe Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-124.pdf First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract We study the effect of two-sided platforms' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
category for “Zebra Medical Vision” with Sarah Gulick (HBS Case 619-014, September 2018). Christian Kaps : Winner of the 2024 Best PhD Paper Award from the Commodity & Energy Markets Association for "Residential Battery Storage—Reshaping... View Details