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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors Your company’s scientists and investors can be antennas that bring great ideas into your company. The key, says Associate Professor Lee Fleming, is understanding... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
values that you hear in the research around weak ties, but there's also mental health and physical health benefits of just having human interaction on a daily basis. DM: And then the second one, purpose, of course, that seems pretty... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
need. This is often the biggest weakness in entrepreneurship. Many people, especially tech people, lead with a solution in search of a problem. I also often see entrepreneurs leap from the see stage to the scale stage. They layer lots of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
leading apparel maker Liz Claiborne Inc. (LC) were coming off a sixteen-year high that had begun to wane in 1992. A combination of factors — the national recession, weak spending on women's apparel, increased competition, department... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
out on an entrepreneurial path but was thwarted by the country’s lack of a finance and lending infrastructure. A similar shortcoming in the mortgage and lending industry also delayed his family’s ability to buy a house until his father was nearly 60 years old, These... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
thought it would allow me to have a direct impact for a while.” The interesting business model that attracted Gibbons to NIB was also the organization’s weak point only a few years earlier. As a nonprofit organization established by the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
video conferencing platform Zoom exploded. In the case “Zoom Video Communications and COVID-19,” authors Associate Professor Scott Duke Kominers and George Gonzalez, the center’s senior researcher, examine Zoom’s strengths and weaknesses... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
associate professor Yasheng Huang asserts that it is not strengths but weaknesses in the Chinese economy that are responsible for some of the country’s impressive FDI figures. Huang argues that foreign direct investment in China surged... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student learned the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the systemic... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
self-assessments. They can measure their accounting, quantitative reasoning, and writing skills to determine their strengths and weaknesses in order to better prepare themselves for the Program. In addition, for the first time we are... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
from something more thorough than the brief statistical reports that were then the typical product available. “We wanted to do research that added value by analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses in long reports that provided an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
(Harvard Business Review Press) Drawing on his years of experience studying and advising VC firms, companies, and governments, Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
who won an auction for about $19 million in government-seized bitcoins in July. “Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy with weak currencies,” Draper noted in a statement. Most governments want to control... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
problem in geopolitics, it’s not going to be by begging countries to leave our weakness alone. We have to resolve the weakness. RDT: The information landscape used to be something that was controlled by each country. It was ours. We had a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
“For example,” West explains, “Japan has been a powerhouse in semiconductors because its form of corporate organization is conducive to that kind of technology. By contrast, Japan is weak in biotech. Patterns of innovation and industrial... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
it offends our civil liberties, or be so weak that it can't protect our security? As in the fight against any kind of organized crime, we must find the right balance. The National Commission on Terrorism that I chaired found that the use... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
for the test with speedy release to market that would appeal to investors. The logic is that you need a win. Once you establish a good foundation, you will have the opportunity to expand to what feels morally correct. —Muthanna Al-Mumin (GMP 22, 2017) Because the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
and the exchange of ideas, but will also help catch problems, flaws, and weaknesses before they multiply. Koehn: From the standpoint of organizations, it strikes me that what we have is an opportunity for companies that run a clean shop —... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
think the economy is going to get weaker, we tend to buy companies that do better than others. In a weak economy, when we see potential for a big rebound, we tend to buy cyclicals because those companies tend to do the best in the early... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
health condition, provided the same compassion and support that somebody suffering from cancer has. So really, it's a wholesale change from thinking about mental health as a weakness and as a problem. To thinking not only about it as... View Details