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  • 05 Aug 2011
  • News

Failure is not an option. It's a necessity.

  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

pharmaceutical companies in 1984, American Home Products ranked first in sales and twenty-eighth in R&D expenditures as a percentage of sales.23 As the historian Williams Haynes noted, by the end of the... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the Harvard framework (Figure 11.1), which was developed by William Sahlman 1 and Howard Stevenson 2 is described in Chapter 12. Good judgement comes from experience and... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

relationship between green business and governments. The struggles of entrepreneurial pioneers have rarely proved profitable, as they were forced to compete with conventional businesses that ignored negative environmental externalities and were often subsidized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

New Ventures, developed and taught by Professor Frank L. Tucker and doctoral candidate Patrick R. Liles (MBA '64, DBA '70). At about the same time, then Associate Professor Howard Stevenson and then Lecturer View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

  PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

patents granted by the USPTO in 2001-2003. We show that examiner citations account for 63% of all citations on the average patent and that 40% of patents have all citations added by examiners. We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high quality incumbent's most profitable customers who are the most attracted by superior quality alternatives. Our results appear to have long-run implications whereby... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509024 Breaking through Action Plan Harvard Business School Exercise 409-059 The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on the book, Breaking Through: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

benefits are at most partially realized. The same institutions and practices that facilitate efficient ad placement can also facilitate fraud. The networks that should be serving advertisers have decidedly mixed incentives, such as cost savings from cutting corners,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab in the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches the course "Risks, Opportunities and... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
    • August 1990
    • Case

    NASA After Challenger: Restoring an Image

    By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
    In the days following the loss of the space shuttle Challenger and its crew in January of 1986, NASA officials were unwilling to communicate with the media or the public. A siege mentality took hold, and the press and public responded with intense criticism and... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Strategy; Policy; Business and Community Relations; Situation or Environment; Conflict Management
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    • November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    NovoCure Ltd.

    By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
    Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry
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    • 20 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 20

    by Reebok, an upstart competitor. Knight closeted himself in his office, faced the wall, and sat there, weak and sick and devastated for hours. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810077-PDF-ENG Moral Decision-Making:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 23

      PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Strategy - Doctoral

    Edward McFowland III Cynthia A. Montgomery John C. Mulliken Kyle R. Myers Frank Nagle Seth Neel Felix Oberholzer-Gee Joseph Pacelli Lynn S. Paine Elisabeth C. Paulson Sophus A. Reinert Meg Rithmire Jan W.... View Details
    • 15 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: November 15

    institutionalize empathy as part of its delivery of care. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611015-PDF-ENG GoodGuide George Serafeim, Robert G. Eccles, and Tiffany A. ClayHarvard Business School Case 112-031... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Jan 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: January 14

    help-friendly organization has to be actively nurtured, however, because helpfulness among colleagues does not arise automatically: competition, pride, or distrust may get in the way. The trickiness of this management challenge-to increase a discretionary behavior that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • December 2007 (Revised September 2009)
    • Case

    Wall Street's First Panic (A)

    By: David A. Moss and Cole Bolton
    In the early 1790s, a flood of newly issued public and private securities sparked an investment boom in the nascent United States. In New York, the bustling commercial district along Wall Street emerged as the center of the city's securities trade. One of the many... View Details
    Keywords: History; Financial Instruments; Auctions; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
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    Publications - Faculty & Research

    Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation By: Leonardo D’Amico, Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, William Kerr and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity... View Details