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    Myra M. Hart

    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

    Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
    • January 2004
    • Article

    Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Alison Kraft
    The relative ability of different sizes of firm and organisational designs to develop and sustain dynamic capabilities in innovation and create new businesses remains a matter of contention. While Chandler among many others has emphasised the pre-eminent role of large... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Brands and Branding; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Development; Product Launch; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Great Britain
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      Rawi E. Abdelal

      Rawi Abdelal is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School, the Emma Bloomberg Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, and the European Faculty Chair of Harvard Business School’s Global... View Details

      • 28 Apr 2022
      • News

      Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

      • 2001
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness

      By: Michael E. Porter
      Competitiveness has tended to be seen primarily from a federal perspective, and national policies and circumstances surely affect the prosperity of our economy. However, the Clusters of Innovation Initiative was undertaken with the realization that the real work of... View Details
      Keywords: Clusters; Economics; Industry Clusters; Economy; Growth and Development; United States
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        The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

        A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details

          Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments

          Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that ‘sampling bias’—defined as the difference between a startup’s target customer base and the actual sample on which early ‘beta tests’ are conducted—has a systematic and... View Details
          • 11 Mar 2014
          • Other Presentation

          The Looming Challenge of U.S. Competitiveness

          By: Michael E. Porter
          Professor Porter evaluated US competitiveness and its implications for Philadelphia. Host Dr. Mercedes Delgado, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management within the Fox School of Business, is a co-researcher on Professor Porter's work on innovation clusters and... View Details
          Keywords: Competitiveness; U.S. Competitiveness; Competition; Development Economics; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Philadelphia; United States
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            Willis M. Emmons

            WILLIAM (WILLIS) EMMONS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2004.  As Director of the Christensen Center, Emmons oversees programs to... View Details

            Keywords: airline; infrastructure industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; utilities
            • 23 Jul 2001
            • Research & Ideas

            How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

            enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of civilization. View Details
            Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
            • 21 May 2018
            • News

            How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

            • 05 Nov 2019
            • News

            Best Business Books 2019: Strategy

            • Research Summary

            Managing in an Information Age

            By: Lynda M. Applegate
            Lynda M. Applegate's research focuses on the influence of information technology on markets and organizations. Her findings on the evolution of electronic commerce and on the role of information technology as an enabler of flexible and adaptive ... View Details
            • June 2006
            • Case

            Home Equity Protection

            Nearly 70% of households in the United States own their own home and, yet, virtually no household is insured against a crash in housing values. Is there a market for an insurance product, home equity protection, that would provide this protection? Focuses on the... View Details
            Keywords: Housing; Insurance; Product Design; Equity; Insurance Industry
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            • 23 May 2017
            • First Look

            First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

            Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in... View Details
            Keywords: Carmen Nobel
            • November 2003 (Revised February 2004)
            • Case

            Richmond Events

            By: Amy C. Edmondson and Kristin Lieb
            The managers of British business forum planner, Richmond Events, are struggling to expand their conference offerings into new territories. At the same time, they are trying to decide how product managers, who are critical to event success, should be hired, trained,... View Details
            Keywords: Conferences; Innovation and Management; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Conflict Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Service Industry; United Kingdom; Asia
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            • 2013
            • Article

            Industry Equilibrium with Open-Source and Proprietary Firms

            By: Gaston Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde
            We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of open-source and proprietary firms. Two novel aspects of the model are (i) participation in open source arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (ii) open-source and proprietary... View Details
            Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Balance and Stability; Software; Knowledge Management; Supply and Industry; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Cooperation
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            • May 06 2021
            • Tout

            Earn a Certificate of Management Excellence

            • November 2012 (Revised July 2012)
            • Supplement

            Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd (C): Anthony Pierce of John Lewis

            By: Frank V. Cespedes and Alex Godden
            The "Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd" case series focuses on entrepreneurial selling, and is based on an older case study, "Deaver Brown and Cross River Inc." (9-394-042). It concerns two entrepreneurs, Andrew Sullivan and Hope Abasi, who have designed an innovative... View Details
            Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Management; Sales; Marketing; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
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              Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity

              We live in a dynamic economic and commercial world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are... View Details