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- 18 Apr 2013
- News
Boston Bombing Puts Short-Term Losses on Salons to Circus
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Professor Kash Rangan: Enlightening
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
to this point? First of all, we need to understand that "hardware is no good if it just sits in the corner," said Salinas, and we should focus on getting teachers ready to use it. Hardware is no good if it just sits View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
entrepreneurs in these countries to build the future. And from an intellectual perspective, emerging markets provide a lab for scholars because everything we know about management needs to be reexamined... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- October 2000 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Garage.com (A)
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind
Silicon Valley's Garage.com matches venture capital and corporate angel investors with high-tech start-ups that are looking for early stage funding. As a Web-based service, Garage.com fields inquiries from entrepreneurs and investors around the world, and is eager to... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Venture Capital; Investment; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Operations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Technological Innovation; Brands and Branding; Information Technology Industry
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Elizabeth Kind. "Garage.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-064, October 2000. (Revised November 2001.)
- August 1995 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Passion for Learning
Describes the challenges confronting a recent HBS graduate who has started a direct-mail toy company. The entrepreneur must evaluate industry conditions in both toys and direct mail, and determine whether he has developed a viable business concept. Presents detailed... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
McGahan, Anita M., Dale Coxe, Israel Yellen Ganot, and Greg Keller. "Passion for Learning." Harvard Business School Case 796-057, August 1995. (Revised July 1997.)
- August 2020
- Article
Workplace Knowledge Flows
By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
We conducted a field experiment in a sales firm to test whether improving knowledge flows between coworkers affects productivity. Our design allows us to compare different management practices and to isolate whether frictions to knowledge transmission primarily reside... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Performance Productivity; Sales; Motivation and Incentives
Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Workplace Knowledge Flows." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 3 (August 2020): 1635–1680.
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often not made clear. We then review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Teaching Note
To Prioritize Money or Time? The P-Mot Exercise (Instructor)
By: Ashley Whillans and Liz Goldenberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 921-012. Working professionals are often in the predicament of needing to make a choice between activities that will grant them more money or more time. Indeed, in large-scale representative panels of working adults, most respondents... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 21 Apr 2008
- News
Tarun Khanna Examines Entrepreneurial Forces Driving China and India
- August 1998 (Revised October 1998)
- Case
Lark International Entertainment Ltd. (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Jennifer Suesse
Two HBS MBA's leave McKinsey and Morgan Stanley to become entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. Together they start up a cinema chain throughout Asia. This case describes the experiences of managing a team in their Wuhan, China cinema. Looks at the challenges of managing growth... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; Leadership Style; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Hong Kong; China; Asia
Hill, Linda A., and Jennifer Suesse. "Lark International Entertainment Ltd. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 499-023, August 1998. (Revised October 1998.)
- 2021
- Book
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
Why Startups Fail explores entrepreneurial failure, examining its predictable patterns, how to avoid them, and how to cope when failure does occur. Part I looks at three common failure patterns for early-stage startups, illustrating each with an anchor case... View Details
Eisenmann, Thomas R. Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success. New York: Currency, 2021.
- February 1997 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
An Entrepreneurial Family
Mark Vigianno is a driven entrepreneur who can't seem to work with subcontractors, many colleagues, and bosses. His wife Katrina gets caught up in Mark's ventures but seems unable to help him. Although ambitious, hard driving, and quality conscious, Mark keeps... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
Barnes, Louis B., and Kacie LaChapelle. "An Entrepreneurial Family." Harvard Business School Case 897-157, February 1997. (Revised November 1997.)
- 27 May 2015
- News
A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 07 Aug 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Financial Accounting
Learn how managers, Wall Street analysts, and entrepreneurs use an understanding of accounting to unlock critical insights from financial statements and drive strategic decision making.
Program Dates: August 7, 2019 - October 2, 2019 View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- Video
Fadi Ghandour
Fadi Ghandour, Founder of Dubai-based courier company Aramex and a leading entrepreneur in the Gulf, speaks about the "youth bulge" in the Arab world, his decision to prioritize educational provision... View Details