Reaching Your Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

enabling HBS to realize its full potential as a developer of leaders who make a difference in the world. The more the School supports and engages in social enterprise research, course development, student activities, and alumni... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

Q: How did you come to see charismatic leadership as a potential double-edged sword? What observations led to your decision to investigate this topic in depth? A: As we conducted our interviews with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

business unit managers' attention toward longer-term activities. Non-financial measures similarly direct managerial attention toward longer-term activities, although not to the same degree as accounting return measures. We conclude that accounting return measures can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

isolation is of great interest, we believe that the analysis of interactions between business models can highlight important hidden insights. In this paper, for example, we show that contrary to the popular view, p2p and iTunes can View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

It's easy to come up with a recipe for disaster when the subject is negotiation. As in chess, once you sit down at the table every move counts. So many factors compete to undermine an optimal settlement: the emotions of both participants; the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

years during the crisis and subsequent recovery. In addition, collateral owned by small businesses lost value during the financial crisis, potentially making small business borrowers less creditworthy today—in fact, small business credit... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

billion for SpaceX) from NASA. One can only imagine the pressure under which developers were working at Boeing. The result? A failure to reach its destination, the International Space Station. While the cause is under investigation, early... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

investment deals and 2.3 percent of dollars among the investors surveyed went to women-owned firms, the Center discovered. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, an authority on entrepreneurship—especially the founding of high potential new... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and the September 11th Fund. We asked Wei-Skillern to discuss the book and its practical applications for business leaders. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you and your coauthors write this book?... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

lessons in your book for managers in industries outside biotech? A: While there is no one right answer for all companies, a few basic things might be helpful. One is rethinking alliances and the strategic purpose. As I argue in the book,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

for your acquisition, find and evaluate the right prospects, avoid the pitfalls that could derail your search, understand why a "dull" business might be the best investment, negotiate a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

recession, it's essential to get a clear read on existing core customers, including those who are most loyal to the brand and those who are most profitable, rather than fritter away research resources on potential or peripheral consumers.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

heightened consumer awareness and expectations make this appear not to be the case.” Global food safety standards are lacking Unsafe food, such as fruits and vegetables contaminated with feces, clearly creates a huge public health risk, with the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

empower teams who are closer to the customer and unlock the full potential of organizations. While born in the software world, the approach is viewed as transformative in both software and hardware across sectors, including financial... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

yourself,” says Arthur C. Brooks, Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow. “You're not going to be a good entrepreneur unless you see that your life is your enterprise; your life is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

The third fundamental is treating every venture as an experiment: Don't put all your money on the table at once. First, try to get some information, see what you can learn, and then decide whether to go on. We try to get students to think... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

is changing at an astounding pace in this region. Although tempting, the US response should be less focused on addressing the "current" state of affairs and more attuned to the various potential trajectories of change. For... View Details

Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

Every firm has two strategies, we learn early on in the pages of One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making. "Explicit" strategy is the one you read about in your company's planning memos and PowerPoint slides.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

buy, how we talk, and even how we feel—and use that to make predictions about how we’ll act next. As the field of machine learning (ML) has become increasingly mainstream, says Harvard Business School doctoral student Mike Teodorescu, it has evolved into the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

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