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07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

of whether to launch a start-up with a classmate or accept a cushy offer from a top-tier consulting firm. Next, they look at Barry Nalls, who describes lessons learned from starting his own telecommunications start-up, MASERGY, after... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

17 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

then collected data from 12 other multiunit enterprises. In this article, they discuss the unique problems that such corporations face, describe how managers tackle those challenges, and offer lessons that will help all types of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

value in our business?” You Might Also Like: What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment The Critical Computer Science Principles Every... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

lessons in the specific way that stock splits helped maintain high prices. While the institutional irregularity is unusual to Japan, a more general principle that emerges is that firms will try to restrict their investors from trading. A... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

decisions that come before the board," Kaufman says. "One lesson from the recent global financial crisis was that some financial institution boards had few directors who really understood the workings of—and risks inherent... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Facebook. Enron's Lessons for Managers Published: July 12, 2004 Like the Challenger space shuttle disaster was a learning experience for engineers, so too is the Enron crash for managers, says Harvard Business School professor Malcolm S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

book was actually in the works for almost three years before COVID. Having been deeply involved in the issues of virtual work and global work, I was convinced that people needed an action guide that they could use as part of a team, or even as an individual, to really... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

diversity as important capture benefits from it. While those that don’t, don’t. The researchers outline three main reasons why opinions about the value of diversity matter so much to the actual value it brings. And these may provide View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

yield lessons for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 A Welfarist Role for... View Details

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

interpretation by providing evidence against alternative mechanisms, such as income effects, human capital accumulation, and trade-induced changes in inequality. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54797 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

and nonprofit organizations. Barrett discussed her new HBS working paper, published with Professor James Austin and Sheila McCarthy, on "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative." Diana... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

experts in the health care field, to provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems. Bill George Professor of Management Practice, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, and author of 7 View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

has more questions than answers. "I don't know what my overall conclusion will be yet, but I would like to draw some lessons from this eventually—either determine that these interventions are a good idea, and here is what can be done... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

Can it be corrected, and does it matter if it can't? Car Trouble Every novice driver is instructed to beware of "blind spots" in which overtaking cars advance unseen. It's a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. "For... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

different light, present ideas and data in novel ways so as to enhance understanding and spark new branches of discussion, and revisit basic facts and assumptions when the group appears to reach an impasse. Finally, after a decision process ends, leaders should try to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55235 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 27

costing (TDABC). Here, the authors describe the implementation experiment, share lessons learned across the care continuum, and report how TDABC has actively engaged health care providers in costing activities and care redesign.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

researched for this book reveal considerable diversity in the types of businesses and social sector organizations involved and in their forms of collaboration. Each of the alliances that we visit in the subsequent chapters has distinctive characteristics, yet their... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

learned today and prepare for tomorrow. The Rapid Eye Movement (REM) phase of sleep appears to be dedicated to the former function, shaping the day’s barrage of stimuli and events into memories and lessons, and connecting those memories and View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

Professor of Marketing and co-chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. About the Author Danielle Kost is a senior editor at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: PeopleImages] Related Reading The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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