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26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

entrepreneurial ventures. For example, he figured out quickly that he could make more money selling ice cream to construction workers if he offered whole containers, not just individual bars. He started earning View Details

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

Summing Up How Transferable is the Google "School of Management"? Responses to this month's column suggest a great deal of respect for what Google's management has been able to achieve, both in terms of a strategy for bringing high-tech services to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder share allocations. In addition we perform some counterfactual calculations that estimate the amount of money "left on the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

But it also details VC's shortcomings: a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies, volatile feast-or-famine funding cycles, the expectation of quick returns, and a dependence on public markets for funds. “While the venture model... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

shortened to thirty-five hours. What has happened? Take France, for example. French productivity is up; some would claim it is now higher than the U.S., just as is productivity in The Netherlands, Belgium, and the former West Germany. For example, Volkswagen's View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

with the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. “We are approaching a cliff,” says Anna Diaz Triola (MBA 2000), vice president of marketing at Summit Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is part of a cohort of small pharma... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Dec 2019
News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

Ejeh. Instead, he grabs his phone, pulls up the Lidya banking app, applies for the cash cushion he needs, and—a day or so later—gets the money in his account and goes about the business of expansion. Since he began borrowing with Lidya in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

30 Oct 2018
News

Paths of Victory

and Alumni Clubs & Associations, the competition has awarded $2,655,000 in prize money to the winners since its inception in 1997. The competition also gives these startups a head start, providing invaluable exposure and access to... View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

"boundaries" that form when organizations grow that present the "potential for clashes and struggle." Bob Brown attributed it to "risk aversion combined with lack of vision, drive, and prescience for the market in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

for everything from market research to packaging. What do you hope the book will do for would-be entrepreneurs? I’d like it to give them confidence to start their ventures with a playbook so that the path is not as lonely or ambiguous.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

04 Mar 2008
News

HBS Blogs

http://www.insearchoftheperfectinvestment.com/index.php (investment vicissitudes, plus a joke; archived since June 2001) MBA 1970E Duncan McDougall, A Fulbright Year in Romania, 2008-2009, http://dcmcd.blogspot.com/ (archived since Sept. 2008) MBA 1972J Andrew Tobias,... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

04 Jun 2025
News

Slice of Life

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

after fees has long been in plain view. And the economic advantages of passive index funds have been touted for over a decade, this being especially true in strong markets. The thesis of this article is quite simple: Responsible pensions and institutional View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

disclose extensive financial information. Thus Koehn and her team had to search high and low to try to piece together Winfrey's business model and understand her company's revenues, costs, and competitive advantage in the crowded, rivalrous View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

23 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55999 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets By: Srinivasan, Suraj, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—Gatekeepers in financial View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2004
News

Luxe Redux

Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

bearers of bad news is mitigated when recipients are made aware of the benevolence of the messenger’s motives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55611 March 2019 Enterprise & Society Oral History and the Business History of Emerging... View Details