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  • 05 Aug 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

conflicts of interest most effectively), these organizations have taken different paths to build competitive positions that are hard for others to attack. They can force suppliers, consumers, competitors,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

social venture’s revenue strategy, the researchers analyzed a sample of 584 applications to a fellowship competition for nascent social ventures sponsored by Echoing Green, a global nonprofit organization that provides seed-stage funding,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 May 2002
  • Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

account for transactions under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) while reducing transparency and aggressively maximizing earnings and debt. Creative accounting is part of the competition among auditors that has led to lower... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Chaotic Funding Derails Research

years to come. Unpredictability inflicts a heavy cost on scientific progress, whether in domains like stem-cell research or in searching for safe alternative fuels. It damages the United States’ competitive View Details
Keywords: William Sahlman; Science funding; stem cell research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

Most ethical principles are pretty unambiguously good. Honesty, fairness, compassion—sure they have their downsides (being “honest to a fault”), but that’s more a by-product of something good than it is something evil in and of itself. Then there’s loyalty. While... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

A Decade of Change

experience high-impact management positions at 44 nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary, the funding of which is shared between HBS and the participating... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

New Releases

Administration, outlining the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship at HBS and crediting McArthur's support for many of the recent accomplishments in this area. "The School [is now] in an excellent position to lead the field into... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble designing a coherent innovation system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

in the "Basic Law," Hong Kong's post-handover charter, the territory's global position is constitutionally mandated and remains a special administrative region. Professor Ezra Vogel, director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan Mistele, was looking to pivot into high growth and faced several intriguing options. However, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with predicted trade constructed by estimating a time-varying gravity equation similar to Feyrer (2009). We find that economic integration has a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

exploitation tends to drive out exploration, rendering organizations rigid and vulnerable to environmental change. Drawing on the Carnegie School, we propose a model where perturbation moderates the relationship between exploitation and exploration. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Author: Michael C. Jensen Abstract There is confusion between integrity, morality, and ethics. In our much longer paper on the topic (see "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry

Azita Sharif (MBA 2000) is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DSI- Precision Medicine Biobanking & BINDS (Bio-Informatics Network for Discovery Science). Her goal is to positively impact human and public health using... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

great they are as individuals, reap the personal benefits of their position, and deftly blunt competition from potential inter-organizational rivals.” His point is that an age of knowledge sharing facilitated by networks negates the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • November 2024
  • Case

Demond Martin and WellWithAll

By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
This case study chronicles the transformative entrepreneurial path of Demond Martin, co-founder and CEO of WellWithAll, a health and wellness startup. Motivated by a pivotal life experience and deep concern for racial health inequities, Martin transitions from a... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Health; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Management Style; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Relationships; Trust; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Health Industry; United States; Chicago; Boston; Atlanta; North Carolina; District of Columbia
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann

experience—ideally, designing and/or developing technology-intensive products.”  Is there a competitive advantage to pursuing a degree program like this in Boston? “Boston ranked first among 25 U.S. cities in a study conducted by global... View Details