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- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
that the ISS has been hit by tiny bits of exploded satellites, resulting in dents the size of bb-gun pellets. "The good news is that if it's large, we can maneuver around it, and if it's small, it doesn't really matter. It's the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation as a process of judging an entrepreneur, or an idea, or... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
with higher frequencies of transactions or larger transaction sizes to be viable. We came up with the idea for cleverlayover when we booked our own flights for the holiday season and realized so many inefficiencies existed in flight... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
on supplying 580 multifamily affordable-housing units for low- and moderate-income residents of Boston. But finding a factory site in the city proved impossible, and the deal died. Searches in Providence, Rhode Island, and Hartford,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
In recent conversations with US executives doing business in China, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua heard about a new trend. In an East Asian version of cutting deals on the golf course, Chinese executives often... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
Pujals included an eating space in his store and experimented with the dining area's size and décor. Ultimately, he discovered that a small, spartan dining room was good enough. Pujals also found it was usually the children's idea to... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
entrepreneurs everywhere. Sarah Jane Gilbert: How did you first become interested in studying growth in newly founded firms and young organizations? Mukti Khaire: Only one out of every ten newly founded firms in the United States grows to a View Details
- Profile
Inessa Lurye
she says. "But my background in public policy is very useful. Maxwell has a strong sense of mission, which is integral to the kind of organization I wanted to join." Many useful lessons from HBS In her current role, Inessa works a great View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
enforcement, and intelligence—that had never been brought in a systematic way to the business world. We all make high-stakes decisions that can punctuate the course of our lives—who to hire, who to work for, who to vote for, which deal to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Bloomberg during an unparalleled career as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and three-term mayor of New York City. “I’ve always believed a good deal is where both parties walk away thinking that they didn’t get everything they want, but... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
concept proved successful—nonprofits and for-profit social or environmental impact companies did benefit from access to loans—but the model did not. SITAWI did not see the necessary volume in deals to be sustainable as a lender. So... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
targeting efforts. The First Cut Customer attrition is a widespread problem that affects firms in a variety of industries. For example, US credit card providers often deal with annual churn rates of about 20 percent, and mobile phone... View Details
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
most sensitive and talented prospects away? Will work groups be broken into increasingly smaller sizes, typical of the philosophy on which Nucor Steel was built—when a plant reaches a size of roughly two hundred employees, it's time to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
in Teaching Hospitals By: Huckman, Robert S., Hummy Song, and Jason R. Barro Abstract—We consider the impact of cohort turnover-the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
Pick up most business magazines these days and you'll probably find an article on some venture capital transaction involving millions of dollars. From HBS Associate Professor Benjamin Esty's perspective, however, these deals are small... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
partnerships are key for BaubleBar now, as were the pop up stores the past couple years. Anthropologie now carries BaubleBar pieces, and the partnership is off to a great start given the customer fit. Other deals are in the works, and the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
second office at Manhattan’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza. She’d just finished a breakfast meeting with advertising clients and was preparing to return to CNBC’s Fort Lee, New Jersey, headquarters when the first plane struck the World Trade Center. “In retrospect, none of us... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
therefore establish a "relationship" that allows them to maintain contact with their customers over the long term. Recognizing this new reality and dealing with it proactively is the single most important dimension of enterprise... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
place.” None of it helps clean up a workplace mess. ADVERSITY TOOLKIT Managers can soup up resilience in themselves as well as their teams by making a shift in how they size up a challenge. Rather than dwelling on their misfortune,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman