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04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

toward entrepreneurship. Venture capital has been driven from the start by the pull of outsized returns through a skewed distribution of payoffs—a faith in low-probability but substantial financial rewards that rarely materialize. Whether the gamble is a whaling voyage... View Details

16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption

actually end up building a business that is not as robust because you were building the ship as you were sailing it. Morrell: We’ll explore that idea in the next episode: What can Silicon Valley learn from frontier markets—in Indonesia,... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act

1935-36 in Alumni Notes Summer 1942 William H. Lipsitt, M.B.A. 1939, Lieutenant (jg) in the Supply Corps of the Navy, arrived safely "somewhere in Australia" after sailing for two months with four other officers in a small, open boat... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

enabled ships to sail the open sea rather than hug the coast. To solve that problem, governments responded by enacting laws of the sea. It then became clear to me that it was almost impossible to understand the Internet by thinking of it... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

hit," notes Joe O'Donnell, a former varsity catcher at Harvard College and now chairman and CEO of Boston Concessions Group, Inc. "At the time, the ball just barely cleared the fence, but 25 years later you remember it sailing out of the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

framing price appropriately.” Alternatively, currently popular strategic doctrine has many executives sailing off, like Ahab or Sinbad, in search of "blue oceans"—market spaces where allegedly no one else is fishing. Avoiding... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

developed around the channel sales program would need to be addressed. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/netapp/an/511058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-403 Intellectual Property Strategy at North Technology Group-Sailing Downwind North View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest

deck of the Tai Ping Yang as the freighter sailed out of New York Harbor bound for Shanghai. He was joined in what he would later call an “impractical” and “romantic” adventure by Gene Lamb, a veteran explorer who carried the symbolic... View Details

Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure

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