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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Marketing Muscle

On her first foray into Silicon Valley, Karen Edwards (MBA '90) didn't have much success finding the job she wanted: head of marketing at an Internet company. Told she didn't know enough about technology, Edwards persevered and finally landed a job at View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

notes, "and it was very exciting to be a part of it." In 1999, Marshall decided to do something completely different. The result, VentureThink, is a start-up that aims to create, build, and manage e-commerce businesses. With the budding... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

All in Good Time

picked up steam after a nationwide franchise program launched in 2009. Revenues for that year were $2 million; in 2011, they’re projected to hit $10 million. The company charges employers a percentage of a worker’s hourly rate or salary; franchisees (which now number... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; staffing agencies; parenthood; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services
  • Web

Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds | Baker Library

Help Center Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds How can I create a list of start-up or venture capital backed companies in a particular industry? In Capital IQ : Mouse over menu for Screening and... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

entrepreneurial human capital across several generations. We test this idea by looking at the spatial location of past mines across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

invests significant resources in software such as Java and Linux that IBM does not own in order to integrate many companies' products and services for IBM's customers. Intel invests significant resources in university research (which it does not own) and in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2018
  • Blog Post

WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School

and human resources. Francesca Barrett, an MD/MBA candidate, noted that, "As someone with a strong interest in health care, I’ve never had the chance to marry that with the tech industry. Being able to visit start-ups where I learned... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 30 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success

vendors with trucks, one of the greatest barriers to African economic growth could be mitigated or even overcome. Hence the birth of Lori Systems, Josh's Kenyan-based start-up that uses a centralized electronic platform to connect willing... View Details
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

options should be rethought in many organizations. First, there is the issue of whether options are the best means of promoting shareholders' best interests in established companies. While making an exception for "cash-poor start-up... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

  Publications November 2014 Harvard Business Review Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay Abstract—While existing theory suggests that increased contact between customers and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

"Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire," Olds says. "It didn't make them want to walk on the net." In the next stage of his research, Olds is researching how the social safety net influences the potential labor pool... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

looks to build a mobile technology product development team by executing an "acquisition-hire" (i.e., "acqui-hire") to acquire New York City-based start-up Stamped, a mobile application company launched by former... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

start-up firm in Silicon Valley when one of his employees decided to quit and go work for a direct competitor down the street. "I told him, 'Hey, you can't do that. Didn't we make you sign a non-compete?' "... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

from "real work." But when Google's people analytics team examined the value of managers, applying the same rigorous research methods the company uses in its operations, it proved the skeptics wrong. Mining data from employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Published: January 10, 2011 For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon or Not to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

forthcoming Compensation & Benefits Review The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World By: Landry, Anais Thibault, and A.V. Whillans Abstract—How can workplace rewards... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

for "big teaming": intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of an award-winning "smart city"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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