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- June 27, 2017
- Article
Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs —and It Affects How Much Funding They Get
By: Dana Kanze, Laura Huang, Mark Conley and E. Tory Higgins
Kanze, Dana, Laura Huang, Mark Conley, and E. Tory Higgins. "Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs —and It Affects How Much Funding They Get." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 27, 2017).
- September 2015
- Book Review
Review of Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country, by Andrew B. Arnold
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Review of Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country, by Andrew B. Arnold." Enterprise & Society 16, no. 3 (September 2015): 738–740.
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
average driver out of their preferred shift is as bad as cutting their weekly earnings by more than 5 percent. For the California drivers that we study, the ability to start or stop working at any moment and the flexibility to change... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
seems likely that Brazil will work with Canada to arrive at mutually agreeable financing packages to be used by each country. HBS professors Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro recently co-wrote a business case... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
approaches work? I think the answer will be a hybrid model, with different options for different viewers. What’s next in media? “The continued rise of on-demand consumption, as exemplified by the Netflixes and Spotifys of the world, which... View Details
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
Working PapersNone available this week Cases & Course MaterialsThe Company Sale Process Author:William E. Fruhan Jr. Harvard Business School Note 206-108 Lays out the steps, timeline, and process by which a company is sold.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2007
- Comment
Comments on "How to Investigate the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Development, and Use the Results to Guide Policy," by Theodore H. Moran
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. Comments on "How to Investigate the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Development, and Use the Results to Guide Policy," by Theodore H. Moran. Brookings Trade Forum (2007): 40–53.
- Book Review
Review of The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal: The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism, by Paul D. Moreno
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Review of The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal: The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism, by Paul D. Moreno." Economic History Review 67, no. 4 (November 2014): 1186–1187.
- 26 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing
products—as less credible and less trustworthy, according to research by recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate Alessia Vettese. “People used to watch celebrities on the red carpet talking about what they were wearing, or they would... View Details
- 2023
- Book Review
Review of 'Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy' by Lilliana Mason and Nathan P. Kalmoe (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
By: Laura Jakli
Jakli, Laura. "Review of 'Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy' by Lilliana Mason and Nathan P. Kalmoe (University of Chicago Press, 2022)." Public Opinion Quarterly 87, no. 1 (2023): 235–238.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Price Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand Functions with Random Coefficients
In this paper, we postulate a general class of price competition models with Mixed Multinomial Logit demand functions under affine cost functions. We first characterize the equilibrium behavior of this class of models in the case where each product in the market is... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Income Characteristics; Price; Product Marketing; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Segmentation
Allon, Gad, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret Pierson. "Price Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand Functions with Random Coefficients." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-030, October 2011.
- 08 Jan 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
are presently clustered in Eastern and Central Europe. But it is Slovakia—with its 19 percent flat rate—that has captured the world's attention of late, says HBS professor Laura Alfaro. Why? What are the goals and complexities of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
lifetime. HBS colleagues Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson expressed some of the same thoughts in a book they coauthored titled Just Enough, a personal determination made through “the art of complex... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Research Summary
Enduring Success
Harvard Business School graduates have achieved many different kinds of success as leaders of businesses, as entrepreneurs and in their public and private lives. After authoring or co-authoring 150 cases, serving on many corporate and non- profit boards, Howard... View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
of all, the studies show. The findings are detailed in the paper Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men, published in the March 2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Our paper provides... View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way
Harvard Business School faculty on how to get out of your own way. A Good Place to Start Reflecting on Work Improves Job PerformanceResearch by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2015
- News
Gender, looks hold sway in venture capital funding
- 04 Feb 2020
- News