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  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested. Drawing upon Regulatory Focus Theory, we propose that the gap originates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

risk-averse. b) They can't make tough decisions. Whether or not they are true, these assumptions create significant barriers to success for women entrepreneurs who want to build large enterprises. If true, they might reflect fundamental... View Details
Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart

    Lynda M. Applegate

    Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

    • February 2013
    • Article

    Institutions and Venture Capital

    By: Josh Lerner and Joacim Tag
    We survey the literature on venture capital and institutions and present a case study comparing the development of the venture capital market in the United States and Sweden. Our literature survey underscores that the legal environment, financial market development,... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Organizations; Taxation; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; United States; Sweden
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    • 11 May 2020
    • Op-Ed

    Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

    today’s 12 percent share. When we surveyed a representative sample of the general public on this same question, we found a similar result—they proposed to triple the share of employment-based immigrants. That result held across all... View Details
    Keywords: by William R. Kerr
    • 23 Oct 2020
    • Video

    Entrepreneurship Opportunities in a Post-COVID World: The Future of EdTech

    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Sam Walton: Great From the Start

    "done everything right," yet his reward was exile. Many another great entrepreneur suffered similar setbacks. Many made mistakes for which they had only themselves to blame. Many encountered situations in which their failure to... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
    • May 2011
    • Case

    Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange

    By: Josh Lerner and Keith Chi-ho Wong
    When ChiNext opened in October 2009 as the second tier market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), it aimed to provide Chinese entrepreneurs with equity capital and to facilitate the exits of venture capital firms and other investors which had previously relied on... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Stocks; Financial Markets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; International Finance; Financial Services Industry; China
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    • April 2023
    • Case

    Twitter: The Freedom to Speak Freely and Be Heard

    By: Randolph B. Cohen, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Mel Martin
    In April 2022, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that he would be interested in purchasing the social media site Twitter for $44 billion. With more than 100 million twitter followers, Musk had historically leveraged the site to engage with the customers of his... View Details
    Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Acquisition; Social Media; Power and Influence; Public Relations Industry; Public Relations Industry; Public Relations Industry; United States
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    • 17 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 17

    forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent decades have precipitated an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    “If You’re Not There… You’re Not There”: How Art Market Platforms Induce Status Anxiety to Coerce Participation

    By: James Riley and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan
    This paper, an 18-month ethnographic investigation of international art fairs (IAFs), shows how market platforms can have a coercive effect, inducing sellers (i.e., art galleries) to participate despite ambivalence over their value and anxiety over the process by which... View Details
    Keywords: Market Participation; Status and Position; Competition; Demand and Consumers; Fine Arts Industry
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    • 2 Dec 2021
    • Interview

    How To Make Healthcare Innovation Happen

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger
    Regina Herzlinger has been called “the godmother of consumer-driven healthcare” because of her groundbreaking scholarly articles and books on the subject. As a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School for nearly 50 years, her focus has supported... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention
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    • 2022
    • Book

    Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
    Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity. In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Corruption; Gender; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Middle East; Africa; Latin America; Philippines
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    • 06 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 6

    Publications Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise Authors: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier Publication: Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 349-366 Abstract Two... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 20 Mar 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940

    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora
    • Spring 2024
    • Article

    One Aspirational Future for India’s Higher Education Sector

    By: Tarun Khanna
    Several recent encouraging experiments in Indian higher education suggest a plausible aspirational path toward a more salubrious future than that suggested by an otherwise struggling system. Four case studies of privately conceived and funded universities each exhibit... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; India
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane
    This working paper surveys the business history of the global wind energy turbine industry between the late nineteenth century and the present day. It examines the long-term prominence of firms headquartered in Denmark, the more fluctuating role of U.S.-based firms,... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Renewable Energy; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; United States; Denmark
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    • 06 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

    chain services have the highest wages and intensity of STEM jobs in the U.S. and have experienced rapid growth in employment and wages in the last two decades. However, supply chain industries face unique challenges that may require new policy solutions from the View Details
    • 20 Mar 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

    kicking off a panel discussion at Cyberposium 2000. "But I think it's fair to characterize the incubator space as rather a sleepy one." Until now, that is. Once largely the domain of universities and public economic development... View Details
    Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
    • 25 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 25, 2016

    New York: Springer Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business By: Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau Abstract—This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne