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- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
of management, which Hamel argues clings to time-worn management innovations of the twentieth century to which the founders of new-generation firms were largely not exposed? Hamel, admitting that he does not have all the answers, poses... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
leadership is based on criteria completely unrelated to your ability to lead." Also receiving low management scores across the board: organizations at which the company founder was also the CEO. "We systematically find that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
could include providing updated road maps or allowing a patron to download MP3s before she hops on her next flight. He did not release revenue numbers. Also optimistic about Wi-Fi's future was Sky Dayton, founder of Internet service... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Armarium would need to charge for its one-of-a-kind pieces with retail values that could reach as high as $15,000. The two founders faced significant scaling challenges, from how to establish guardrails around curation of the collection... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407024 St. HOPE Academy: The Expansion Decision Harvard Business School Case 307-080 St. HOPE is faced with a decision concerning whether or not to expand from Sacramento to New York City. While charter... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50433 Harvard Business School Case 515-072 onefinestay Miranda Cresswell, marketing director, and Greg Marsh, founder and CEO of onefinestay, were grappling with branding and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://hbr.org/search/114007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-011 TaKaDu In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Corporation was unable to commit to a structure akin to that of a traditional venture capital partnership. Despite efforts by XTV's founders to model the fund as closely as possible after a traditional venture partnership, the fund was... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
eastern Europe. We tend to forget this sort of entrepreneurialism, somewhat blinded by the light of the start-up culture of the United States and Silicon Valley. Q: Some great but autocratic German entrepreneurs including Alfred Krupp and Werner Siemens View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
acquisition activities, he said. "That's nuts." Steve Hafner, founder and CEO of Kayak.com, an online travel information site, said an alternative to growing your own customers is to secure distribution through partnerships,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
gender gap among companies in Sweden. They excluded family-run companies, because in those cases the CEO was likely to be the founder or a descendent of the founder. And they focused only on executives—comparing women at the top with men... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
date. For further growth, the founder and CEO is contemplating three strategies: further expansion in Spain, international expansion, or the creation of new restaurant concepts. Abridged version of HBS No. 899-080. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Endeavor Entrepreneur Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
lines every week. Based in the United Kingdom, ASOS shipped products to 240 countries and territories, and international sales represented more than 50% of total revenues. But when new CEO Nick Beighton took over from founder Nick... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
School Case 809-098 This case describes how Alex Wolf, the founder of a small architecture and urban planning firm based in Portland, Oregon, decides to offer partnership to two trusted colleagues, and then how strains develop in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
customers, community, and society—not just shareholders. These CEOs operate from deep beliefs and values. Their purpose is to leave a legacy of a great firm. Some were founders but most had arrived in the CEO role much later in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM), and they have equivalent contributions in outcomes like granted patents and entrepreneurial firm starts. These contributions are increasing, up from 10%-15% just a couple of decades ago. And yes, over half of Silicon... View Details
Keywords: by Staff