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- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
didn’t have room to print Murphy’s 10 rules for entrepreneurial success in the magazine. So I’ve posted them here. Take a look and let us know what you think. Did he miss anything? 10 Rules of Successful Entrepreneurship 1. Commit first... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
diversity were important? A: These factors have been hypothesized in the prior literature to affect the probability of civil war. Some findings in the cross-country literature are quite robust, such as the fact that poor countries tend to be at greater View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines By: Karlan, Dean, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Benjamin Roth Abstract—A debt trap occurs when someone takes on a high-interest rate loan and is barely able to pay back the interest, and thus... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
therefore money available, with easy credit historically fueling the fire, to risk on new things and new experiences. And the secondary market, from the flea auction to eBay, is well developed so the consumer does not necessarily lose... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
phenomenon. Specifically, we restricted the comparative advantages of each as follows. Content from iTunes is legally sold at positive prices and downloads are immediate; downloads on p2p are illegal and can take many hours (or even days)... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
Tingle on board, they made great use of their summer and built the Harlem Capital platform, taking that work into their second year at HBS. The risk paid off and by graduation in 2019, they were both able to... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
the subprime lenders—willing to take the risk on riskier borrowers, for a price. Thus far the tale testifies to America's entrepreneurial spirit. New mortgage banks specializing in subprime loans sprang up.... View Details
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
a little in hopefulness if they want to be hired. In marketing, hope takes the form of indulging puffery and exaggeration. The problem is that the temptation to shade from puffery to lying is always present. And the suspicion lurks that... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- Profile
Eric Chavez
Eric Chavez, the son of immigrants who moved from Mexico to find greater opportunity in the United States, “does not take this life for granted.” His parents worked their way up from picking lemons in California to maintaining properties... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
A Stitch in Time (Second Edition) by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, and David Weil (Oxford University Press) Spurred on by advances in information technology, a retailing revolution has been taking place during... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
environmental career that started on the banks of the Rhine River. Merkl grew up in Cologne, Germany in the 1960s—a time when the Rhine was so polluted that anyone even daring to wade into it risked arrest. "It stank, literally," recalls... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
whack, when you can make a high return with very limited risk. My view is that you can target risk versus return. So you can say, I’ll take the very safe 6 percent, I’ll take... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
Exchange Commission-approved NYSE and Nasdaq governance listing standards. The risk now is that boards will become overly focused on regulatory compliance and not perform their broader and more managerial responsibilities adequately. Can... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- Profile
Dan Vallone
be prepared to defend it while remaining open to learning from other perspectives. There’s also a very big thing here, what I call an interaction with the entrepreneurial spirit. There are so many ideas here, so much willingness to take... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
leaders exemplify the kind of intelligent thinking that Holt describes. They experiment and learn. And in a fluid environment, winners are those who know how to take risks but can cut any losses quickly, in... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
annual list of the “10 Surprises” that investors should be thinking about in the year ahead. Taylor Becker (MBA 2025) met Wien as a first-year analyst at Blackstone, the only one of the 100 or so in his cohort to take Wien up on his offer... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
School. I wanted to pursue a joint degree that would help me address the dichotomy of my intended field, where climate investment cannot be an arena for governments alone and where impact involves navigating supply chain risks as much as... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Property), lured by the prospect of exciting careers in a hot market. But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? I don't see risks that you would associate with a bubble.—Stephen... View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
Friedman, managers who believe the hype of a flat world do so at their own risk, says HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. National borders still matter a lot for business strategists. While identifying similarities from one place to the next is essential, effective... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he had learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why did the telecommunications company use a search firm to talk with the candidate rather than View Details