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- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
embarking on the founder’s journey takes you on an intense emotional rollercoaster,” says Mulcahy. “You have to be ready and have to reflect and design your own way to deal with a constant level of pressure. These last years, with the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
several of the key issues that were discussed over the next two days. Sachs stressed that "Africa's development challenge is the world's greatest economic challenge." After touching on some of the region's persistent problems - AIDS and malaria, View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
product is not just the physical product; it’s the people who work at the hotels. You started out in real estate. Did you ever think you’d be in this business? Yes, and I like the real estate intensity of what I do. We have billions of... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618028 Harvard Business School Case 618-019 Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning (A) Managers make predictions all the time: How fast will my markets grow? How much inventory do I need? How... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
meeting the founding teams. We find that the predictability of venture outcomes varies with the intensity of research and development (R&D) in the sector. In R&D-intensive sectors, such as life sciences, the ideas that elicit more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
destination firm in 10% of our sample, which is significantly higher than in a matched sample. Analyst-manager "co-migration" is significantly stronger when both firms are within the same industry. Analysts who move with managers to the destination firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Stearns, which was on the brink of collapse. Yet as the global economy faced slower growth stemming from the U.S. mortgage crisis, policy makers were caught in an intense debate over what the 'right' solution would be, and the implication... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
of—engineers.” Louneva, who plans to head to Silicon Valley after graduation, took a computer science course at Harvard College. For others not ready to commit to a full semester, the club offers an always sold-out, two-day intensive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
that the business of oil exploration is more capital intensive than people intensive. "But those we do have are given a great deal of financial responsibility." James Hackett of Ocean Energy does see a few advantages for smaller companies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
understanding, especially of my peers,” Johnson says of the experience, which in the end was a resounding success. In the case, Johnson privately wonders if she can transition from the intensity and engagement of “defending freedom” to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
revisiting the issue of what the company should be. Becoming a successful solar cell manufacturer would potentially be much more lucrative than becoming a successful equipment supplier. But, the latter was much less capital intensive and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
and in sync with the larger interests of the nation— Nancy Koehn Nancy Koehn: As a historian, I would note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through intense questioning about the system and the conduct of its... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
possible to become comfortable sharing all of yourself with another human being – I am grateful that James stuck around as I figured it out. James is kind, patient, intensely optimistic and makes every situation more fun than it would be... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
sort of intense than it would be otherwise. And through the last few years, this is really something I didn't understand before I started working on climate full time, as I started building Joro a couple years ago—but climate justice and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
intensive negotiations later, Andreessen Horowitz won the deal, offering to invest $100 million at a much higher valuation. Six years later, Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion. I learned a lot from that opportunity and the people... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
"bridging the valley of death" (i.e., helping young, innovative companies finance technically risky and very capital intensive development and commercialization programs). The case focuses on two DOE programs in particular, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
grounded. How are you managing the grind? You know what? I’m energized by it. It’s not just the hours and travel, it’s the pace and intensity of what we’re doing. There’s so much passion and energy in this company and among our customers... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion relative to a monopoly platform when the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
unexplored dimension. Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units Authors:I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker. Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
and (ii) complete stability in the dispersion of attention across sites and in the intensity of attention within sites. We illustrate how this finding is difficult to reconcile with standard models of optimal attention allocation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne