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- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
funds to hold investments longer than planned. To ensure smooth exits, many venture capitalists have redirected their time from deal-making to shoring up portfolio companies. Given these conditions, Gompers says that startup founders... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611069-PDF-ENG Strengths Become Weaknesses: Cognitive Biases in Founder Decision-Making Noam Wasserman and Kyle AndersonHarvard Business School Note 811-068 This note combines vignettes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
their point of view. It's not unlike what goes on in Congress. It boils down to a set of beliefs. I prefer a more balanced view of the role of the corporation in society. If the only reason a corporation exists is to make money for its View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
School Case 811-064 Aardvark is an online social search service that allows users to pose questions and receive answers from other users in their extended social network. The case explores the process that Aardvark's founders used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
culture of making excuses for performance shortfalls. These issues not only plagued Mekong, but also the portfolio companies that they took positions in. The case recounts how the founder and managing partner of Mekong undertook a process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
roots to the present day, and examines the growth of Whole Foods Market in the context of the broader growth of the organic industry. Also investigates John Mackey's role as a founder and leader of the largest natural-foods retailer in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
founder and CEO of Ribbon Home, had to decide on the next steps for the company. Ribbon had introduced a program that backs consumers with cash offers without creating a loan structure in order to help them compete with iBuyers, such as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
service firm, this compensation model is only used in Shang's practice. The founder and CEO, Chenyao Wu, has his own version of an "A-B-C-D Model," and discussions are taking place about what the firm should be doing about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311061-PDF-ENG Go Mobile: The Phirbol Franchise Rajiv Lal and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 510-020 To grow Phirbol, a telecom retail franchise chain in Delhi, India's underdeveloped markets, its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
in the office together.” "Just how large an organization can get while still being managed remotely in an effective way is a question." I assume that Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, which powers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
founder of the Victors & Spoils ad agency in Colorado, who noted that when his agency sold its majority stake to global communications firm Havas in 2012, he was faced with trying to innovate within a larger, more bureaucratic... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
Dalton. "They actually want to learn. I look at how hungry they are and how relevant they are. Look for the Desh Deshpandes," he told the audience of MBAs, referring to the founder of Cascade Communications and Sycamore... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a veteran of doing battle with much larger Microsoft, has some words of wisdom on competing against a market giant: "If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, don't play chess." Glaser, president and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
"You'll make all your money not on the obvious, but on the patterns that form," he told his listeners. One question every company founder must answer honestly to himself or herself, he said, is whether the company is a good... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Afrezza ever realize the potential that Alfred Mann, the late founder and former CEO, saw in the novel treatment? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-419 Becton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
global organization to working within the Indian bureaucracy. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712412-PDF-ENG Chairman Zhang and Broad Group: Growth Dilemmas Christopher Marquis, Nancy Hua Dai, and Lynn YinHarvard Business School Case 412-095... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Investment This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
future, he welcomed it. He took his company public the year the show premiered, and the IPO's success was so great it was almost embarrassing. Unlike Walton and Revson, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the founder of IBM, and Henry Ford were in... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
specialization. Consider one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin. His experience defines what it means to transition from outsider to insider. He came to this country at age six because his parents were trying to escape the oppression... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
coauthors are Walter Swap, professor of psychology emeritus and former chairman of the Psychology Department at Tufts University, and Gavin Barton, principal and founder of GB Performance Consulting. book excerpt Bank Of America's... View Details