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    Shikhar Ghosh

    Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in... View Details

    • November 2011 (Revised May 2012)
    • Case

    SecondMarket—Providing Liquidity for Shareholders of Privately Held iContact

    By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda and James McQuade
    In 2011, SecondMarket was an online platform that facilitated secondary transactions of illiquid assets, including private company stock. This case explores reasons for the decline in small-cap IPOs in the United States from the 1990s to the 2000s and how the emergence... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 2008
    • Simulation

    Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery

    By: Willy C. Shih and Clayton Christensen
    This online simulation allows students to play the role of a business unit manager at Back Bay Battery Company who faces the dilemma of balancing a portfolio of investment strategies across products in the rechargeable battery space. Players have to manage R&D... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Investment; Product Development; Research and Development; Battery Industry
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    • 20 Mar 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

    Successful businessmen told a roomful of students that ultimately, the world outside the classroom will be their best teacher in entrepreneurship. "If you are taking an entrepreneurship class, you want... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Article

    Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization

    By: Shoshana Zuboff
    This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, 'surveillance capitalism,' and considers its implications for 'information civilization.' The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the... View Details
    Keywords: Surveillance Capitalism; Big Data; Google; Information Society; Privacy; Internet Of Everything; Rights; Economic Systems; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics
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    • November 2008
    • Journal Article

    Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Crises

    By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin Forbes
    This paper examines how financial constraints and product market exposures determine the response of multinational and local firms to sharp depreciations. U.S. multinational affiliates increase sales, assets, and investment significantly more than local firms during,... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Currency; Private Equity; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; United States
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    • 04 Feb 2009
    • News

    Academy of International Business Fellow

    • July–August 2024
    • Article

    Navigating the Future of Online Advertising with WEB3

    By: Frank V. Cespedes and Ben Plomion
    or years, digital ad spend was a steadily growing portion of marketing budgets. But online advertising faces challenges that mean a transformative shift in digital marketing. Meanwhile, so-called “Web3” has emerged as a medium that can change ad spend and how personal... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Advertising; Digital Marketing
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      William A. Sahlman

      William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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      • 11 Mar 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

      book excerpt Firms As Actors From Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By Geoffrey Jones Entrepreneurs and firms have been important actors in the... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

        The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention

        Attention is a necessary ingredient for effective advertising. The market for consumer attention (or “eyeballs”) has become so competitive that attention can be regarded as a currency. The rising cost of this ingredient in the marketplace is causing marketers to... View Details

        • 26 Apr 2023
        • In Practice

        Is AI Coming for Your Job?

        irrelevant construct when considering how to harness generative AI’s capabilities. Processes ranging from negotiating contracts with vendors to developing marketing messages will be redesigned from the ground up View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
        • 30 Oct 2019
        • Video

        Where are Students Heading for Field Global Immersions?

        • October 2012 (Revised February 2019)
        • Case

        Whaling Ventures

        By: Tom Nicholas and Jonas Peter Akins
        Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there were about 900 whaling ships in the world and 700 of these were American. Rates of return on capital were high compared to benchmark investments, at... View Details
        Keywords: Whaling; Organization Design; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Finance; Organizational Design; Industry Growth; History; United States
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          Sanjay Lalbhai

          Keywords: Textiles
          • Web

          Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment

          Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment Initiative Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets View Details
          • November 2000
          • Exercise

          Atlantis-Biovent Negotiation: Confidential Instructions for Biovent

          By: Michael A. Wheeler
          This two-party exercise illustrates bidding strategy in the context of settling a large insurance claim. Specifically, the claimant (Biovent) and the insurer (Atlantis) are asked to submit confidential offers to a dispute resolution website that will determine whether... View Details
          Keywords: Insurance; Bids and Bidding; Emerging Markets; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict of Interests; Strategy; Web Sites
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          • 30 Dec 2010
          • News

          2010 Carnegie Mellon-William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award

          • Research Summary

          Overview

          Professor Schreger studies international finance and macroeconomics, with an emphasis on sovereign debt. Following a series of sovereign debt crises in the 1980s and 1990s, which caused defaults among emerging markets governments on their foreign currency obligations,... View Details
          • 22 Jul 2010
          • News

          A Bold New Model for Sustainable Cities