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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
entrepreneurs and investors who have agreed to maintain confidentiality of all submissions. We have asked them to treat your work product with the same care and respect for confidentiality. We also ask them to remove themselves from... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
spend more than $800 billion annually on those efforts. Sales compensation plans are at the center of all this activity, the primary tool managers use to motivate and incentivize salespeople. Sales reps feed on two forms of compensation:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Launch Lab/Capstone 2 - Course Catalog
large corporations and is a key technique for aspiring product managers. In the second week, teams develop an “Investor Pitch” for a business model that surrounds the new product/service concept they are working on. At the end of this... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Ready for Takeoff: Web Portal Enters Second Phase
After two years of building its readership, honing its mission, and crafting fresh, insightful content, HBS Working Knowledge is poised for the next stage of its development. "It's an exciting time. We launched the original product with... View Details
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May Lam
found it difficult to relax and simply enjoy the journey. Instead, I lived for the future, meticulously planning and relentlessly driving toward my goal. To me, the end product was the crowning jewel of any... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
production of Army trucks from major car companies including Ford and General Motors. He also boosted rubber supply through a program of higher production and greater citizen conservation. In 1942, Doriot... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
were not realized. Four years later, another company working on the same technology went public to great acclaim and fanfare. The firm? Netscape Communications, under the leadership of Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. 2 Because its new View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
"fallacies" that sometimes enter into discussions of art in relation to money. This, in turn, leads us to propose a framework to support more productive discussion and to describe a direction for management research that might... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
Speaking of Beijing, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have recently garnered some negative headlines for concessions they made to do business in China. As companies plan their marketing campaigns for the Summer Olympics there, what do... View Details
- Profile
Michelle Giguere
mutual. After completing a nine-month Retail Manager Program of rotations in San Francisco, Michelle acquired merchandising responsibilities for menswear, infant clothing, and ultimately, "the entire toddler boys and girls product... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business Levitt's work sparked debate on the merits of standardized versus localized advertising campaigns. But what are the economics of firms engaged in the production of... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
match the cash flows of their business with their repayment obligations. If you are a tailor and you’re switching from sewing by hand to using a sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and make sure your customers are going to like the View Details
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
weeks later Surette was connected with TB12, a brand new company at the time, through a fellow HBS alum. He joined the company as a freelance consultant to help establish the business plan and grow the impact of TB12 over time, including... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
the extent of change that you need to make in the next 2 years?" The answer surprised them. They knew that innovation was important, but 65 percent of the CEOs said they were planning significant change over the next 2 years, and... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
living in San Francisco working at a data science startup as a product manager. I have always gravitated toward technology and science throughout my life, and machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science were fascinating as... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
living in San Francisco working at a data science startup as a product manager. I have always gravitated toward technology and science throughout my life, and machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science were fascinating as... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
the experience helped him "develop the ability to learn from mistakes, heal a bruised ego, and willingly accept responsibility." After graduating from college with a degree in economics, Kemp canceled his plans to travel the world when... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details