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- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
found that venture capitalists tended to co-invest in deals with other VCs who possessed similar characteristics. This was true regardless of whether the similarities were ability-based or affinity-based. For example, two VCs who graduated from the same undergraduate... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
carefully with his public relations guy. He'd have known exactly who was calling and how well he could trust that person. If they'd been unsure about the caller, they might have released similar information to a more trusted outlet at the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? With little academic attention focused on this question, Harvard Business View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
contributed to the financial turmoil that followed. This performance has come under tremendous scrutiny by lawmakers and regulators, who are debating ways to reform the ratings industry. One prominent suggestion: increased competition. But recent research from Harvard... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard Business View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
two-week spectacle that captures the attention of people around the world. With the Games of the XXX Olympiad off and running in London, three Harvard Business School professors offer their insights. Stephen A. Greyser, Richard P. Chapman... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
hospitals or schools or businesses that are trying to figure out how to incorporate this technology to get advantage out of it. And for them, this often entails a change problem. In Evolve, I explain some of the classic ways to defeat... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
this market at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP) must look beyond just selling products—they must find ways to create social and economic value, according to the editors of a new volume, Business Solutions for the Global Poor. The book grew out of a Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Published since 1979 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Competitiveness Report ranks seventy-five countries and measures the comparative strengths and weaknesses of their economies. At a press conference announcing publication of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
generated rich empirical data that in some cases confirms and in other cases contradicts many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines, says Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, who edited the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Marketing: What Works? Purchase decisions are influenced differently in social networks than in the brick-and-mortar world, says Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta. The key: Marketers should tap into the networking aspect of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, the panel recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
productivity, how many people they see. They have lousy information systems to back them up. And then they have a public policy establishment that more or less continuously deprecates their ideas and squeezes down their income. Not a... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
by truncating her true ranking. We show that in symmetric information environments this result is identical for all priority mechanisms and all linear programming mechanisms introduced in British entry-level medical markets and in public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
prevailing public health system, while operating under the same revenue structure (per capita payments from the Ministry of Health). A highly visible landmark initiative of the Medical School of the Catholic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
through—like Elsie Bailey's faith as a high school principal that inner-city children can learn, and that her teachers can teach them. If the people in charge rely only on themselves as heroes who can rescue any situation, while focusing... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
Harvard Business School professors often travel into the field to conduct business research, but it's a safe bet none have had the experience of Professor Robin Ely. She and coauthor Debra Meyerson of Stanford University took helicopter... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
For Harvard Business School faculty, summer marks the perfect time to catch up on reading for work and pleasure. We asked six faculty what they're looking forward to digging into over the next few months. Jeff Bussgang wo of my books... View Details
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
After a cancer patient's first 30 days in the American medical system, the bills start stacking up—right next to the pile of paperwork explaining benefits. "It's very hard for patients to match these things up," says Dr. Thomas W. Feeley, who recently joined... View Details