Market Power - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

Gaurav Goel: "Analytics is a powerful weapon but we need prudent processes for data capture that ensure a consistent quality of data." The tone of responses suggested that there was little question that the analytics of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Apr 2000
News

Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

which panelists discussed the integration of financial markets and collaboration among different players in technology sectors as evidence of the power of globalization. Attendees could then choose one of... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Sep 2015
News

Case Study: Golden Ticket

$250,000 seed-funding round. Cofounder and consultant Jen Rottenberg (MBA 1996) estimates that the high-school athletics market alone is worth $2 billion in annual transactions. And the market hasn’t proved... View Details

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

continental perspective. My goal is not to be elusive but to avoid restricting the strategies to a particular geographic scale. Particularly with large countries, the logic of the strategies can apply to intranational as well as international regions. Oil companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

19 Jan 2017
News

Finding Purpose in Profit

Photos by Scott Clark Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) has an easy laugh. It erupts when the opera-trained singer and accomplished martial artist is asked whether hitting a high C helps power her fist through a stack of boards. “I... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

01 Sep 2009
News

Over the Top

power is precisely what caused the short-term fixation that led to the current financial crisis. As stockholder power increased over the last twenty years, our stock markets... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

In 2020, our faculty published 14 books that dive into their research and pull from their professional experiences on topics including the future of capitalism, managing time, how AI is transforming work, the power of experiments, a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

How to Write a Great Business Plan

about people revolve around three issues: What do they know? Whom do they know? and How well are they known? As for opportunity, the plan should focus on two questions: Is the market for the venture's product or service large or rapidly... View Details

Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman

Portrait Project

Smriti Jayaraman

arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not science fiction but a speck... View Details

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Justine Lelchuk

After studying finance, marketing and Mandarin – "China is the future," she believes – Justine Lelchuk had three clear goals for her first post-graduation job. "First, I had to travel. I didn't want to stay behind a desk. I... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Ideas: Books

Bananas and Business by Marcelo Bucheli (New York University Press) Based on research in the archives of the United Fruit Company in Colombia, Bucheli, a Newcomen Fellow in Business History at HBS, disproves the idea that the firm was always a View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Kayode Ogunro

power of private enterprise to bring positive change to Africa. "VCPE seemed like a pretty efficient way to finance growth," says Kayode. An e-mail exchange with Professor Lerner evolved into a guided thesis project on foreign... View Details

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

by venture groups in the upcoming years, as well as an imposition of tougher terms on venture groups by the institutions who are their primary sources of capital. At the same time, there have been some fundamental changes happening in the venture capital View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

becoming more competitive and moving up. "We can't expect government to be on the front line," he stated. "We have to step up and demonstrate the power of the market system."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

March 2012
Article

The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras

By: Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas

New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high technological, market, and competitive uncertainty. In this paper we explore how a firm's conceptualization of products in this context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Transformation; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Product; Values and Beliefs; Mathematical Methods; Power and Influence; Behavior; Experience and Expertise; Design; Market Entry and Exit; Employment Industry; Computer Industry

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

MBA 2009 | Funding Solar’s Future "Altogether, Double Time has financed 36 solar energy projects, which collectively produce roughly 10% of North Carolina’s solar power and power around 30,000 homes in the... View Details

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

Filling the Gap: Underserved Markets in the Black Community Use these resources to validate the need underlying your business idea. Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu to schedule a consultation with a Baker librarian. ... View Details

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Paul Luning

No stranger to entrepreneurship, Paul Luning launched one Internet startup in high school and helped grow two more while at Rice: an online marketing firm and a wireless hardware company. But a semester in Australia broadened Paul's... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

into the power of a value proposition, conduct customer discovery, and determine whether a startup has achieved product-market fit? How can modern genAI tools assist in the ideation and value proposition discovery process? 2. Go to View Details

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial incentives. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/NoMarginNoMission_JPubE.pdf... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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