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- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
often see staged financing in new venture situations. The fourth is sources of financing. While traditional finance courses have focused on classic corporate financing options, we introduce venture capital, angel investors, strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
behavioral patterns that have worked in the past,” Goldberg says. “Changing behaviors takes time. I’m a big fan of continuous refresher training to keep the issue front of mind... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
in the paper Are Bankers Worth Their Pay? Evidence from a Talent Measure by Boris Vallée, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Claire Célérier, an assistant professor at the University of... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
the frustrations that can emerge as we talk to people who work with or study strategy is they read these ideas and say, "OK, so the resource allocation is complicated and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
because it draws upon the power of the founding myths of the country (the myth of success, the frontier myth, the city on a hill) and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
at the Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C., and associate editor of Negotiation Journal. Wheeler agreed to take some questions from HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
discussed his thoughts on the current business environment and how deals get done with HBS Working Knowledge. Julia Hanna: Talk a little about what you mean by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
structure, value, and finance large, "Greenfield" projects. He also has created the Project Finance Portal. Perhaps fittingly, his HBS office is just a few miles down the road from one of the most... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
important open-ended question: What does a positive outcome mean to you? "We were getting all these different answers, and very few of them mentioned survival,"... View Details
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
the Starbucks experience? Is Apple's biggest challenge that of replacing Steve Jobs or is it that of resisting the inevitable pressures from competition and Wall Street? Just... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
Christensen discusses economic theory and personal happiness. WORKING PAPERS Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
ruling can outlaw work that was previously supported by the government. Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen. Great People Abandon Promising Projects The projects are less important than the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
Fraud," is published in the December 2006 Journal of Accounting Research. Miller, whose favorite non-academic business reading includes the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the investor... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
more important, Choudhury says, as people increasingly choose to live and work close to where they grew up, often foregoing economic opportunity to do so. “Vacation flexibility View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
the person show evidence of imagination? Of really knowing what it means to work very hard and persevere to solve... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
of the ascending chairman and his constituents. That is, a change in chairmanship can only occur if the incumbent retires or is voted out--both View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
There is a mismatch between what many scholars assume is the purpose of taxes and what most people believe for themselves. That mismatch means that the advice experts offer to... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
story is one of many that have evoked dropped jaws among Sucher's students. "When we show the videos in class, it's in an atmosphere of complete and utter silence,"... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
employees in the dark and constantly surprising them is a serious form of disrespect." Bert Baker linked it to integrity with this comment: "When I know that my manager is a person View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett