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- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
decade. The small venture that he had started with a few of his scientist colleagues in the late 1990s to discover novel medicine in a research-driven organisation had grown into one of Europe's largest biotech View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
developed into a promising central midfielder; and yet, even though the coach named me captain of the under-15’s soccer team, people still just saw me as “das asiatische Kind” – the Asian kid. I simply stuck out as one of the few Asian children in Bottrop, a View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
university in Warsaw. The SB officers wanted to recruit Maj as an informer among the student ranks. Teenaged Maj was not an activist. He had spent his childhood in a small town about 50 kilometers outside Kraków, far from the workers’... View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan officer from a US-based social investment View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22
self-sorting, and manager-directed joint learning. It shows that such culture will be stronger among more important employees and in older and more successful firms where employees make important decisions and the manager has strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
in a multi-platform bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals can be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We develop a taxonomy of envelopment attacks and analyze conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict pollution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
with the investment-management firm PIMCO, Lemmon is now the deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, the influential, nonpartisan think tank headquartered in New York. She has recently... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
is the capability to show full motion video, which some people will find compelling. This is going to be an increasing part of the advertising world, but it's still a pretty small percentage. Beyond search advertising, marketers are using... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
challenges for companies in crisis situations. Unlike a turnaround, a crisis can be a catastrophic event, or a series of seemingly small events, that often surprise leaders. Most organizations are not designed to prevent or manage crises;... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
on carbon conversion and turning his garage—temporarily—into a laboratory. TB: I ultimately came upon an electrochemical type of process which turned out could be pretty easily prototyped at a very small scale in one's garage—buying some... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
venture capital firm when he and his wife, Lee Bendig (whom he describes as a “foodie”), decided to open a fresh pasta retail store in 1989 with a few seats for lunchtime customers. On the first day of business, Garner recalls, “there was... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
When to Network Bridge Chicken-or-Egg and Growth at Picabuu Show Hide Details Concepts Chicken-or-Egg Problem Disintermediation Network Bridging Featured Exercises Describe ways platforms can reduce users’ adoption costs Determine how a View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
small businesses like her own, succeeded in pushing the boundaries of antitrust legislation. Edna Gleason, known as the “Mother of Fair Trade.” Courtesy of the journal Pharmacy in History. The photo first appeared in American Druggist,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
helped give 'made in Germany' a sheen of quality rather than shoddiness. Managing Innovation in Small Worlds Authors:Lee Fleming and Matt Marx Periodical:MIT Sloan Management Review 48, no. 1 (fall 2006): 8-9 Abstract Innovation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money,”... View Details
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Harvard Business School
now call diversity . . . certainly African American issues were just a small part of the agenda, if any part of the agenda." 14 Of that era, Lewis said, "We felt particularly emboldened—that we had nothing to lose." 15 Lewis worked in a... View Details