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- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
1990s, these two historical trends met, as the concept of sustainable development spread to large conventional corporations, and visionary green firms scaled or were acquired by conventional big businesses. The concept of sustainability... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
Broido Johnson MBA 2002 | Leading Change, Locally “I’m developing new financing solutions that make it more affordable for people to use renewable energy (as we did at SunEdison) and working with entrepreneurs across the clean energy industry to View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
create significant value and have modest operating costs, and network effects protect their position once established-users rarely leave a vibrant platform. But these businesses also raise significant start-up challenges. Every platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
work,” she says. “It was so different from being an operator and having a product, deadlines, and customers.” Now in its sixth year, the Entrepreneur-in-Residence program invites accomplished entrepreneurs to the HBS campus for a year to collaborate with faculty and... View Details
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
and outstanding as any other HBS activity or program. Totaling nearly $12 million, expenses related to this work at HBX were a significant new factor in the School’s overall financial performance for fiscal 2014. Although HBX is in View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
search terms team, teamwork, work groups, or collaboration, in combination with survey or questionnaire. Principal findings. We found 58 scales that measured teamwork; 12 of them have been shown to relate to non-self-report outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
priorities that have made it so successful are difficult to overcome as the company tries to diversify away from its core. The case examines the history and evolution of the New Business Initiatives (NBI) group, as the leader grapples with the questions surrounding why... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
grown, we’ve gone from feeling like a small, scrappy start-up to a much bigger organization, which brings with it new challenges and opportunities. “I also find the lessons from BSSE useful on a daily basis—‘Jobs to be Done’ is one of our... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of a business decision related to the valuing of sweat equity in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
be determined. Snoey says that riding has replaced his other great love, mountain climbing. Scaling over fifty mountains around the world, including Mount McKinley, Alpamayo, Kilimanjaro, Orizaba, and Mont Blanc, took its physical toll... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public offering and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
start-up companies, two of which we have followed quite intensively for a period of two years, at first even sitting in on their board meetings and then tapering off to periodic interviews. We've also written three Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
providing retail, housing and entertainment facilities that catered to Colombia’s middle class. While White Stone’s proposal would solve many of Jaguar’s challenges as a start-up real estate development company, the offer would also... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
time to maintain high standards and efficiency. Leaders of firms from start-ups to tech giants should give themselves the room they need to manage employee performance while shifting headcount to match strategic priorities when the need... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
don’t provide. “We’ve worked with MESO for two consecutive years,” says Lin. “We helped them scale their approach across different markets, and during the pandemic, when the in-person connection to their existing and potential clients... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
bigger and more complex, corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Pisano’s research of over three decades and his on-the ground experience with big companies and fast-growing ones that have moved beyond the start-up stage, provide new thinking... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale and invested at a slow pace,... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
focuses on scaling a venture's sales process and provides a methodology for identifying core customers and some implications for governance criteria and potential product changes as well as sales management. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
1999 by chairman and CEO Michael Bronner, had all the scale anyone could ask for: to create a national customer-loyalty program (like airlines' frequent-traveler mileage points) which would pay consumers rebates on their shopping—not in... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg