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- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
Debates over the pluses and minuses of immigrant entrepreneurs on the American economy are white hot, but one thing seems stubbornly lacking from them: facts. The arguments are familiar by now. Immigrants take jobs from native-born... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
You don’t know what you don’t know—and almost by definition new entrepreneurial ventures need a helping hand from established partners if they hope to succeed. “Startups suffer from what researchers call ‘liability of newness,’” says... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
Sometimes a little push like that is all employees need to get out of a rut. About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: Mark Kostich] Related Reading Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril Knowledge Transfer: You... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
that by becoming the world’s expert in a very narrow area.” If anything, people in businesses tend to be even more hyper-focused than academics, Nagle says, siloing R&D workers in very narrow research areas that give them a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms grows, prompting firms to explore a new way of boosting the success of portfolio companies... View Details
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
these investments motivated consumers to plunk down their credit cards or fill out an application for a service. That's why the Internet has been such a godsend to companies, says Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
Foundation (now the Livestrong Foundation). Since 2004, the yellow Livestrong bracelets on the wrists of his supporters had become a ubiquitous symbol of hope and determination. When Armstrong chose to break the rules of professional cycling View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
Sant’Anna; and Federico Tamagni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. They define growth as “a process by which organizations pursue market opportunities and the acquisition and accumulation of the resources required to exploit those... View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
that coaches demonstrate less racial preference when their team is on a losing streak or in playoff games. More than any other American sport, basketball is dominated by African American players. Three-quarters of athletes running up and... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
featuring music by the local symphony as 250,000 Christmas lights lit up the county courthouse. Then revelers could head to the Samsung Ice Skating Rink, the only outdoor venue of its kind in all of Texas—which also happened to be located... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
of the disease, a new study of underreported casualties in several countries indicates that COVID has actually killed hundreds of thousands more people than government records document. "We were shocked by the magnitude of what we were... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
Who really runs the world? We're not talking in a power-brokers-conspiring-in-the-back-room sort of way. Rather, by looking at the institutions that countries themselves have set up to organize the world's affairs, can we determine who is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?
behavior by colleagues—shortcuts in analysis, intoxication on the job, inappropriate relationships. In general, the question you must ask is whether the issue ultimately affects the work delivered to clients and whether it harms the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
Mitchell B. Weiss has heard it too many times: government doesn't work. Too slow. Too bureaucratic. Too burdened by procurement rules and performance measures. "Some of that is fair, and some of that is unfair, but it adds up over... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
implantable defibrillators or transcatheter heart valves, the FDA's regulatory approval process appears to delay those approvals, which in turn adds to development costs borne by device manufacturers, according to Innovation under... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
business by finding customers who needed rooms in cities hosting popular events. Source: GoodLifeStudio “If you don’t have a supply of houses and apartments, people are not going to come,” says Teixeira. The problem was, where to find... View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks
marketers think of the customer experience like a play in three acts—pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase. However, research by De Freitas and fellow researchers looked more holistically at the customer journey and found that most... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
it. Those emotions are deep-seated from an evolutionary standpoint. “From a survival perspective, we are risk-averse,” she says. “Just as we are interested in other people thinking well of us. Long ago, rejection by the group could, in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
about Whole Foods customers, really angry customers, regularly encountering empty shelves at their favorite retailer. Then stories surfaced about Whole Foods employees crying over their new performance-driven working conditions imposed by... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: iStockphoto/LL28] What's the best management advice you've heard? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Five Ways To Keep Connected View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding