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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
countries, agriculture still represents a large share of the domestic economy. Small farms and lack of resources often means that agriculture is highly inefficient. Technology can dramatically improve productive capacity of farms and... 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
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
2009), Senior Program Officer, The Kresge Foundation Just what does it mean for a city to go bankrupt? Bankruptcies are so commonly associated with firms and individuals that we tend to use the same mental models to evaluate Detroit's... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
(both MBA 1996) proposed the contest as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. “We looked at it as not just a theoretical paper for class but a sustainable plan,” says Wagonfeld, who was then president of the View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous demand shocks and partially neglect the endogenous investment responses of their competitors. Formal estimation of the model confirms that both types of expectational errors are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 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
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
in large and small groups. They wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business Publishing); collected data on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
famous inventor Charles F. Kettering (MBA ’27) predicted ARD would go bust in five years. But Doriot proved him wrong over the next 25 years, as his firm financed and nurtured more than 100 start-ups, many of which became huge successes... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
entrepreneurs have to make tough choices all the time. Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92), founder and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Women & Enterprise, advised, "Don't go with your gut without doing analysis." In contrast, Roxanne Quimby, founder, president, and CEO of... View Details
- 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
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
studies conducted by doctoral student Bhavya Mohan working with HBS faculty found that lower CEO-to-employee pay ratios—say, 60 to 1—improve consumer perceptions. A firm with a 1,000-to-1 ratio would have to offer a 50 percent discount on... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
cassettes and other forms of analog content replication were subject to quality degradation and required physical exchange, which confined sharing to relatively small social networks (family and friends). By eliminating these... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
inequality. We are hoping to engage more and more companies and alumni in bringing the power of the market system to the inner city." Partnering for Success A small number of key business leaders can make a big difference by leveraging... View Details