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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
elective: International Entrepreneurial Finance. As he explained in a presentation to other HBS professors during the Faculty Research Symposium on May 20, the research project has led him to examine in detail twenty-nine sites that cover... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
and MIT Sloan School of Management Dean Richard Schmalensee, which will come out from MIT Press next fall. I am working on several papers attempting to provide theoretical frameworks for studying some of the issues mentioned above, such... View Details
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
sharing accurate information,” says Jordan. You Might Also Like: Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President Feedback or... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
can be profitable while doing good, suggests new research from Benjamin N. Roth, a Harvard Business School assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “This idea that you're increasing your impact by leveraging capital,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
his teaching career at Wharton. As a newly minted twenty-nine-year-old professor there, he said, he found himself the recipient of a steady stream of practical advice from the senior faculty. Don't hang back by the blackboard when... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from Customers in Outsourcing: Individual and Organizational Effects
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
preserve that collaborative culture, the founder long resisted being acquired by a larger firm. Asset management companies typically are either publicly traded or are limited partnerships, in which top performers View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
stakeholders, including the patients these charities are ostensibly designed to help,” the paper says. You Might Also Like: Can Amazon Remake Health Care? Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
When Noam Wasserman (HBS MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the "fundamental implications of those decisions were... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
Vulnerabilities don’t work on a calendar. Cybercriminals show up when they show up.” You Might Also Like: How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
preparing for the innovations that will define the future. This mental balancing act can be one of the toughest of all managerial challenges—it requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently to exploit... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
are more flexible. You're only going to be enhancing all worker commitments. You're likely to be better at retaining talent, too. There's a nice example of what organizations can do from work by Maureen... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing up and seizing opportunity. Their discussion gives insights... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story
Boston. Produced in collaboration with Danielle Kost and Dina Gerdeman of HBS Working Knowledge. Inspired by the case "Larry Miller" by Francesca... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Research that explores how children benefit from having a working mom blew away the field for most popular feature article on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2015.... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says... View Details
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
as “anxious achievers.” To paraphrase Aarons-Mele, anxious achievers are those who deal with anxiety often associated with feelings of inadequacy by working harder to achieve more. Like other major academic... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details