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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
2.0 tools and applications like blogging, search engine optimization, and social media. Students follow the growth of HubSpot, an entrepreneurial venture which, in its quest for growth, faces significant challenges including the following: developing market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is significant cross-sectional targeting, with large increases in districts in which the election is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
her passion for travel, her appreciation of China's beauty and culture, and her desire to start her own business. Describes the startup of WildChina, a tour company targeting a high-end clientele with unusual and high-quality products,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
entrepreneur is perceived as stereotypically masculine vs. feminine? Is a female entrepreneur more likely to be funded if her business targets female customers? Will a successful track record increase a woman's chances of securing... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
his coauthors, correct some of the misinformation, describe how the thinking on the subject has evolved, and discuss the utility of the theory. They start by clarifying what classic disruption entails—a small enterprise targeting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
Imagine the glee of marketers at the dawn of the Internet era—could anyone imagine a more sophisticated, precise way of reaching consumers? By tracking the purchasing habits of its prey, marketers could respond with targeted advertising... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
first interviewees in Argentina and Chile were from business cultures which were discrete and did not welcome publicity. Our initial target was to transform research on business in emerging markets by providing a wholly new source of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
on math increased math scores by 0.47 standard deviation. One year after the programs were over initial gains remained significant for targeted children, but they faded to about 0.10 standard deviation. The Rise of In-Store Clinics—Threat... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
regulations targeted at a firm's industry as well as regulations targeted at other industries increase the likelihood that the firm will engage in such practices. These findings extend existing theory by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
buyer characteristics. Consider the experiences of condo developers targeting retirees who wanted to downsize their homes. Sales were weak until the developers realized their business was not construction but transitioning lives. Instead... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Vaccinations Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive deploys targeted and effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
directed to take steps within six months to reduce the waiting time for outpatient appointments—measured as the time to first available outpatient appointment—to no more than 15 days. For Furlan and his colleagues in neurology, achieving this View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has private information about its long-run target for the policy rate and (ii) the central bank is averse to bond-market volatility. In this setting, discretionary monetary policy is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David LaneHarvard Business School Case 811-078 Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
success. Alina Sandell, for example, said, “Key to all of this I think is assessing the characteristics of your culture, looking at whether your culture is aligned to your strategic requirements and then targeting effort to turn the dial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
performance on average. Silverthorne: For entrepreneurs who decide to stay the course, what does the funding outlook look like? Roche: Funding opportunities may dry up as venture capitalists increasingly struggle to raise new funds or exit from their existing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
data-id=_/OyGeuXvza1mT37tv8yo5][/div] One way to do that may be to specifically tailor policies by discipline, rather than typical “generic policies for all genders, and for all situations,” Lakhani notes. “Our paper would argue that you need to be much more View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
phenomenon benefits producers and consumers alike. But a recent Harvard Business Review article by consultants Mark Gottfredson and Keith Aspinall questions whether there are benefits for producers, particularly those producing increasingly varied products View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
Organization. The Strategy Maps book elaborates the first principle in the SFO book, going into much more depth and with a large number of examples of how to translate a strategy into measurable, linked objectives. Our next target will be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
directly with the faculty and a dedicated facilitator to address their organizational performance gaps around the issues they have identified, analyze the root causes of those gaps, and develop targeted action plans for implementing... View Details
Keywords: by Staff