Cold Start Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

environmental and social problems they are grappling with. Table 1 Company Integration and Investor Interest in Environmental Performance Table 2 Company Integration and Investor Interest in Social Performance Call To Action When Table 1... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

21 Dec 2018
News

Bridging the Gap

school and college? And where are you starting to see the idea get traction? Falik: It starts with the language we use. The metaphor of a gap year is exactly the wrong one—this idea that you’re sending your... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-043.pdf Media versus Special Interests Authors:Alexander Dyck, David Moss, and Luigi Zingales Abstract We argue that profit-maximizing media helps overcome the problem of "rational ignorance"... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

concentrate on developmental capital and buyouts. If that worked, we could turn our attention to brand-new ventures later on, which we did." "We started out as generalists," says Waite. "All through the '60s and '70s, there wasn't a... View Details

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

information about inventors' immigration status or ethnicities, they do contain the inventors' names. By utilizing name-matching software, the researchers could infer the ethnicity of inventors at any given firm. An inventor named Chang was likely Chinese, for example.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

on shared terminals in Baker Library, the game required first-year students to put their newly acquired knowledge of marketing, control, finance, and operations to the test in a simulated competitive business environment. In addition to the game, View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

certain settings. In particular we find that the impact of the changes on problem solving, standardization of work, and coordination improve the way that the firm learns and its productivity. Using a detailed case study we document the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

York City–based cybersecurity firm Flashpoint. Lefkowitz and his cofounder spent “the better part of the 2000s” consulting for federal clients, primarily the Department of Justice, on terrorism investigations before starting Flashpoint in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school students completing high school at... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

sees a problem with the larger system within which boards and executives function. Writing in the Washington Post, he and Andy Zelleke, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, argue for serious corporate soul-searching:... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

innovations (for whom the price of failure tolerance is too high) can only be started by investors who are not failure tolerant. Since policies to stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects... View Details

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

the chief regulatory officer) voice their views on the risks, collectively bringing a multiple stakeholder perspective to the risk profile. The case challenges students to define the problems and risks that the company faces, given its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

funds. President Bush formally endorsed Taylor in late October, calling him “an outstanding leader and a decorated combat veteran who will make a difference in Congress.” While money hasn’t been a problem for Taylor, his grasp of issues... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Sep 2005
News

WATER Ltd.

opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,” says Brown. “Its drawbacks are... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Class Notes Extra

Harmony Growing up in late-1960s Milwaukee, Bill Ahlhauser was a self-described “young radical,” a teenager who took part in civil rights marches and who dropped out of his Catholic private school in order to start up an independent high... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

power? Is it who isn’t, but might be some day? Is it something else, something deeper?” She said part of the problem is the way the word “diversity” is thrown around as a “self-congratulatory shorthand” by people in industries that have a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

professor Wasserman to learn more about his research.New Business: Tell us about your research. Noam Wasserman: My research focuses on founder frustrations in entrepreneurial firms, with a particular emphasis on the core issues of organization building that cause View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. The boom years of the 1970s and 1980s—when Japanese management practices and... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2011
News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

pay the government up front for bailing them out. The old system didn’t work too well, and this one wouldn’t either. Wouldn’t the pool of reinsurance money paid by these private institutions shield the government from any losses? Not necessarily. The View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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