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26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

bring different people together and spur them to action.” Their reward for thinking beyond profits? These businesses tend to live a long time. In fact, on a global map, Japan stands out for corporate longevity; 40 percent of companies... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage them. Effective apps will do one... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
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NOWaccount

By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship

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23 Jul 2012
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The Power of Conversational Leadership

Instead, they are adopting a conversational approach. In their new book, Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations, Groysberg and communication professional Michael Slind show how several global... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2021
Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

new book The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It, Sucher and her coauthor, HBS research associate Shalene Gupta, highlight those social media examples along with a global list of companies that have either... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

16 Feb 2010
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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

centricity cannot be achieved by simply listening to customers about their experiences with Best Buy; the company has to commit to owning the customers' problems and working creatively to solve them. Faced with increased price competition... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

benign envy in addition to decreasing their perceptions of the entrepreneur’s hubristic pride (i.e., arrogance) while increasing their perceptions of the entrepreneur’s authentic pride (i.e., confidence). These findings align with previous View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &... View Details

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2023, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students View Details

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Regional Winners - Alumni

New Venture Competition Regional Winners 19ms 2025 Alumni Regional Winners Noolie - Global Winner Noolie creates first-of-its-kind supplements for children in the form of a snack. We are revolutionizing how nutrition is given to kids... View Details

03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

company to do even more. Members of the fifth Integration and Values Team (IVT5) pondered this and other global citizenship possibilities, reviewing how people were developed and worked as the transition to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

student to prepare. A great virtue of the method is that it replicates the managerial work involved in solving a problem within a group. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0080 August 2013... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Anticorruption Efforts" (with Paul Healy, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12–077, 2012). George Serafeim : Runner-up for the 2013 Whitebox Grant for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for the paper with Mozaffar Khan and... View Details

18 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

It is commonly accepted in economic circles that a country can grow faster by making key investments in sectors such as technology and in R&D and human or physical capital. But can a country also grow by saving more? A recent working... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

11 Jan 2021
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Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

with Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, examined 35,262 high-tech startups founded globally between 2008 and 2013. They detailed their results in the working... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 Jan 2008
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Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

that they can leverage both countries symbiotically. Second, conduct a series of experiments. An entrepreneur has to make many decisions: how much money to sink in, whether to partner, how to work with relevant government or regulatory... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Entrepreneurs Prepare for leadership roles after working as an individual contributor or functional specialist. "I found the content of the course to be extremely informative and applicable to the real challenges of being a leader. I... View Details

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

react to the hiring decision, and was it worth the risk? Would male employees or local partners be reluctant to work with a woman? Would local customers refuse to trust the decisions of a woman? "You're basically facing a... View Details