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- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
Another alternative summer camp organized by Independent Means is Noise: The Summer Experience for the Music Entrepreneur. Noise introduces teenagers to the business side of the music industry. "I spend my life trying to make the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
allows customers to quickly try out ideas and design alternatives without having to manufacture the actual products. When the simulation technology lacks the desired accuracy, it can be supplemented with rapid prototyping methods. Second,... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
for remote communication. Suggest alternate times to connect Offer suggestions on how and when team members should book time with you outside of office hours. For example, you could say: “Office hours are a great way to bounce ideas... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Bank after a distinguished career as a Wall Street investment banker. "I wanted a program that would stimulate their thinking and make them aware of different approaches to problem solving and implementation of alternative courses of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
available to their workers. The conference's agenda alternated between small breakout sessions that brought together participants from different industry areas and large group discussions where all attendees could compare notes. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
customer service. Harvard Business Review on Managing Diversity. From managing diversity to exploring alternative workplaces to debunking myths about compensation, the topics covered in this compilation address how to build organizations... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
findings suggest that overbilling is an important alternative manipulation tool in hospitals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53299 Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Further, how could his team excel beyond the company's day-to-day business and enable Nestlé's visions for the future? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/913406-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-129 Blackstone Alternative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
the type of financing firm. The additional empirical results allow us to distinguish the property-rights explanation from alternative stories, based on uncertainty and asymmetric information about the project quality or research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
middle of the night), are you thinking about the right issues as you ponder how the future will change your business? The answers to these questions can be tough, and their full implications are not always immediately clear. I provide a real-world guide to the various... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
But the literature on behavioral economics suggests an alternative interpretation, which is that people might simply be sticking with the default [option] and not taking the time to enroll. In this case, the default matters a lot. A paper... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
advantage of this overlap between the need for better education and the instincts of a business community to fill that market need. Clark: Public education has declined, so I think there needs to be some new way of providing quality learning. Business can help with... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
ambiguous effect on high-quality output. To evaluate this trade-off, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results suggest that feedback on net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
alternative investment firm peers in assets under management, new business launches, profitability, and market capitalization. Under the leadership of Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman and CEO, and president and COO Hamilton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research By: Serafeim, George Abstract—A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2024
- Case
TechEnergy Ventures: Innovating Through Corporate Venture Capital
By: Rebecca Karp and Lena Duchene
This case examines TechEnergy Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of the Techint Group, and its role in scaling innovation within the energy sector. Founded in 2021, TechEnergy Ventures operates with a mandate to invest in disruptive technologies to... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Growth and Development Strategy; Adaptation; Diversification; Innovation Strategy; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Italy; Europe; Latin America; Argentina
Karp, Rebecca, and Lena Duchene. "TechEnergy Ventures: Innovating Through Corporate Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Case 725-393, September 2024.
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
task selection effect and show that it occurs due to the positive feelings individuals get from task completion. These findings provide an alternative mechanism for the workload-speedup effect from the literature. We also discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
to those funds. An alternative in more recent times is what Viceira calls “private equity in public markets.” In these cases, investment funds adopt processes similar to private equity firms but without taking a public company private.... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
alternative financing models of corporate lenders, including banks and finance companies.) The second major component of the case concerns distressed debt investment strategies and provides an illustration of turning an investment in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel