Futures Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

looking for opportunities to be creative. I thought my future career would be in advertising, likely as a copywriter. Two undergraduate internships at large retail advertisers gave me enough exposure and experience to discover that, in... View Details

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

trends in the market, the case prompts students to examine the future adoption of drug-eluting stents as well as to consider the potential marketing actions to be taken by Medtronic for ENDEAVOR—a newly... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

side—while the early stage side is not quite as pretty a picture." The Future Of Europe Asked how the market is likely to evolve in a climate that contains enormous diversity in geography, business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Sep 2008
News

The Business Environment in the 21st century

activities by business groups and leaders; helping business leaders organize around the sort of system-level issues discussed at the colloquium and establishing ongoing dialogue among multiple business stakeholders; training future... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Hunter Goble

of the totem pole, it’s hard to make a significant impact; there’s a long slog to accumulate influence. Meanwhile, you’re not getting paid, and future compensation is not very attractive. That’s when I started thinking about business. The... View Details

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

technical expertise, said Kapoor. A sense of timing and a good marketing instinct are two qualities at a premium in today's market. "It's not about specialization," said Reiss. "It's about quickly figuring out new trends... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

01 Jun 2012
News

Plan B: The Brick Bank

Habitat for Humanity International to evaluate the viability of a new partnership with a microsavings institution in the Mekong Delta. “The intent of the program was to encourage poor and near-poor households to save for future... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (223) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future... View Details

06 Dec 2017
Blog Post

The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

(VC) funds. The unifying theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future We’re Building’. At the baseline, we wanted to discuss emerging technologies and trends such as blockchain, augmented reality/virtual reality, cryptocurrency,... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Dec 2018
News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

otherwise take a decade to diagnose. But NextGen Jane is building more diseases into the pipelines. “There are so many understudied areas in women’s health we could explore,” Tariyal says. Illustration by Marcos Chin The Question: “The first test I bring to View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2001
News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

tools and techniques of which their contemporaries were only vaguely aware to serve markets which, in some instances, they had to create." In a recent interview, Tedlow described Giants of Enterprise as a labor of love. "I have been... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

variety and quality, not a lot of duplicate mainstream content” The good news: Advertising encourages bloggers to produce more and longer content, leavened with more photos and video, which prompts more bookmarking among readers. This practice perhaps points the way... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

conducting outreach to help spread the word about the important role entrepreneurs played in a modern market economy. How has the China Entrepreneurs Forum been an innovative business and social organization in modern China? What lies in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

impact. Along the way, I’ve been able to develop my understanding through both coursework and extracurricular offerings at Harvard. My background in the tech industry Before HBS, I worked at Google, where I started in the rotational Associate Product View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

I never took the General’s course. That I had avoided him all that time is one of the significant mistakes of my lifetime. Richard Chapin (MBA ’49) Georgetown, ME HBS Should Probe Capitalism’s Troubles I read with keen interest the report on the June HBS faculty... View Details

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

trade with a high degree of market mediated objectivity—as the model for a future where managers struggle hopelessly to keep up with investor-perceived value shifts. They seem to directly challenge the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need for increasing speed and... View Details