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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted... View Details
- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
tells them so. What if those “original prices” stores base their discounts on aren’t real? That’s the question Donald Ngwe asks in his new working paper, Fake Discounts Drive Real Revenues in Retail. An assistant professor in Harvard... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
crisis is just as crucial as the response.” Over 60 percent of tech outages result in at least $100,000 in total losses, and 15 percent cost upward of $1 million, according to the Uptime Institute, a technology trade group. In severe... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
companies, and what can they do to protect themselves? Shih: Companies need to understand their vulnerabilities. If you are a company that uses tools with this kind of high embodiment of know-how and you can’t protect complimentary assets like recipes or View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
the United States was a highly protected market," declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has tracked the auto industry for decades. "That wasn't because of trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
creative destruction following U.S. banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. U.S. banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
Toyota, for instance, groups countries by existing and expected free trade areas. At other times, however, such definitions will yield regions that aren't geographically compact. After making its first foreign investments in Spain, for... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of schools. In Massachusetts, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Rothschild’s private placement group), took an interest in her and became a mentor. After graduating, Brown worked at CSFB in New York for four years in real estate and private equity before enrolling at HBS. Last summer, she worked in... View Details
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
first flocked to the area in the 1940s and worked together to build the entertainment hub it is today: a destination for gambling, trade shows, comedy, music, and some of the finest restaurants in the country. “It is simply the result of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
language you can imagine.” To sharpen his business skills, Hustead traded his cowboy boots for loafers and traveled to Boston for a three-week OPM session every year for three years. “Most businesses don’t know how or where they’re making... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
clean energy infrastructure industry. She is certain that training and re-training oil and gas industry workers for the new green economy can help drive voter support for climate change initiatives in Canada as well as the United States.... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
Welcome to the age of business interdependence, say HBS professor Marco Iansiti and collaborator Roy Levien, authors of the new HBSP book The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
creation, interpretation, and enforcement of rules. To elaborate, the model rests on five conceptual pillars: 1. Business strategy as game playing. In the new lexicon of business strategy, companies participate in ongoing games in which... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. Financing pressures. Bad diet. Family—what family? And now new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman reveals another... View Details
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Bernstein Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Managing International Trade and Investment Business, Government & the International Economy Meg Rithmire Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Managing Service Operations Technology & Operations Management Ryan Buell , Michael... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
behemoth’s corporate culture as it collided with the #MeToo movement’s spotlight on sexual relationships and power in the workplace. And as new information about Easterbrook’s romantic relationship with other employees emerged, it became... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
new water systems or repair deteriorating ones, there is money in water. Already a big business attracting major corporate players such as General Electric, Siemens, ITT, Suez, and Tyco, water is a $400 billion global industry. While just... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
publicly traded companies. But the relationship between the spectacular rise of sustainable investing and the growing number of “green patents,” as defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has not... View Details