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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
consumerism in health care and the significant challenges that remain in realizing its full potential. Five Ways to Make Things Better: Taking Positive Action in a Troubled World Professor Rosabeth Kanter + More Info – Less Info Even... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
In randomized control trials all over the world, instead of giving access to a loan, a one-time cash grant was found to have transformative impacts on livelihoods and businesses six months, one year, five years, 10 years later. We learned... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
growth of green industries and the early stages of ESG investing. The second path, which developed from the 1970s, grew out of the interest of big business which sought an alternative route to governmental regulations they regarded as... View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
provided some level of discrimination between founders and non-founders, five factors showed statistically significant differences. For example, founders scored significantly higher than non-founders on “comfort with uncertainty,”... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
non-core users when they are perceived as brand tourists. The brand tourism effect is mediated by core users' pride and moderated by brand patriotism and selectiveness of the brand. August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Limits of Scale: Companies That Get View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
inches, which I mean, the ball itself is only five inches- DM: ... Right. Right. CM: ... you know, in diameter. You're talking about a pretty big error rate there when you're talking about plus or minus two... View Details
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Skydeck - Alumni
Platzer (MBA 2002) on the process of finding your purpose In Harmony Born in Korea, Michael Kim (MBA 1990) spent his formative years in the US. As his novel Offerings heads for the big screen, Asia’s “godfather of private equity” reflects... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
public databases, big M&A transactions have obvious economic significance, and it would be interesting to see how the market reacted to precise bids versus round ones. To determine the effect of round versus precise bids, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
looking across products allows one to pick up on things that get lost in discussing a single product. Note that this case often gets used with HBS No. 505-075, "Note on Innovation Diffusion: Rogers' Five Factors," which can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks
it are not representative of our Starbucks mission and values.” In contrast, Zuckerberg ducked the spotlight for five days and even then tried to shift the argument away from data privacy. In terms of public support, this tactic backfired... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
technique, but that extends to a lot of other parts of the investing world. The human-plus-machine idea is making a big impact in how things are being done. There are things that machines can do that humans don’t have to do. But at the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital
As a child, Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) had a big dream – to one day design engines for Ferrari. While naysayers told him to be realistic, Memme took that advice to mean he would need to pour himself into this goal for it to become a reality.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
the body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the literature has become increasingly fragmented. We review the literature on entrepreneurs’ mobilization of resources, spanning human, social, financial, and other forms of capital. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
months. With an increase in patent application by nearly 20 percent in five years, however, there is currently a backlog of a half-million applications, resulting in delays of an additional six months or more. In the past, employees have... View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
that no one had ever seen and that no one understood what it did was brilliant” Those are the questions David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano address in their new book, Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove,... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
buyers. After five weeks of research, the team concludes that the opportunity warrants further exploration. The question is, what should they do next? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/AmbigMainTextFinal_8a88b410-0618-40ea-969a-c29f3e509d9d.pdf May 2015 Journal of Information Technology Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel