Publications

2001
Chapter

The Commercialization of Internet Access: Lessons from Recent Experience

By: Shane Greenstein

spring 1999
Article

Building a Company on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape

By: D. B. Yoffie and M. A. Cusumano

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Business Ventures; Web Services Industry

24 Oct 2004 - 27 Oct 2004
Conference Presentation

Empirical Research in Software Deveopment: Lessons from the Field

By: Alan MacCormack

Keywords: Research; Applications and Software; Product Development

2003
Class Lecture

Fatal Ascent: Leadership Lessons from the 1996 Everest Tragedy

By: Michael A. Roberto

April 1974
Article

Computerization of the ABC Company: Lessons of the Decade

By: R. L. Nolan and Eric Knudsen

Keywords: Information Technology; Business Ventures

April 24, 2020
Article

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

By: Sarah Abbott, Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg and Abhijit Naik

2011
Chapter

Macroprudential Policy and Monetary Policy: Some Lessons from the Euro Area

By: Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, Huw Pill and Lucrezia Reichlin

2015
Working Paper

Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals

By: Renée Adams, Matti Keloharju and Samuli Knüpfer

What makes a CEO? We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory military enlistment test, with data on their service as a CEO of any Swedish company decades later. CEOs have higher cognitive and non-cognitive... View Details

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Management Teams

SSRN

2009
Chapter

Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current Issues

By: Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda

Mexico is often cited as one of the world's most entrepreneurial countries in terms of the percentage of its population that has started or is in the process of starting a business venture. Yet Mexico does not seem to be very friendly to entrepreneurs, as confirmed by... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Competition; Mexico

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

continued success once the downturn ends.” As business leaders begin planning for the coming year in the midst of all the market turmoil and uncertainty, this is one lesson it might pay to remember. View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

2015
Book

Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

By: David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano

The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business—Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs—offering... View Details

Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

Entrepreneurs and managers who can't adapt to the fast pace of change in the world—"a world that should be on Prozac"—are likely to miss out on opportunities in the years to come, says HBS Professor Howard Stevenson. The good news: For those who adapt, this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

April 30, 2012
Article

Innovators, Are You Applying the Wrong Lessons from Manufacturing?

By: Don Reinertsen and Stefan Thomke

Product developers can learn much from manufacturing, but many have gone too far in applying ideas that work in manufacturing to their realm. That’s because they have ignored some fundamental differences between the two disciplines. View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Manufacturing; Innovation and Invention; Product Development

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November 11, 2020
Article

Lessons on Leading Through Chaos from U.S. Special Operations

By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko

Register to Read

February 2011 (Revised July 2011)
Case

Deferred Tax Assets in Basel III: Lessons from Japan

By: David F. Hawkins, Karthik Ramanna, Nobuo Sato and Mayuka Yamazaki

In a controversial decision, the Bank for International Settlements includes deferred tax assets as part of a bank's core capital. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Assets; Capital; Central Banking; Taxation; Banking Industry; Japan

Educators

November 1998 (Revised August 1999)
Case

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Home Products Division (C): Lessons from Europe

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Technology Industry; United States; Europe

Educators

1996
Working Paper

Mentoring and the Boundaryless Career: Lessons from Minority Experience

By: David A. Thomas and Monica C. Higgins

January 22, 2002
Article

Chasing Dreams during Troubled Times: Lessons from the Past

By: Nancy F. Koehn