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- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
it the drive for success, particularly financial success, which may require that the entrepreneur step aside once certain business milestones have been reached? Onset does not like to invest in founders who "want to be King" out... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
of the hacker style of programming with the need to be more predictable and coordinated in managing software releases. Projects that are more closely coupled with commercial firms have experienced direct pressure from firms to communicate... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 11 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure!
landmarks, like the Hallgrímskirkja Church, and found great food in the Icelandic capital city, Reykjavik. Tyler & Sydney in front of Hallgrímskirkja Church Our first scheduled stop was an overview with our group’s host, Jesper Jolma, an View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
most promising young leaders firsthand, lived experience in parts of the world that, frankly, too few of us have had direct exposure to, and many, many more of us need to understand firsthand. Flint: Why have Americans been slower to come... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
opposite: in today’s world, capital is mobile. If American companies cannot employ the best talent in the United States, they have two choices: risk becoming less competitive in an intensively competitive world; or locate your capital View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor demand for fair value... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
in Nitin’s honor is a fitting tribute to his remarkable legacy.” Finally, just as flexible funding was key to Nohria’s success leading the School, it will be essential to Datar’s ability to innovate and advance the HBS mission during his deanship. The majority of... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
financial crises (we were lucky to have thought of that over a year ago), and on salesmen. There's been growing interest in the topic of salesmanship over the last several years. In 2008, the University of Reading hosted a conference called "On the Road: View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis argues... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Seattle cable television company, and in 1969 sold the enterprise -- by then a multimillion-dollar business -- to CBS. He then "dabbled in real estate" and during a trip to the South Pacific to explore potential investment opportunities,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Treadwell Illustration by Jeff Smith A thirty-year resident of Alaska, Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) is chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. The commission, which reports to the President and Congress, sets direction for the U.S.... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
coming in with their own brands, and you're telling me you're growing. What am I not getting?" It became evident to her that Francesco had a quite sophisticated view not just of the category but also of the food industry. He was building his brand through View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA '89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has become the industry leader in a new business spawned by the Internet -- ad serving. The firm sells ad space on the Web... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
know we have the capability in McHenry to fix any problem and make that product work.” CGM has some twenty full-time U.S. employees. Although the global recession brought about downsizing at the company in 2009, it was also an opportunity to View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Abstract This paper provides a simple model of platforms with direct network effects, in which users value not just the quantity (i.e., number) of other users who join, but also their average quality in some dimension. A monopoly platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
to Platforms: Making the Leap By: Zhu, Feng, and Nathan Furr Abstract—Following the path of companies such as Apple and Amazon, more and more firms are trying to become not just product purveyors but also platform providers, facilitating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
way of lifting people up and limiting the damage—and preventing the current economic crisis from getting dramatically worse, or triggering a financial collapse. But equally important, in my view, is investing as much as we possibly can to... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The Rate and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Building on previous theories of how social activists inspire field-level change, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to cooperate with shareholder requests for information disclosure. Using a unique dataset, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne