Idea Generation - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 15

economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that projects that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

will do well to manage your time carefully. Some angels think that evaluation starts with the first meeting and continues right up to the moment of writing the check. In order to structure this book effectively, we address evaluation as a single isolated entity, but... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

connected with alumni in Venture Capital to learn more about their portfolio companies and how she could contribute. When she reached out to Satoshi Shinada (MBA 2019), General Partner at Kepple Africa Ventures, there was a perfect fit.... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

exploration of how business and school leaders are addressing inequities in education. BRIDGING THE GAP Some of the best moments of my day are when I’m talking to students and hearing about their experiences, but what drives me to do this work is the View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

solving many of the same problems along the way but in isolation. So she wrote the manual. Drawing on her own experiences and the road map established by Grommet’s ventures, Pieri’s book, How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2005
News

Baker’s back

15th-century manuscripts in the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room. Exhibitions in the library’s corridors will bridge the past and present, drawing parallels between historic happenings and recent events. Faculty members can bounce ideas off... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is... View Details

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

protect their investors? Was this a deliberate move to draw more investment? Does this shed light on today's common one-share, one-vote practices? A: The book is a bit critical of the idea that "one-share, one-vote" is magic for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

clubs get exclusive access to our corporate sponsors - top investment banks, consulting firms, technology companies, and general management companies - more than one week early. This year, we hosted our first ever virtual Diversity Career... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Business by Leonard C. Green (OPM 18, 1992) (AMACOM) “Big new ideas rarely make great businesses.” “Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time.” “You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do.”... View Details

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

in the World. READ MORE Dan Morrell: You know, you spoke [about] how there was previously this idea of life in three stages, right, learn, earn, and retire. The way that you break it down this book is into five quarters. Can you outline... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

better." Graduating from HBS at the dawn of the psychedelic '70s, the Class of 1971 nevertheless seemed to follow in the footsteps of generations of MBAs before them, opting for careers on Wall Street or in manufacturing, real estate, or... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

explaining why monetary policy was tight during the Great Depression. The paper shows that the evolution of policy was much more gradual and flexible after the Volcker disinflation, when the Fed was not generally deemed to have made an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

our high schools. These young scholars are often China’s best and brightest, and they are bringing back ideas and outlooks that present challenges to the current government, which is moving in a more traditional, conservative direction.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

John A., and Leora Kornfeld Abstract—The new marketing order, as played out on media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, is so unlike the order it is displacing that it might seem like bedlam, an asylum of sorts for ideas... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

Sheikh extended this idea when he proposed that, "the number of work hours should be dictated by productivity—i.e., very productive individuals in an organization should be rewarded with greater time off (within) upper and lower... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

other research examines the design of performance measurement systems and incentive contracts for rewarding teams and channel partners. In short, this research explores the idea that career concerns, influenced by disclosure requirements,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

Thomke and Eric von Hippel Tapping into customer innovation can certainly generate tremendous value, but capturing that value is hardly a simple or straightforward process. Not only must companies develop the right tool kit, they must... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

an association, its structure presents many limitations and hurdles to overcome involving investing in technology platform updates and generating ideas and initiatives to monetize the use community. Purchase... View Details