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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream innovation for a particular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
stage for so long. I wanted to go back to kind of like how do ideas work? Small teams. Working on solving big problems. And that's what led me to venture. My wife and I had lived all over the place but we had never lived in Silicon Valley... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
it an accurate picture of its situation and impacts, and 2) generating rapid growth. Students learn how non-financial metrics are integral to Opportunity International's mission but are difficult to define and measure; tailored metrics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
that might surprise HBS alumni about you? I spend some of my time on weekends doing simple chores. It’s amazing how much thinking you can get done while power-washing a fence. — SY Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) IMMELT When he succeeded Jack Welch as chairman and CEO of View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
document her recipes. And I thought the food is just amazing, yet it's a region of China that is not very well known. But over the years, those recipes got shelved a little bit. Only two years ago, WildChina was celebrating its 15th year anniversary. And we thought,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
very little of the variation in sales growth and margins.” Accordingly, Oberholzer-Gee advised that “it is a not a good idea to dismiss a company’s investment potential because it is in the interior of the country.” Second, the importance... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
urban and rural, the new urbanization does not upend China’s longstanding duality between those categories. The central goals of the new urbanization are to manage urbanization so as to generate domestic demand and reorganize agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
theoretical understanding of brand relationship phenomena and ideas for practical application from experiments and execution in commercial practice. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships will be the perfect read for marketing faculty and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
of September 11 as well as the recent declines in stock values, we've clearly seen renewed interest in the idea of government as ultimate risk manager. And so, with respect to a potential Phase IV, I suppose we'll just have to wait and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
she befriended the descendants of coffee entrepreneurs, interviewed local historians, and pored over old documents in the backrooms of rural municipal buildings. Click on image to view slideshowProduction Zones and Collection Points for Coffee in Chiapas" by Karl... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
am I here?' Coupled with this, you have many people looking for a renewed sense of community. They're searching for a sense of belonging." The "S" Word For many people, work and spirituality call for such different -and sometimes contradictory-mindsets that the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
the checks are more reflective of the population, the people receiving the checks will become more representative of the population.”—Hayley Barna (MBA 2010), general partner, First Round Capital Today Barna sits on the other side of the... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
companies have attempted to renegotiate with Apple to set higher prices for new, more popular content. Our analysis suggests that this may be a bad idea because it is precisely for popular content that p2p is a better substitute for... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in entrepreneurship View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
to "double the vase life," she says, of regular florist fare. The idea for the business (whose name refers to botanical flower terms) first sprouted, Owades recalls, "when I noticed that the wholesale flower market in San Francisco seemed... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
to convince consumers to buy luxury goods." The Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe promotes the idea that its products can be handed down from one generation to the next, for example. With such a limitless... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
Economy”. The virtual symposium attracted over 500 professionals across academia and industry, from investors to policy makers, to engage in discussion, debate, and share ideas about the future of energy in a new economy shaped by COVID,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Baptist Church in Atlanta, and he had no idea of being a civil rights leader. He was thrust into this. He said if he had more time to think about it he would have said, "No way I can do this, I'm just a minister." But, he got... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring... View Details