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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
range of online cyber attacks, from spam to large DDoS attacks, and will make it easy to add third-party services. That first sentence of the business plan is what we do today. I think that it’s gotten broader, but we didn’t really pivot... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
by traditional models of decision making under uncertainty and highlight the importance of increasing the salience of unfavorable information in uncertain contexts to promote unbiased decision making. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
was stopped, leaving JCI with a large organization and strong revenues, but losses and a dwindling balance sheet. He is seriously considering severe personnel cuts; however, layoffs in Japan may cause severe damage to his reputation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
undertaking that could be worked on as a Holy Grail,” says Daniel J. Holland (MBA ’62), an ARD staffer in the late 1960s. “But he wouldn’t write a check until all the risks were understood.” Creating a Model for Venture Capital Success... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
up the child of immigrants with language school on weekends, or it meant foreign tourist, in town for a few years for a job or degree. As someone who was raised in Hong Kong, but has enjoyed over ten years in the US, where did I belong?... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
Stanford and now University of California. And she has shown and posited a model for happiness that I believe in. This is going to answer the question. And she says that, first of all, happiness is the joy you feel while striving towards... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the third of five children. The family placed a heavy emphasis on the value of good, honest labor; at 18, he became a firefighter to help pay his university expenses. The occupying workers also came from large families, and many had... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
other hand, and I think it's important for everybody to really hear both sides of this: There are only a handful of companies that really make it to large levels. SpaceX is today a $33 billion company, but it wouldn’t take long to cite... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
contrary. "As a manager of people, you should regard this as very good news," Amabile wrote in the Harvard Business Review. "The key to motivation turns out to be largely within your control." By setting clear,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
be driven by market mispricing to undertake activity in a highly cyclical manner, accelerating activity during periods when securities can be readily sold to other parties. While financial economists have largely focused on bank lending,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
Bower and Paine: They don’t have to be led by the CEO, but it sure helps to have role models and encouragement. Having a little top-down support can make a huge difference—access to meeting space for a community effort; a little bit of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
internal strategic resources, many companies continue to have outmoded strategic perspectives. There is a surplus of capitalchasing a scarcity of talented peopleand the knowledge they possess.— Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal In the competitive-strategy... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best Practices The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
should be able to do something like this for the nursing home down the street,” says Hu. Hu’s idea won the HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track in 2012, and the business took off. CarePort, which has a subscription-based View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
had to be licensed in the state in which that image was generated. But the easing of state-level licensure has largely allowed physicians who are licensed in one state to practice in another. The easing of that regulation has, in turn,... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
a platform-based market socially efficient? We analyze a dynamic model where an entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine long-run market outcomes. We find that the answers to these questions depend... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
multi-sided business, its technology offering and early business model, its efforts to shift to a new model based on media distribution, and its chief competitors in that market space. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Harvard’s Kennedy School, argue for serious corporate soul-searching: “As a society, we have bought into a system in which we ask little of corporate leaders beyond the aggressive pursuit of short-term self-interest. For two decades, this View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
getting to a point where we can pass the ball to another person. "If something's running smoothly, and it's ho-hum," Wallace says of her work preferences, "then let somebody else do it. If it's a turnaround, startup, or fire fighting, I'm there." Due View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
program over the last decade, and that’s enabled us to embrace the promise of AI to enhance rather than diminish teaching and learning. When I think of leaders who have imbued a large organization with a sense of humility, I think of... View Details