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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Motors John B. Rogers, Jr., MBA 2007 Jeffrey R. Jones, MBA 2007 Local Motors will design, manufacture, and bring to market innovative, lightweight, efficient cars. These cars will revolutionize not only automobiles, but also the very View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption decision; thus, we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
stage entrepreneurial ventures. Given the inherent uncertainty surrounding a decision to invest in these ventures, prior research has found that experienced investors rely heavily on their investor gut feel—dynamic expertise-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
supply-chain investments to make it possible for the small farmer to produce good-quality milk, transport it, and sell it to the company. This makes sense for the company because it needs fresh, locally produced milk, and for the small... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
like the best way to recover was to get back to school as quickly as possible. I kind of thought there was no option and I think, for many people, work and school are-- anything structured activities-- absolutely key to recovery. To be... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the by-product becomes the primary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
315-060 The Basic LCA Framework No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-055 Restructuring JAL Hideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
the world are trying to reinvent themselves for digital success. Indeed, few strategic problems are as hard as those confronting newspapers—declining print revenues, even greater declines in advertising revenue (mostly due to the loss of classifieds), and a fixed cost... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
Although the Games are also promoted as an exercise in national unity and as justification for urban renewal that would otherwise have been resisted, they take their toll in human costs when old structures and their inhabitants are forced... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
keeps me intimately connected with the product. After each class, I'm always thinking about how my team and I can make the BollyX experience even better. "One structural difference from all my past jobs is that my time spent in Excel and... 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
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
organization, or PMO, and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues brought out in the case include defining the PMO's purpose and mission, the structure and governance of the PMO, and how to successfully implement it in what appears... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18
offer a structural approach to answering this question, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3) product quality to change over time. Applying this approach... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
have suddenly become an alternative investment vehicle pursued by high-end investors and hedge funds. Will this phenomenon last? Time to Sell Those Sports Cards follows a personal trip to market as author... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
positive note, however, healthcare companies were commonly thought to be recession proof and thus might be a sound investment in the event of a down-turning economy. Burnham had to decide if this was the right time for an exit, and if so,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
competitive characteristics on its investment in various type assets, on the profitability of these investments, and on the financial structure of its balance sheet. The case also allows a discussion of (1)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
showed is that caregiving concerns are endemic. They affect roughly 80 percent of the workforce some of the time, most of the time, or all of the time. But the way working relationships have been structured by employers for a century... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
ahead of him—in a recent election, he almost beat a heavily entrenched incumbent. Tony is a veteran, with a Silver Star for bravery in Korea, and an entrepreneur. With his good friend Max, another attorney, he has started a law firm and made large View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
boys and men. For Raymond McGuire , acts of courage include pursuing a career in investment banking at a time when there were no role models who looked like him, and quitting his job to run for mayor of New York City. As the prime... View Details