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  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

technology. Private capital flows—debt finance, equity capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI)—became larger than current and past official capital flows. This new era of foreign capital mobility has also been characterized by low... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

mobilize a team and create a vision to tackle issues that are chronically unaddressed but deeply important. They are the neglected but pivotal issues. Typically when you decide to address one of these issues, it ends up in one of two... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

MyTime Ethan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco–based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime’s first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

citizens’ service requests—such as potholes and broken streetlamps—and efforts by city government to address them became more trusting and supportive of government. Study 3 (N=21,986) was a natural experiment using data from a mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

venture track, Sana Care wins with its low-cost mobile technology solution to performing cardiac diagnostic services in emerging markets. With trophies hoisted and handshakes all around, another contest comes to a close. A winning... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best-regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because they counter a cherry-picking effect that lowers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

social networks shape the emergence and development of nascent ventures. Scholars have argued that founders' and firms' networks influence innovation and the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities, as well as facilitate the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

The Best-Laid Plans

Medical (a minimally invasive device for the extraction of bone graft during spinal fusion procedures) are both awarded top honors in the business venture track. In the social venture track, Sana Care wins with its low-cost mobile... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

An Environmental Epiphany

we don't take care of this planet, the planet can't take care of us. I think there are two lessons from that. The first one is, take time for reflection. As leaders, we are so busy and we have so many responsibilities. It is hard and it's often, not common to turn off... View Details
  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
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  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

credentializing strategies (Power, 1992); they mobilized and drew on different cultural resources to construct the reliability of their techniques and to discredit and "minoritize" the others. This credibility contest was won by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

This growth differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

surprisingly agile with a modest amount of time. The epicenter of inventive and entrepreneurial activity is quite mobile as it is built around people and their interactions, rather than a fixed natural resource like a coal mine or great... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

discounts and Amazon encouraged consumers to compare prices using smart phones, Best Buy was becoming a showroom for lower cost retail models. International expansion was struggling and domestic sales of digital televisions were cooling. Although the popularity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

sensitive ethical issues because of how their concerns will be received. So how can a person do so effectively in ways that will enable others to listen and that will mobilize them to respond constructively? Andy is currently working on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Currently, Thenmozhi is the Executive Director of Equality Labs, which she co-founded. Equality Labs is the largest Dalit civil rights organization working to empower caste-oppressed people in the US and globally. Through her work at Equality Labs, Thenmozhi has View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Screen Saver

comfort and privacy of your own home, and enjoy. And that's just the start, as the "anywhere, anytime" push to view movies and other content on mobile devices continues to grow. According to one Cisco report, smartphone video viewing will... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

federal prosecutors declared us a criminal enterprise? I was sick as I notified our investors and briefed our board. We mobilized an attorney to the East Coast. The investor group met as scheduled the next day, and at one point, they... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios