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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
division. But now, the Development Banking team is contemplating going to the board to take the concept one step further: pro-actively investing in PSL-qualifying activities not as a matter of regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
by 7.5 percent relative to private firms. We interpret this as evidence of investor belief of policy irreversibility, where reforms may reach a stage beyond which future regimes have difficulty reversing those policies. Further analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
King—"Rich and Regal," if you will. This desire is reinforced when they see such prominent Rich and Regal entrepreneurs as Larry Ellison of Oracle Corporation, Marc Benioff of SalesForce.com, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Try as she might, Toyin Shodiya (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022) was just not interested in biology. As a high school student living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., her lack of interest in the subject... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
Chapman Wood, George Westerman, and Charles A. O'Reilly III Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability to explore View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
and his priorities for the coming years. The following is an edited version of his remarks. Roger Thompson: You have deep and long-standing connections to HBS, both as a student and View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
growth. Being listed on the stock exchange does mark a company's value but in this case it was a low mark.— Walter Kuemmerle Kuemmerle fired questions at conference participants on Gray's available options. Should they go public? Doing so... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
the same music download as Apple's iTunes, and at no charge, why have millions of users chosen to pay a fee using Apple's service rather than download for free from p2p networks? A: The choice between p2p... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program
Hall. As we streamed through the entrance, a few conversations began around the room with an extended hand and a smile. “What school do you go to?” (Bowie State University, the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
examples of how each side can help the other overcome them, and develop more general advice on doing so most effectively. As a fuller illustration of a Level Two negotiator helping the other side with its formidable behind-the-table... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
oil and gas industry that you're going to be out of a job, it just means it creates important challenges, but also opportunities for those industries. Just as if you are really... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
“Allowing owners to have more power and influence in corporate board elections seems to be valuable.” In August 2010, the US Securities and Exchange Commission passed Rule 14a-11, also known as the shareholder proxy access rule, which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
entrepreneurship is as old as entrepreneurship itself. At HBS we define entrepreneurship as the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
address: that salespeople promoted innovations; that they acted as brokers of information; and that their activities "embodied the spirit of capitalism in popular culture." Could you elaborate on the... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on by modern biologists. There is conscious... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
economic model. Even a simple time-driven ABC model will fundamentally change the way the company manages its process improvements, its product variety, and its individual customer relationships. Typically, time-driven ABC projects pay... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
are paying hundreds of dollars for a ticket don't want to hear about bridge periods, and neither do board members. We've lost a lot of patience with developmental strategies in recent years. It seems like more and more in our economy, we... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
PublicationsHappy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending Authors:Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton Publication:Simon & Schuster, forthcoming Abstract If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne