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- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
in their venture would be most appropriate for NatuRi's future growth. In addition, the founders had only a short period of time to decide whether or not to accept a Seed and Series A term sheet from a well...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
company's long-term success. And Job's track record is hit or miss, he says. Take Apple's return to investors. Yoffie says that if you invested a dollar in Apple in 1992, it would be worth $.79 today. The S&P 500 over that same time...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regulatory, normative, and cognitive factors in shaping firms' decisions to adopt specific organizational practices, above and beyond their technical efficiency. Similarly, institutional theory emphasizes legitimation processes and the tendency for institutionalized...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
enterprises with that and nobody was really operating at the very high levels of, kind of business intelligence that a lot of the work that was happening in the gig economy, and the freelance economy was very fairly basic and fairly commoditized. And we saw a chance,...
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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209044 Leading Citigroup (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-001 The (A) case describes a series of controversial events and alleged misdeeds that placed Citigroup in the public spotlight and launched...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
(and Class Notes) stand as an ongoing testament that the connections formed at Soldiers Field won’t be broken by time or distance. Les Williams Williams Les Williams readily admits he’s a bundle of contradictions. There’s Williams the...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
time in class discussing how to structure deals and leverage resources you don't actually have - both key issues when we started Stylus," he says. "My goal," Bhide explains, "is to help students make smarter...
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Print View - Course Catalog
some background reading as well as optional readings for students who wish to pursue deeper interests in the topics covered. Course themes will include, among others, resilience; long time frames; diversification; leadership; formal and...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
and we also present a detailed case study on Tomogorō Ono, a key developer of salt production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process of formally institutionalizing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage: sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
laboratory experiments in food service contexts that suggest that the introduction of operational transparency improves service quality and efficiency. The introduction of reciprocal operational transparency contributed to a 22.5% increase in customer-reported quality...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold Military.com to. Within its first...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
behavior; (3) a top-down or laissez-faire style by the leader, which prevents honest conversation about problems; (4) a lack of coordination across businesses, functions, or regions due to poor organizational design; (5) inadequate leadership View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
with insurance provider UnitedHealthcare to test a fixed-payment structure for a select group of head and neck cancer patients. Rather than receiving separate charges for every test, treatment, and appointment, patients in the three-year...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
past decade, I have structured my life in a more "balanced" fashion, making time for family, community volunteerism and leadership (chairing several nonprofits), and corporate board work. While I have...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
coverage of the government's corruption scandals by 0.23 of a front page per month, or 18% of a standard deviation in coverage. The results are robust to the inclusion of newspaper, month, newspaper president, and individual-corruption scandal fixed effects as well as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
series of ecosystems, they urge, with "keystone" companies such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart providing for the health of all who do business with them. What are the best strategies for companies living in these ecosystems? This...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
CEO of Pressed Roots, a dry bar for women of color, was recently featured in a “Black in Business” series on the Dallas Innovates website. Asked what conversations leaders should be having regarding diversity, Gaines said: “This is the...
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