Filter Results
:
(528)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (528)
- Faculty Publications (254)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (528)
- Faculty Publications (254)
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Stages of Innovation Through the lens of biopharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself in response to the transformation of the CRO sector from a small, secondary View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
this new stream of research, which focuses on two related but distinct themes. The earliest theme to be explored, in a literature dating from the 1990s, is the story of how and why some conventional industries sought to become less...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
opportunity, marshaling of required resources, exploitation of opportunity, and harvesting." In other words, "entrepreneurship" is a way of managing that occurs in organizations large or small, youthful or experienced. Underpinning...
View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
per capita. MSP's diversified base of industry clusters had enabled the region to adapt to economic downturns and an exodus of major corporate headquarters, earning it the accolade "Minnesota...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Review] Global Business over Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, emerging out of View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
Harvard Business School, "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century." The Summit included many industries and sectors that do not often appear together, and discussions emphasized the perspective of...
View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
redefining productivity in the value chain, and building supportive industry clusters at the company's locations. A number of companies known for their hard-nosed approach to business—including GE, Wal-Mart,...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Marshall as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, five African American students arrived at HBS. What they encountered—a predominantly white, male campus—seemed out of step for the times and the liberal Northeast. Their deep...
View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
a sovereign default may affect the economy. 2017 Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy By: Jones, G. Abstract—This study examines the geography of the global wind energy View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Penelope RossanoHarvard Business School Case 411-081 This case is about the establishment, growth, and direction of the Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park (Zhangjiang Park), which is located in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai. Considered to be one of the most competitive...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
James Heppelmann looked at how this shift is changing the structure of industries and forcing firms to rethink their strategies. In this companion article, the authors look at the effects inside firms, examining the impact that smart,...
View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
the world. Handholding and Strong Medicine: HBS and the Consulting Industry As a young lawyer with degrees from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, Marvin Bower (MBA '30) believed that a new kind of professional...
View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
of spiraling expectations in motion," Bussgang said, "When you get back home, after flying coach and staying in the Holiday Inn, you sweat like hell" to make it all come true. By mid-year, UPromise's 70 employees sprawled across a floor of open spaces...
View Details
Keywords:
by John S. Rosenberg
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and can control their destiny using the analytical tools of...
View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
somewhere to stay. Clustering created positive externalities drawing new entrepreneurs into the industry who could also learn from knowledge spillovers. There were downsides to the new industry. The creation...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of...
View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
cross-state spillovers or business-stealing from one state to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
its members in several prolonged, tightly clustered sessions, or (2) path-clearing by helping a team address a persistent deficit via briefer, intermittent sessions throughout a project's life. We present a model theorizing these...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne