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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
access capital” Historically, this segment of the market has been small compared to the $700 billion in small business bank credit assets. But since the onset of the financial crisis, and particularly during the economic recovery, there...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
locations begins to dry up? In 1986, a group of social entrepreneurs reimagined education in India, developing a low-cost, "one-teacher school" model to provide educational access in regions that had proven cost prohibitive for government...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
of geographic space in establishing networks." The Vital Network Venture capital shares some of the same qualities as the life sciences industry in terms of the crucial role played by networks, Stuart says. "Networks are...
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- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to tackle important technological and business problems. Lakhani points to innovation contests that have solved a wide variety of major challenges from technology for civilian space...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
improvisation to viable ways of operating that can function indefinitely. Neither management scholars nor health care providers have access to an off-the-shelf solution for how to do this. But through a collaborative approach, we may be...
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by Danielle Kost
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
selling advertising space on the back of the envelopes. It's one example of how Chinese companies are looking at their own environment and finding interesting opportunities that someone in the United States wouldn't even consider."...
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
terms of the proposed JV, Merck would pay Bayer $1 billion upfront for access to their pipeline of drugs and could pay up to another $1.2 billion in contingent payments based on actual sales. Alternatively, the Bayer team could hold fast...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
advertising of marijuana, retail storefronts in Denver, Vail, and other ski towns have become the marketing battleground—featuring attractive sales staff in quality retail spaces in prime locations for foot traffic, all of which drives up...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
2005, the fate of the European Constitution is in jeopardy. Ten new accession countries have just joined the EU, with Turkey in the beginning stages of the accession process. New member states and additional...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717445-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-446 AKB48: Going Global? (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717446-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-062 ISRO:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
social networks involves selling access to members based on their personal information. Subscription and freemium models get talked about, but even Wikipedia can't make such models work. Q: So what fate does Ello face? Any advice for...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
located across the street. In fact, the argument goes, having a physical store may prove to be a liability, burdening the conventional retailer with unnecessary overhead. In theory, that may be true. But in practice, it's false. The constraints of time and View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
level of its access to resources, identify and seize growth opportunities. Know Your Customers' Mindsets—intimately Innovation comes in two varieties: technology-push and customer-pull. Technology-push—introducing new products based on...
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- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
of the internet involves deciphering a complicated landscape. Source: Wavebreakmedia With the benefit of fifteen years worth of hindsight, it is evident that Speed Trap, when looking ahead, had a profound status quo bias. The book did anticipate that broadband and...
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- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
accessing Yelp data and running experiments, with the goal of producing managerially relevant academic research with the freedom to publish it. Example of a Yelp ad for a restaurant Restaurants were given free advertising View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
less risky than value at long horizons for equity-only investors. Long-horizon aggressive investors who have access to bills and bonds increase their allocation to both value stocks and growth stocks at long horizons, but they do not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opponents. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-091_6caacd58-20c1-4257-9be5-204972ad4b4c.pdf Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
the International Space Station! We have learned that almost any technical challenge can benefit from having an open innovation approach. The key is to develop a problem statement that can be accessible and...
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- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
suboptimal, and they used these insights to start developing their own solutions. It was a real privilege when a Big 4 audit firm that participated in my research gave me direct access to its clients. Across an array of clients I...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
examine the firm's choice of business model between the proprietary model (where all software modules are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are open source), and the mixed source model (where some—but not all—modules are open). When a module is...
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Sean Silverthorne