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- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
It might be hard for the ordinary business owner or consumer to imagine having "too much" money. But that's exactly where the venture capital industry finds itself: with too much money available for the number of emerging...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Education and Training at ServiceNow, the cloud software firm. The company’s approach to training factored into its strong showing in the 2023 American Opportunity Index. The Index, produced by our Managing the Future of Work Project at Harvard Business School and our...
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- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
spoke about how glass ceilings don't apply to black women—when they look up, they see a concrete wall. And she argued for another conference on changing academic roles, to combat what she sees as fear among more junior professors to...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
thrilling as that news is, huge challenges remain to make a meaningful dent in the transportation sector’s CO2 emissions. "I have cut the cord with gas guzzlers. I have two electric vehicles!"– Erika MyersErika Myers’ professional glass...
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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
corporate responses were not homogeneous. There were major variations between individual managers, companies, industrial sectors, and national business systems. This working paper supports this reinterpretation by examining the case of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction....
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech,...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
it is also surprisingly tiring. At the end of the day, it is a relief to get to our hotel and be greeted with damp facecloths and a cold glass of juice. The accommodations offer a combination of slower-paced, relaxed African atmosphere...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
he made in the food industry were equally discouraging. “They told me I was crazy, that Jeannette was dead, that near the end they had been producing the worst madeleines in France. To restart production and change its image at the same...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
right industry and time to start new ventures. Entrepreneurs with demonstrated market timing skill are also more likely to outperform industry peers in their subsequent ventures. This is consistent with the...
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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Layered Silicate Biopolymer Nanocomposites Author:Satish V. Joshi Publication:Journal of Industrial Ecology (forthcoming) Abstract Recent developments in nanotechnology, especially in the area of nanoclay composites, are improving the...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Guillaume and Wendy Perben (MBA 2002) Children: Jasmine (6); Julien (4) Wendy’s marketing career has involved travel all over the world. Now based in Switzerland, she and her husband have recently launched Unity in Glass Europe, which...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
submitted. Seeking answers from the crowd may be more important than ever. Even as the use of data science is expanding, we face a shortage of 1.8 million data scientists. “There’s a lot of competition for data science talent,” Lakhani said, with medical schools,...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Vision: Clearly Different? Ohio-based optical retailer Pearle Vision, part of the vertically integrated Italian eyewear group Luxottica, sold glasses and offered in-store eye exams. Once the largest U.S. optical retailer, Pearle Vision,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Globalization of Markets” (1983). With nearly 900,000 reprints sold to date, “Marketing Myopia” posed a question that reverberates nearly fifty years later: “What business are you really in?” “An industry begins with the customer and his...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
distress about being regularly on the outside of the workforce looking in. And that’s a human condition that isn’t associated with any rational labor market.Kerr: Yeah, it’s tough. As you think about the industry space—you have...
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