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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
financial value. Yet scholars have recently shown that entrepreneurial activity by users is more widespread than previously believed. We present data and statistics documenting the prevalence, technological impact, and economic impact of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
And by adding more customers, MasterCard potentially could also grow its bottom line. Financial inclusion raised questions for MasterCard. Was the management time and attention well spent given the low returns expected from adding millions of mostly very poor...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
right prices, and build and manage a multichannel approach. Sales Management That Works will help sales managers build a great sales team, create an optimal strategy, and steer clear of hype and fads. Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
maintaining a vibrant organization requires cultivating an environment that supports risk taking. Asking participants to recall situations in which their organizations succeeded and failed at being creative, Amabile then invited the women...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
volunteers, and that citizens took on so much responsibility—social entrepreneurs were another manifestation of America's entrepreneurial spirit. That's a strength we can mobilize at home and abroad. Citizen diplomats are all the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
undertaking that could be worked on as a Holy Grail,” says Daniel J. Holland (MBA ’62), an ARD staffer in the late 1960s. “But he wouldn’t write a check until all the risks were understood.” Creating a Model for Venture Capital Success...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
that corporate insiders' excess control rights aggravate the potential risks of insider expropriation of outside investors and thereby increase firms' external finance constraints. Cases & Course Materials Woolf Farming and Processing...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
collection of data, engage more deeply and effectively with all their stakeholders, and lower reputational risk through a high level of transparency. Given the importance of sustainability, I think companies have an ethical obligation to...
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by Staff
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Web-based technologies. Recent HBS research has focused on a number of companies led by these pioneering senior executives. The profiles that follow shed some light on the challenges they face and reveal the extent to which the View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
management, risk management for global investment, and negotiation and deal structuring. He also served in a variety of leadership roles: as chair of the Finance unit (1986–88); as senior associate dean, director of Faculty Planning...
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- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
entrepreneurial enterprises. And yet they are subject to exactly the same rules and conditions as large companies. A second example. There has been a lot of discussion about stock options and expensing them through regulatory action and...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
make the strategy stronger, and then having the buy-in that leads to execution.” Pathipati: “I constantly use takeaways from HBS. The investing, finance, and strategy classes helped me develop the pattern recognition to identify opportunities and View Details
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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
the body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the literature has become increasingly fragmented. We review the literature on entrepreneurs’ mobilization of resources, spanning human, social, financial,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
conglomerate Tata Group and Envision, an entrepreneurial alternative energy company based in China-and found significant commonalities. These three companies demonstrate the essential attributes of a game-changing organization: they are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
The Fall of Enron Harvard Business School Case 109-039 The case traces the rise of Enron, covering the company's business innovations, personnel management, and risk management processes. It then examines the company's dramatic fall...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes After HBS, DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010) immediately launched a startup: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a credit-testing firm for small businesses in emerging markets. But after...
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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
auditor, we identify structural contingencies in the institutional environment and in program design under which codes and monitoring are more likely to be associated with improvements in working conditions. At the institutional level, suppliers improve more when they...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to reinvent themselves in operations,...
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