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- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
business." "The statistics are correct," said Raj Kapoor (HBS MBA '96), managing director at Mayfield, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. "It's an extremely hit-driven business that's becoming more...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Readers also benefitted when, in 2008, we began to publish HBS faculty working papers—often the first expressions of emerging ideas on the cutting edge of management research. The most popular paper looks at the dark side of goal-setting,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs have an incredible backstop of management experience and wisdom available to them that, too often, they ignore. Why don’t startup founders make more use of their investors? Many entrepreneurs are hesitant to ask advice from...
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by Julia Austin
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
something that is conventional wisdom: VCs are investing in the management team, not the business idea. PG: This debate has been going on in academic circles for a long time: How much is the jockey, the team, versus how much is the horse,...
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April White
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant institution. To meet him, it was going...
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- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
pricing and the merits of billing over time. Also, see an excerpt from a recent Harvard Business Review article by Gourville and collaborator Dilip Soman. Mahoney: What are some first steps managers can take once they have decided to...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
alumnus who went on to earn his doctoral degree and to teach entrepreneurship at HBS. “Distinguish between ideas that only rise to the level of ‘nice to have,’ versus things that people really need or greatly want.” Especially in the cases of younger or View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
Now CMO of the 1,600-employee company, which provides crowdsourced reviews of local home-service providers, Hicks maintains the enthusiasm she had as a first-time entrepreneur: “If you’re excited about what you’re doing, it’s contagious.”...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic...
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Garry Emmons
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges. The book covers the company's strategies and provides compelling evidence of its decision making, marketing, brand management, innovation, acquisition strategies,...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
are the most and least value-added board activities?"; "How do you manage the board?"; "How does board composition change over time?"; "What were your biggest surprises about boards?"; and "What...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
vacant. "The country stops. The days that Brazil plays, it will be a national holiday," Sender says. This year, though, Sender won't have much time to celebrate. As CEO of TAM Airlines, Brazil's largest, she'll be managing operations at...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
giving first-time offenders, particularly our youth, a second chance at righting their wrongs,” says Huntsman. And there’s the bottom line to consider as well. “All told, it can cost our communities anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 to...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Abstract This paper presents evidence of performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
possibility. “Two-thirds of the world population’s staple diet includes rice,” she notes. But there’s perhaps an even greater opening here: Andrew D. Ive (MBA 1997), former managing director of the Food-X accelerator and founder of Big...
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and screen investments Managing growth Evaluating a portfolio Pro-rata investing’s pros and cons Creating a new firm and fundraising for a first-time fund Compensation and control within a firm Succession...
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