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- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Stop Growing — Yours Doesn’t Have To by Matthew S. Olson and Derek van Bever (MBA ’88) (Yale University Press) The authors analyzed the growth experiences of more than 600 Fortune 100 companies over the past fifty years to identify why growth stalls. The top four...
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- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
supply of skilled workers. Since unemployment rates for college graduates are much lower than for non-graduates and average incomes materially higher, more young people would presumably move down the path to economic independence....
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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
instant-message chat volumes (-8.7 percent).” Companies may want to consider locating their knowledge-worker team members strategically. “Our results suggest that employees engaged in knowledge co-production place a strong premium on...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business
skilled at teaching these foundational courses. Understanding the Business World As I looked back at some of the biggest business stories of 2015, I realized just how much I have learned in the last eight months. I can critically evaluate...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
system rooted in the post-WWII economy. It’s a system that’s ripe for innovation and streamlining. Change has come relatively quickly. Social media and digital platforms have “re-intermediated” the connections between students and recent graduates, recruiters, career...
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- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Products German craftsmanship and quality are famous, and according to Fear, German companies generally compete as niche producers, particularly those that manufacture high-quality goods that demand a premium price. In 2004-2005 Germany...
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- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
long-run supply and demand conditions. In the short run, intense competition between private-equity groups may lead to a willingness to pay a premium for certain types of firms (e.g., firms specializing in tools and content for the...
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- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
management. We find a large effect: pre-Reg FD the return premium from school ties was 8.16% per year, while post-Reg FD the return premium was nearly zero and insignificant. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
to Jewish organizational life. Inspired by 30 years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges facing communal life and the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
diagnosis right saves a lot of wasted and unnecessary treatment, so costs go down. Avoiding errors reduces costs. More skilled or less invasive surgery allows the patient to go home quicker, and costs go down. The lowest costs of all...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
venture investors are not needed. For most of its history, Intel's fund has emphasized making passive investments in a wide variety of companies in selected categories, analogous to a mutual fund following an index fund approach. Such a program may place much less of a...
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- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
venture and how you behaved when things didn't go well." History points to the importance of people skills in successful ventures, agreed Sahlman. But what roles do operating experience and technical knowledge play in a firm's...
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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
services. Features that are not valued and therefore are not used. Decreasing price premiums for innovations that historically created value. An overserved customer will say, "Sure, I will take the next version of your product, I...
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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
partner of Gobi Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in China, must decide how to manage his firm's largest investment after the departure of the CEO. Tom has temporarily stepped in as CEO, but finding a replacement with the necessary technical and language...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
are, what they know, how you hire, and how you develop their skills and attitudes over time. Performance management practices, including compensation, incentives, values, control systems, and performance reviews (probably the most...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Oakland to inquire about franchise opportunities. Founded during the Depression by William Dreyer and Joseph Edy, Dreyer’s had established a Bay Area reputation for premium quality and inventiveness, dating back to the debut of its Rocky...
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- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
thus serve three distinct roles. First, they help students develop diagnostic skills in a world where markets and technologies are constantly changing. "The purpose of business education," a business-school professor noted more...
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by David A. Garvin
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
to 30 engineers. This initiative was very successful, but the firm then found itself with a lack of leadership skills at all levels of the organization to manage a company of a much larger size, growing by a factor of 10 over 10 years....
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Sean Silverthorne