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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
thickening of the left-hand tail of the firm-size distribution suggesting a significant increase in the number of small firms. However, the dominance and growth of large incumbents remains unchallenged....
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Sean Silverthorne
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Foreign banks play large roles in the US domestic funding market. However, unlike domestic banks, which are funded by insured deposits, these institutions are funded either by uninsured domestic commercial...
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- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
their idea, but a little humility and a lot of discovery work can determine whether there’s a winning solution and save a lot of wasted time and money building the wrong thing. If fundraising is also a consideration, being able to have real data View Details
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by Julia Austin
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
biased policing, have contributed to this trend. For Miller’s parents, money was tight, but their small row house in West Philadelphia was a happy, loving, and supportive home for Larry and his seven siblings. In elementary school, Miller...
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- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Abstract Are the doors of access open equally for all in business? Are talent and hard work really enough to make it to the top? As much as we would like to believe in the American meritocracy, an elusive class system exists where a small...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Business & Environment
steps necessary for more resilient companies and societies. For notes and resources visit; climaterising.org How Insurance Companies are Addressing Climate Risks 10 APR 2024 | Climate Rising This episode in our adaptation series focuses...
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- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
Sweden has long seemed like a social-welfare capitalist dream come true, where companies and labor unions collaborate in harmony with government support. Swedish citizens are among the wealthiest in the world, and they enjoy publicly provided health View Details
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by Lane Lambert
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
hours a week to cover expenses, but still accumulated a large amount of debt, a sum that increased while he earned his MBA. Bachelor began saving very early for his children's college education so they would not experience the same...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
hospital business and a health insurance business, management decided to split the businesses apart through a corporate spin-off because it realized the businesses were strategically incompatible—the customers of one business were...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
sustainability disclosure, and alternative ways of measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's environmental or social impact leads a firm to...
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- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
people to hire to run them so once the flywheel is moving and cash is in hand, they can get momentum quickly. “Earlier in my career, I hired a small team within a large corporation that was scrappy and had...
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by Julia B. Austin
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
their desires to help make their organizations more effective and responsive. I met many individuals with great ideas and insights working in large organizations that seemed to be enacting policies or producing products that didn't...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries...
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- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American...
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- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
which can be large in some cases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-054.pdf The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini,...
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Martha Lagace
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Professor Eisenmann discussed patterns that explain a large fraction of these failures and what entrepreneurs can do to anticipate patterns and reduce mortality risk. Participants learned how founders can decide whether to pull the plug...
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- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
PublicationsThe Power of Small Wins Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
business model for small independents is often elusive. So when a crisis of the magnitude of the COVID-19 global pandemic forces restaurants to close, and their revenue drops to zero overnight, things get particularly dire. Unlike the...
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
in which agents recruited by a public health organization to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
2020. With Catherine Thomas. How Has COVID-19 Affected Health Insurance Offered by Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence from a Survey, NEJM Catalyst, 2020. With Leemore S. Dafny, Yin Wei Soon, and...
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