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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
had expected that this would have been handled by a team of consultants, first in developing a blueprint for how an FBC project should be run, and then in rolling out the methodology across the organization. What I found, however, was...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Andy Grove) in which two of the protagonists—two of the greatest business executives in modern times—would be rolling over in their graves over this policy. Since Steve Jobs’ father was a Syrian immigrant, President Trump’s executive...
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by Staff
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707451 CircleLending, Inc. 2006 Harvard Business School Case 206-137 CircleLending, an innovative start-up, offered individuals the ability to set up and manage informal loans...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
concept is very large scale. The lower-tech investments require a great plan from the very beginning to roll things out nationwide. Understand the industry. The first thing that is important to understand is what venture capital is meant...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the processes of the organization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than questioning and constructively rebelling against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. As leaders, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
hypothesized. The takeaway: Humblebragging is annoying. "It's as if you're trying to say something good about yourself, but then you cover it up with something else," Gino says. "And people don't like that." The second study looked at...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
"network effects"—the idea that the value or utility of a product goes up as more people use it. A telephone holds no value if there is only one in the world—but the technology becomes increasingly valuable as more people use...
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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
Many of us are sailing toward retirement with the hope that Social Security, personal savings, and money saved in an employer's 401(k) or 403(b) plan will add up to the magic sum required to enjoy our remaining years in reasonable style....
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- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
organizations involved. But Deflategate isn’t the only issue examined by the case. “What started essentially as an analytics exercise ended up as a much broader analysis of the data, the sport, the NFL, and how it’s organized and how it’s...
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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Harvard City Leadership Initiative, I have met unbelievably innovative leaders whom some of my American colleagues and counterparts could learn from. Even where we should not replicate precisely what they do in different countries and regimes, we do need to View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
the CEO position are significantly less valuable than those in which the founder has given up a degree of control. On average, each additional degree of founder control (i.e., controlling the board and/or the CEO position) reduces the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
address endogeneity concerns, this study shows that contributing firms capture up to 100% more productive value from usage of OSS than their free-riding peers. Furthermore, this paper examines what types of contributions are most...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
contribute to what we call the psychology of price. You can take the very same physical price and break it up into parts, bundle it with other items, ask for payment early, or ask for payment late, and change consumers'' perceptions of...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
what happened to Kaiser. Q: Your HBS colleague, Richard Bohmer, talks favorably about clinics now sprouting up in malls and big chains that offer very basic services at affordable prices. Is that a sample of innovation now starting to...
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- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
brand mix that would be carried. Results from the pilot store (a remodeled hypermarket in Beijing) were encouraging, with revenues and profits up and customers spending more on each visit. The company must decide how quickly to View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
middle class—outweigh the challenges of operating there. And indeed, as embodied by Nigeria's status as a net food importer despite having 80 million hectares of potential agricultural land, the challenges are considerable. Animal feed is excessively expensive, driving...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
where the product can be delivered directly online such as software, travel agencies, or media. Indeed, the digitalization of content paired with widespread adoption of broadband Internet is driving a major shift toward digital distribution. ITunes, set View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Successes and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-165 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Overly detailed contracts leave no room for spontaneous acts of kindness to create goodwill between parties; too-rigid contracts leave parties unable to respond to the unanticipated; and, strangely enough, incentives can end up being just...
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Martha Lagace