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Highlights this Week
Research & Ideas: The Money ConnectionUnderstanding VC Networks
Research & Ideas: Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
First Look: Skill vs. luck in entrepreneurship; Friendster case; more
What Do YOU Think? How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
============================== New on the Site Research & Ideas: The Money
ConnectionUnderstanding VC Networks http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5506.html
Venture capital firms often consider investments in companies located far away
or in unfamiliar industries. How do they spot these opportunities and also
reduce risk? It's the power of networks, says Harvard Business School professor
Toby Stuartand understanding how they work in VC is just now starting to be
understood.
Research & Ideas: Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5543.html
It's a fundamental tension many entrepreneurs face, the conflict between
wanting to become rich and wanting to keep control of their new company. Few
can have both. Professor Noam Wasserman discusses his research into the
motivations of entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them.
First Look: Cutting-Edge Faculty Research
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/firstlook/index.html
Why firms hold so much cash ... Crime and punishment in "American Dream"
countries ... Customer metrics that look ahead, not back ... new Friendster
case.
What Do YOU Think? How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5570.html
Online forum OPEN until Tuesday, December 19. A new book by Gregory Clark
identifies "labor quality" as the major enticement for capital flows that lead
to economic prosperity. By defining labor quality in terms of discipline and
attitudes toward work, this argument minimizes the long-term threat of
outsourcing to developed economies, says Jim Heskett. By understanding labor
quality, can we better confront anxieties about outsourcing and immigration?
Most Popular Stories Summing Up: What's to Be Done About Performance
Reviews? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5563.html
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5543.html
Jim Heskett Asks: How Important Is Quality of Labor?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5570.html
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4333.html
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5544.html
Best of Faculty Q&As New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4333.html
Risk-reward. Rising interest rates. Stocks or bonds. The long-term investor has
lots to ponder when setting asset allocation strategy, says HBS professor Luis
M. Viceira. And the answers might not come with "conventional wisdom."
Working Paper Spotlight Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs:
An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5425.html
by Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Baldwin
Pdf available for download. How does a product's design mirror the organization
that develops it, and how does such a dynamic occur? To track the evolution of
one design over time, this exploratory study compared software designs
developed via different modes of organization-open source versus proprietary
development.
Elsewhere at Harvard Business School Strategic Negotiations: Dealmaking for
the Long Term http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/snwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
January 21 - 26, 2007
Strategic Finance for Smaller Businesses
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/sfsbwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
February 18 - 23, 2007
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/lcorwk/index.html
Program for Senior Teams:
February 26 - March 1, 2007
Program for Individual Leaders:
March 11 - 16, 2007
Advanced Management Program: Transforming Proven Leaders into Global
Executives http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/ampwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
March 25 - May 18, 2007
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