… by Amar Bhide Amar Bhide teaches entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School,
where he is associate professor. His last HBR article was “Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Startups” …

What is this mysterious activity we call entrepreneurship? Does success require special traits
and skills or just luck? Can large companies follow their example? What role does venture …

A six-year-old condiment company has attracted loyal customers but has achieved less than
$500,000 in sales. The company’s gross margins can’t cover its overhead or provide …

Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise
their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes. And widespread …

Many observers have warned that the next stage of globalization—the offshoring of research
and development to China and India—threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But …

… Amar Bhide is assistant professor of general management at Harvard Business School. His
last article for HBR was “Why Be Honest if Honesty Doesn’t Pay” with Howard H. Stevenson (…

The seemingly unrelated problems of stock market liquidity and manager-stockholder
contracting are closely intertwined. Active stockholders who reduce agency costs by providing …

… 2 , A Bhide …

Objective To assess systematically the performance of prenatal magnetic resonance
imaging ( MRI ) in diagnosing the presence, degree and topography of disorders of invasive …

Background Women with a history of previous cesarean delivery, presenting with a placenta
previa, have become the largest group with the highest risk for placenta previa accreta. …