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Buying a Small Business Pt2: Search funds (For HBS Alumni)
Would you point me to some guides and best practices related to search funds? You may begin with the following: Search Funds – a website by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Resources...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
“This was an idea that probably wasn’t going to be well received by the mainstream philanthropy world but had really big potential,” he recalls. A Princeton University study of GiveDirectly’s efforts is an early measure of that potential....
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April White
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The Realities Facing Female Founders,”...
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Margie Kelley
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Brooke Boyarsky
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I felt that I had a lot to learn. I knew that the cases and skills taught at HBS would give me the foundation to be an effective general manager, and the case study method at HBS would...
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- 25 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Africa Business Club
awareness in the HBS community about investment and other business opportunities on the continent with the aim of creating more ventures and deals in Africa. Integrate the coverage of African countries and businesses into the HBS curriculum through the development of...
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Jeremy King
As an undergraduate, Jeremy King pursued a degree in biology, studying ecology, genetics and animal behavior. Though he considered medicine a career, he found himself working with a very different animal. "I interned in the more...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
participate in a panel discussion with seven leaders in the field of humanitarian relief and development was handed a packet of oral-rehydration salts. The January 15 panel, one of a series of presentations in the School's "Rising to the...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS....
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
kinds of health care innovations: consumer-focused, technology-commercializing, and cost-controllers. Students present their ideas for innovative health care business models for feedback from their classmates.The second module discusses case View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Economics has lately “wandered” from its traditional study of phenomena such as business cycles and is now about commoditization, incentives, and “principles by which people make decisions,” declared Harvard government professor and...
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
policy and regulation as an important factor that often shapes their decisions. The course is divided into three modules. In the first module, we’ll study the business of banking. Banks are worth studying...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
leaders established a board that included McKinsey managing partner Rajat K. Gupta (MBA '73), whose firm provided a pro bono study of the issue. "When they realized the extent of our experience in such matters," Cavanagh says, "they asked...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
authors propose that a process emphasizing learning and adaptation is the key to successful innovation in this emerging age. To understand the procedures required for product evolution in these new circumstances, the researchers studied...
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Judith A. Ross
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply...
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- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? Authors:Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr Abstract Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
Detroit, and even the student whose idea it was to put solar panels on the roof of Shad,” he notes. Cronin is the cofounder and managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm with offices on both US coasts and over $3 billion...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
Advertising can be good for you! Sounds fishy to the average consumer, but it's implied by conclusions from research by HBS associate professor Bharat Anand and his colleague, Ron Shachar, of Tel Aviv University. The pair began by View Details
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Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
(Michael Hemment) Maddie may be HBS’s most popular study partner. The sweet-tempered therapy dog makes semiannual visits to Baker Library to provide much-needed stress relief during finals. Last December, an estimated 80 students and...
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- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
Do women negotiate differently from men? If yes, how much of a difference is there? For a long time, according to Hannah Riley, a doctoral candidate at HBS who has studied the subject, the answer was "'not much.'" Riley, along...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Exploring Cleantech at HBS
and Westrek. The Africa Business Conference has an excellent cleantech panel every year, and Westrek often includes visits to Bay Area cleantech companies. 2. Be proactive on (and off) campus Consider organizing an event for the annual...
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