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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
profitability. There are at least two antidotes to this scenario. One involves serial acquisitions. But research has suggested that most acquisitions destroy value. This helps explain why the stock of acquiring firms is often discounted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging... View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
toward smaller, younger companies that were still figuring things out. Can you tell us about where you ended up? One area of focus in my job search was companies working on the electrification of vehicles; currently I’m the operations... View Details
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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog
mechanics of setting prices, and pushes students to think critically about a company’s customer advantage in the marketplace and what monetization approach can most effectively capitalize on this advantage, thus helping the firm achieve... View Details
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more traditional career path. The case tracks their search process and highlights the challenges encountered when acquiring a small business. We then learn about different ways to fund a search through five... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
argued that advances in communications technology were increasingly inspiring consumers around the world to want the same things. Therefore, he declared, international companies should cease to act as “multinationals” that customized their products to fit local markets... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree
at a venture capital firm called Clean Energy Ventures here in Boston, which focused on seed and series A investments in energy transition related technologies. These experiences were really helpful in understanding how larger companies... View Details
- 21 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion
President of Auditory Insight, a boutique management consultancy focused exclusively on hearing healthcare. We partner with senior leaders of device and biopharma hearing healthcare companies to develop successful commercialization strategies. We also consult to... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- Profile
Inessa Lurye
build and how to build it," she explains. "It's about breaking a big vision into smaller portions we can execute on a daily basis." To do her work, Inessa frequently draws upon lessons learned at HBS. "The business I'm... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
technology as a strategy rather than just a solution in firms of all kinds. "My work," Nolan writes in the book's preface, "has led me to the conclusion that by their very nature, which is to be permeable and fluid, dot companies have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
student recruiting he did at HBS. Lewis worked at several executive search firms and consulting companies, then worked for two decades at Accenture (formerly Andersen... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
senior partner at the executive search firm Spencer Stuart. He offers advice on generating valuable introductions, nailing interviews, negotiating compensation, cultivating a... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Working PapersA Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa Authors:Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas Author's Abstract Through her efforts to recruit, hire, and develop minority executives at MTN, a South... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
and develop friendships with those outside your class as well." The academic program began early the next day and included presentations by W. Earl Sasser, Jr., the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management and chair of the School's View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and whether and how to integrate them. The most common reasons for making an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
the internal whispers telling her that her real love centered on children and families, however, she moved to Chicago and began a promising career as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett, Inc. "It was a great experience," Small says,... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
Executive MBA programs who had worked in a range of organizational settings. Overall, our analyses demonstrate that influences on the decision to speak up include both stable and situation-specific factors, such that conceptualizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
CEOs typically receive just 6 percent of the $69 billion available in venture capital in the United States, according to the VC research firm VentureOne. In an effort to boost the odds, 23 women took the podium at HBS as part of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace