Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

enough to make an intervention comment at a UN policy action session on EV charging, a subject I’m passionate about. For students attending COP in the future, I would encourage you to clearly define what you want to achieve through COP28... View Details

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

agencies overseeing banks and lending, yet issues relevant to small-business lending—such as disclosure rules—have often fallen through the cracks. For example, if you are a consumer and you buy a truck, all costs and financing fees must... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

expertise, packaging your expertise and striking a successful deal. The lessons will be most useful to anyone entering today’s labor market, entrepreneurs starting new ventures, and investors. Students will develop their strategy through... View Details

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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

already started to build. The course will then push you to develop your idea through writing and experimentation. On the writing front, you will be pushed to clearly articulate the problem you are solving, outline a solution, and describe... View Details

24 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

these crafts were especially nimble in rough water. In the early 1970s, other kayakers began asking these "user innovators" to create equipment for them—and the rodeo kayaking industry was born. Since then, rodeo kayaks have gone View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

number of projects for hospital systems and pharmacies, then, inspired by the opportunity to explore health in a larger context, joined Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. An international organization affiliated with WHO and UNICEF, Gavi provides vaccines to the poorest... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020

point. “Global brands like Zara sell their products in the Middle East through franchisors, so garments can cost twice as much as in the United States,” he explains. “We use skilled artisans right in Lebanon—no intermediaries.” “In the... View Details

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

23 Feb 2018
Blog Post

How to thrive as an Introvert at HBS

Diamond Richardson is a first-year student at HBS (class of 2019). She is the co-founder of Thrive, a community designed to support women of color who are pursuing MBAs and careers in business and tech. Here, Diamond shares her experience and tips for future students... View Details

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

guaranteed income. And because that objective filtered right through the scheme, members thought of their benefits in those terms. Ask a member what her pension is worth and she'll reply with an income figure: "two-thirds of my final... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Dec 2016
News

The Story Behind the Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) is a journalist and author of two New York Times best selling books. She was a political reporter and a TV producer in DC before coming to HBS, and started writing about... View Details

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

individuals that are good representations of different careers. We group them all together, and when we have enough of those, we will build a career profile. So when we have enough consultants go through it, then we'll build a consulting... View Details

03 Aug 2022
News

Hungry for Change

figure out other ways to get it to them.” Today, Sun & Swell’s sales come principally through website and wholesale channels that can accommodate the products’ shorter shelf life, including corporate offices and coffee shops. The product... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

Fans of the television show Mad Men are well acquainted with the mystique of the advertising business, circa 1960s, where relationships were consummated over martinis and campaigns fashioned through the wizardry of creative director Don... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

North-South freight transport suggest that if the cartel were broken, railroads would have passed through 50% of their cost savings from standardization, generating a 10% increase in trade on the sampled routes. The results demonstrate... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

company started out in 1984 making teapot polish in western China, and through a succession of acquisitions, it is now the 234th-largest company in the world. ChemChina recently spent $43 billion to acquire the Swiss seed giant Syngenta,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
Case

Technical Data Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman

Describes a decision confronting the president of a small company about selling some or all of the shares in his company to another firm. Technical Data Corp. provides analytical services to professional bond market traders over a system of computer terminals operated... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Valuation; Negotiation Tactics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Information Industry; Service Industry

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08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how US branch-banking deregulations affected the entry and exit of firms in the non-financial sector using establishment-level data... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

crisis as a disrupter to the status quo and look for areas of pain. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading your company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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