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- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
2003. He is now active mentoring young entrepreneurs, investing in companies, and painting. The interview is part of the Creating Emerging Markets series sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, in which business leaders in...
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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
firms had “slack,” but not through changing investments or accruals. These incentives are driven by the prestige associated with the index rather than capital market benefits. Back-of-envelope estimates suggest that the index accounted...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
to their reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of eCW, who treated each other like an extended family, invested years of...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
trading partners were also winners, receiving excellent value in the goods they imported from Japan. Other nations, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, as well as Hong Kong, have followed Japan's example with excellent results....
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by Paul R. Lawrence
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
require expanding beyond Atlanta. NeuroLaunch opened additional locations in Boston and San Francisco last summer, and the entrepreneurs for its next batch of investments will meet in all three places. NeuroLaunch is also raising...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Summa was developed under a new private equity model that sought to “future-proof” businesses by focusing on long-term value creation and growth, in addition to traditional private equity practices of implementing best practices and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
green infrastructure investment firm Generate Capital, Janice saw an opportunity. The San Francisco-based company has said publicly that it has raised some $10 billion in funding, much of it from pension funds in Australia, Sweden and the...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
work he makes a resource allocation decision at the operating level—how to allocate his time and attention—which de facto keeps the investment from happening, even though financial resources have been procured. So this is a case where the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
Today's most successful leaders are focusing on sustaining superior performance by aligning people around mission and values and empowering leaders at all levels, while serving customers and collaborating throughout the organization. Over...
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by Bill George
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
plants, cities for the workers, and so on. Massive investment — rather than consumption — drove the economy. Consumption in China is still only about a third of GDP versus some 70-odd percent in the developed markets. China kept buying...
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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
have suddenly become an alternative investment vehicle pursued by high-end investors and hedge funds. Will this phenomenon last? Time to Sell Those Sports Cards follows a personal trip to market as author John Schwarz turns a childhood...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
one-cup feedings per day costs $20.95 — more than most grocery brands but a manageable sum for customers who value the convenience of automatic shipments that make taking care of the family dog as easy as peeling the top off a SmartPak....
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
essential steps toward achieving cyber security. Such actions include assessing the value of the firm’s vital information, the risks to it, and the appropriate degree of accessibility and protection it warrants. There should be regular,...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
(MBA 2011). This year, the NextGen Angels, led by president Brett Gibson (MBA 2011), has invested further in its big idea: launching angel groups in New York (run by Kelsey Morgan [HBS 2011]), Chicago, Boston and Austin, growing to more...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
survey of HBS alumnae from the Classes of 1981, 1986, and 1991 indicates that only 38 percent of the respondents are currently working full-time. However, other findings from the survey suggest that a growing number of these former View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in real estate. With Bill Poorvu, a...
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- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Business School Case 217-062 The U-Turns of National Truck Stops Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (NTS) as a senior member of Oaktree Capital Management’s...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
analyze and critique, and, therefore, the designers of society’s big data infrastructure, whether human or machines, play an unacknowledged legislative function of great consequence. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54683 forthcoming...
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Dina Gerdeman