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Daniel Sheyner
is what I want to do." PE PREP The most common question in private equity interviews? "Walk me through your past deals," says Sheyner. An ideal answer shows you know both the facts of the deal and that you have an opinion...
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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...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Faculty Books
choosing group members, establishing norms, and dealing with conflicts to evaluating progress and deciding when it’s time to restructure. Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Cespedes says the students in the course learn to deal with the reality that “selling is always more about the buyer than it is about the seller.” Recalling his own experience as a young entrepreneur, Roberge elaborates: “Like a lot of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
dealing with conflicts of interest, and setting an ethical tone within an organization. 2003 Alumni Achievement Awards James E. Burke (MBA ’49), chairman and CEO emeritus of Johnson & Johnson, where he spent almost forty years helping...
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- 07 Dec 2020
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Lifting The Stigma
few years to apply. He did, receiving his undergraduate degree in 2010 and founding the College-Bound Mentoring Program with his roommate while both were still students. Delle continued to rack up achievements before and after HBS, until a business View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
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The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18
inflation with a devalued currency, despite massive capital inflows and a huge current account deficit. At home, the government has carefully managed between Islamicization, democracy, and secularism. And abroad, it deals with a difficult...
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Anna Secino
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing...
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- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
has to be implemented across a large, distributed organization. "Large firms definitely had some work to do to adopt," says McElheran. "But it seems that the best firms had practices in place to deal with the complexity. The real...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7
communicating with employees were appropriate to its next stage of internal development and external growth. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411077-PDF-ENG Globant Mukti Khaire, Gustavo A. Herrero, and Cintra ScottHarvard Business School Case...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
clearly political content to what we are suggesting," says Bower. "We talk about the need for leaders of companies to develop skill sets that they might not have—a lot of our business leaders have not been brought up to be comfortable in View Details
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by Maggie Starvish
- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
School Case 112-096 In June 2010, Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile services operator, acquired the African assets of Bahrain-based Zain Telecom for $10.7 billion-the largest ever cross-border deal in emerging markets. Bharti's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008
NBG’s offer, they can evaluate given valuations of the bank and analyze why the proposed deal is structured so the Özyeğin retains a stake and buys back the non-Turkish operations. Students can also consider the offer from the perspective...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
There's just no way to isolate the issue from the rest of the environment, the immediate family, the external environment, the prevailing cultural norms. We're talking here about a point of entry into an intervention, as it were—but you can't even define the problem in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
profits later" pitch. Dayton said venture money would flow once the business opportunities become apparent, but deals will be for hundreds of thousands of dollars, not millions. Predictions For Broadband: 2008 In another panel...
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- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor market and the consequences it has...
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
angels asked to change some conditions in a radical way one day prior to the closing. This put us in a delicate cash position, yet we refused to renegotiate, and the deal collapsed. In the end, we were lucky enough to be oversubscribed...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Check In
difficult when I can’t see if someone is smiling or not. I just finished reading Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile, about living in WWII London during the Blitz. They carried on, they figured it out, and they went about their business. People are resilient. We’ll...
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- 26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
qualified to give notes on scripts. Use it the rest of your life.’ I did and still do.” “I have two criteria for our films—heart and humor. We might be OK if we have a very serious drama with a great deal of heart, or a very, very funny...
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