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- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
When Ray Kusisto (MBA 1986) graduated from Harvard Business School, he knew he had been part of a unique experience. “I still feel that way,” says Kusisto, now CEO of Ortho NorthEast, the premier orthopedic clinic and specialty center in...
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- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
one has long been the burning question for clients and their agencies," says Alvin J. Silk, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. "Hence the famous...
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- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological tools and data to steer capital...
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- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
companies have been financed during previous downturns in the venture capital market. Entrepreneurs should not necessarily abandon all hope. Venture capitalists still have many, many billions to invest, so well crafted business plans can...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
way to structure an institution that performs those functions?" The spirit of it is to try to devise a way of thinking about institutional change in an organized way in the global financial system. We're still at an early stage in this,...
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- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of playing in a deal-driven industry....
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- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
of micro and macroeconomics was one of the things I was most looking forward to about business school. I had heard that HBS did a great job of supporting people like me in getting up to speed quickly in these subjects through...
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- September 1994 (Revised September 1994)
- Case
Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000
By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard C. Wei
In the early 1990s, Acer, Inc. set two goals: to be a top-five PC company worldwide in 1995 and to be a global consortium of companies by the year 2000. The company identified potential obstacles concerning capital, image, number of experienced international managers,...
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Mission and Purpose;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Organizational Structure;
Global Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Experience and Expertise;
Marketing Strategy;
Production;
Rank and Position;
Business Strategy;
Capital;
Computer Industry;
Japan
Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard C. Wei. "Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000." Harvard Business School Case 495-001, September 1994. (Revised September 1994.)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
being active participants. All forms of illicit financial flows are assisted by a global structure that comprises 72 tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, millions of disguised corporations, anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
Ademosu, (GMP 14, 2013), Managing Director and CEO of Credit Direct Limited. Ademosu led the team that launched Credit Direct Limited, the first and largest non-bank structured consumer lending business in...
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Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources to Consider Before You Arrive at HBS
before. Others have worked with coaches or had other similar support structures in place in college or through their previous employer. Regardless of your past experience, becoming familiar with this resource and preparing for the...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
agenda of how we carry out our research. The papers presented will be our vehicle for discussing academic decisions, just as case studies are a vehicle for advancing our understanding of business decisions." The conference allowed...
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- Profile
Rachel Silverstein
classical training in corporate finance could bring a lot of value – in structure and strategy – to a startup." Rachel's hunch was right, and she proceeded to work for two different startups in the food and beverage and vacation...
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- Blog
Reinventing the GMP Experience
Attending a program at Harvard Business School Executive Education requires stepping away from responsibilities—both in the office and at home—to fully immerse yourself in the learning experience. Recognizing that this can be particularly...
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- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
contributed to the financial turmoil that followed. This performance has come under tremendous scrutiny by lawmakers and regulators, who are debating ways to reform the ratings industry. One prominent suggestion: increased competition. But recent research from Harvard...
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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman Abstract—The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in particular were attracted to the topic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
these two Executive Education programs at the same time? (JS): Bracken has had an accelerated career path compared to my career process. It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted to do, but he was buying and selling businesses...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss...
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Managing Human Capital - Course Catalog
be the source of sustainable competitive advantage for organizations and for individual leaders within them. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage other people to produce superior business results...
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- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is...
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