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- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
discussing work when we connect outside of the office”. This may seem like a lot to manage, but the time investment should result in team members better adjusting to the growing separation between them and the founders and having less... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
do their job for free. No tycoon, no matter how loaded, civic-minded, and/or self-medicated, will bankroll meaningful newsgathering — and all its bureaus, labor relations, and, yes, office supplies — just for giggles. And without View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
find legal advice at low prices. Lexoo had recently invested in a new vertical focused on larger companies. The latter had more repeated business and the value of their jobs was higher. Lexoo could become their “go-to” place across a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
allows many people to search for and retrieve codified knowledge without having to contact the person who originally developed it. That opens up the possibility of achieving scale in knowledge reuse and thus of growing the business. Take the example of Randall Love, a... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of entry barriers against large stores. Instead of simply reducing the number of new large stores entering a market, the entry barriers created the incentive for large retail chains to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
some $130 million each to join the major-league fraternity. Since these teams will largely consist of players existing clubs deemed expendable, backers can have few illusions that their investment will be rewarded - on the field or at the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
know we have the capability in McHenry to fix any problem and make that product work.” CGM has some twenty full-time U.S. employees. Although the global recession brought about downsizing at the company in 2009, it was also an opportunity to View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
Capital IQ database, fewer than 6 percent achieved more than $10 million in revenues by 2010, and fewer than 2 percent grew to more than $50 million. The percentages are worse for US and international companies founded in years since 2000. The increase in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
capital in Latin America. Chu still runs Pegasus but also joined HBS in 2003. His courses include "Effective Leadership of Social Enterprise" and "New Opportunities in Emerging Markets," the latter about managing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
to be able to respond quickly, reliably, flexibly, and adaptively when troubles arise? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311105-PDF-ENG Yale University Investments Office: February 2011 Josh Lerner and Ann... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBerkshire Partners: Purchase of Rival Company (A) Harvard Business School Case 208-023 Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm in Boston, was pleased with their recent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
But that still represents only a tiny fraction of the thousands of terawatt-hours the WPTO predicts could be generated by tidal and wave technology in the United States, where investment in emerging marine-energy tech lags far behind that... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
Blakeman says. A pitch to the right person at the right time at a bar led to a $100,000 angel investment. Diversifying his business, Blakeman started to work with prisons to put his search tools into the hands of inmates before their... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
constellations to ground station networks of satellite dishes, to new thrusters on satellites to asteroid mining,” he says. Joe Landon sees it, too. In addition to his work at Planetary Resources, Landon is chair of the Space Angels... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
Angeles to her native St. Louis. Granted Sunday visitation rights, his father only made the 1,800-mile trip twice. And on the second visit, his father kidnapped him, driving him back to Los Angeles. The event would shape Ed's life.... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
minimum viable product, bootstrapping, and staged investment are critical to startups in these emerging ecosystems, one needs to adapt the lessons from mature markets like Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston that receive the majority of... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
how to implement Performance with Purpose in their local markets. PepsiCo India has made progress under the mission but continues to be challenged by the inherent tension between short-term financial performance and long-term investments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Print View - Course Catalog
beyond the basics of venture capital and angel financing to look at venture debt, bank finance, corporate venture capital and receivables financing. Course Content and Educational Objectives The goal of Entrepreneurial Finance is to help... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
bought and how they spent their money. From the New York Times “How We Spend Our Time” (April 24, 1937) LOS ANGELES SKYLINE, 2008: The post–World War II boom years were followed by “deceptively subtle” upheavals in the American business... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discouraged. After graduating from Harvard College in 1997, she arrived in Silicon Valley just as the Internet began to enter everyday life. Maybank worked as an investment banker on some of the first Internet IPOs before joining eBay;... View Details
Keywords: April White