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- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
Street (OWS), a prominent short selling research firm. Diamond Foods, a high flying growth company in 2011, grew from a walnut farmers' cooperative in 2005 into a branded snack foods manufacturer on the strength of a series of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Schumpeter's point is admittedly difficult to sell in the "sound-bite" culture of our political debates, but that's why it is so important. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am currently working on a book about Renaissance... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
asset class. In recent years, a growing number of individual and institutional investors have allocated a portion of their capital into agricultural farmland. Private investors, public companies, and sovereign wealth funds are now all currently purchasing and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20
Components Organization (ICO) was an internal venture that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought to initially develop and sell a high performance integrated CMOS image sensor module for cellular phones. ICO's opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
Abstract This paper constructs an index of financial sophistication that, in comprehensive data on Swedish households, best explains a set of three investment mistakes: underdiversification, risky share inertia, and the tendency to sell... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
entrepreneurs can achieve both—the Larry Ellisons of the business world are few and far between. In fact, there is a fundamental tension between the money side and the control side—getting rich often means selling control to investors;... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
largest wireless carriers. SupplierMarket Jon Burgstone, MBA 1999 Asif Satchu, MBA 1999 SupplierMarket.com (purchased by Ariba) is an online marketplace for buying and selling manufactured direct materials. The site enables buyers to find... View Details
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Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurial Finance Entrepreneurial Management, Finance Raymond Kluender Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) Entrepreneurial Management, Finance Shai Bernstein Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 22
http://hbr.org/search/914405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-067 Rodan + Fields Dermatologists The case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community
then went on to sell it to SalesForce. Kyle is now a VC at DCM Ventures. Andrew and Bin from Boba Guys - I’m particularly interested in scaling out Food & Beverage businesses because I just took classes in Real Estate and Restaurants... View Details
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Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 10 Sep 2024 Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) Ron Kurtz Author Alumni tag All Industries All Locations Alumni Student & Alumni Stories As a youngster, I used to create “stores” in my driveway, View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
received multiple bids when she put it on the market in early June, selling within three days. “I had no idea of the true market demand for this type of product,” says Harper. “I’m very encouraged that home buyers are educating themselves... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
of unknowns when you begin," Anquetil says. "A start-up entrepreneur has to be very comfortable with that uncertainty. But even if you solve the problem, you still need to sell your idea. You have to demonstrate that you have the right... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
liquidating funds: at the beginning of the fire sale, they sell their holdings in the liquidated stocks, to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. The predatory trades generate at least 50 basis points over ten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
influences scientists' hazards of transitioning to for-profit science. With Friends Like These: The Art of Managing Complementors Authors:David B Yoffie and Mary Kwak Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 9 (September 2006) Abstract Intel and Microsoft neither buy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
made her the perfect blank slate. After agreeing to take 20 boxes, she called a few days later and asked for more. Now the store sells an average of 100 boxes each week. Like any good entrepreneur, Viana engages a man standing near the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
portable generators he’d been selling in India. When Mittal traveled to East Asia in search of new ideas, he saw push-button phones in Taiwan (most Indian phones were rotary dial at the time). Government regulations forbade the import of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
launch in Charlotte, North Carolina, which prompted urgent strategic questions. Among them was the appropriate funding model—whether Ribbon should be mainly a platform for others to fund transactions, or should it buy and hold homes on its balance sheet, which it could... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
investigating the workings of both the sell and buy sides of financial analysis, tackles how the U.S. securities industry research adds value in financial markets, and evaluates the business model problems that the industry encounters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace