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- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
notify accredited investors who are signed up for VentureHealth. Those who want to invest do, and those who don't don't." Demand has been strong; in its first round in April 2013,VentureHealth raised $875,000 in three weeks, then, in August, $2.6 million in 14 days. Of...
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Previously, for the last 2 years of her ~8 years tenure at Google, Wendi was the Business Development Partner for Gradient Ventures (Google's AI Fund), where she advised Gradient's portfolio companies on their business challenges and...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M....
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by Ann Cullen
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
which finds (a) a shift in the object of observation from organizational outcomes to the detailed individual activities within them; (b) a shift from people observing the technology to technology observing...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to...
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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
fuel its own business. P&G has set a stretch goal of having 50 percent of its new project portfolio come from outside its own four walls. And IBM and P&G also allow others to license their ideas for their own business. IBM...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
people and have implications for the use of technological algorithms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52499 Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
growth, while different across regions, are non-linear and asymmetric. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53596 Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors By: Viceira, Luis M., and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
students should know about? Today health care is being impacted by technology. Technology is changing every aspect of health care from diagnosis, treatment, care delivery to patient engagement and communication. This creates very...
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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog
identify the key factors behind commercial success and failure. How is technology and the digital age changing this space? And when businesses generate strong financial returns, does it come at the expense of social impact --- can...
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- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
markets. Portfolio inflows that capture those financial market investments are much higher in South Africa than they are for other regions of the world. Q: Your case describes the complexities of good FDI and "bad" (or at least...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
effectively and efficiently measure the impact of Acumen’s portfolio companies. “We developed Lean Data as a smart way to listen to our customers and understand the impact of our products and services on their lives,” Kasia says. In the...
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- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
programs that speed innovation by providing exactly what the early-stage neuroscience entrepreneurs indicate they are lacking. There are more than 200 accelerators operating worldwide, and many of them have been working with technology...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Vertically Inclined
said his firm is positioned to make a profit with rental rates at $55 a square foot, rather than the $70-a-square-foot rate most developers must charge. “We’re able to do this because we’re completely vertically integrated, doing our own construction, with very...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) founded his company, Zetta Research, to restructure patent portfolios and other intellectual property assets from closed startups, develop them, and resell them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. He...
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- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students worked at this summer...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds (ETFs), investing the funds according to a standard portfolio...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
early-stage information technology companies. "We had some good luck early on, and that made it easier to raise subsequent funds," says the humble New Jersey native, a Princeton graduate who, along with his wife, Lynn, is raising their...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
technologies to address climate change at scale, where he accepted a summer internship as a Portfolio Greenhouse Gas Impact Analysis Intern. Kaelyn refined her broad career interests after hearing a guest...
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- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
potential for multiple breakthroughs related to the specific tumor segmentation task of radiation oncologists while also addressing technological issues (e.g., reframing and conducting sequential competition phases). Lagace: What made...
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