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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2024
- Case
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
investment banking division for Goldman Sachs. And it was kind of an interesting experience I thought I'd share quickly. We started the training program in about September of 1987, then in October of 1987 there was a big stock market... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
reshored factories, or requiring a certain percentage of demand to be available from US or USMCA sources. Those would admittedly be bold moves, notes Fuller, but it’s the kind of thinking needed to have reshoring make real economic sense:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
produce an infinite variety of possible SmartPak combinations in a cost-effective way and get orders out the door in a timely manner. Our economic model had some great features — customized products, continuity sales, limited working... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Related Links The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Celebrating the Women of HBS W50 Summit Event A Daring Experiment exhibit Women's Student Association 2013 Dynamic Women in Business Conference Women at HBS: Events, Projects, and View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
33-year-old Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land) is making his name on: It presents Armstrong, typically portrayed as a postage-stamp hero, as a complex man who staked a nation’s place on the moon—and in history—at enormous personal cost. “The... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about butts in seats—it’s about helping people learn and make progress in life. That experience set me on a trajectory to convert a passion for education into my career. Now I am leading a transformation at the world’s largest education... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
says. The recruiter eventually relented, and so began Dubinsky’s career of transforming the tech world. Dubinsky and Hawkins—shown here with Numenta cofounder Dileep George in 2005—first paired up at Palm, where Dubinsky was the founding... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
a right-to-work law was not a major part of their election platform because of the union opposition they thought it would generate. Quietly, however, Republicans did support a right-to-work law that was expected to attract more jobs to the state in a very difficult... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
attended British boarding schools before graduating from Yale as an economics major in 2001. After leaving the Ivy League, she accepted a position with consulting giant McKinsey in its San Francisco office, having turned down an offer... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different floors of the same building. Diane... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Stevenson. "Our entrepreneurially oriented executive programs, the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) and the Presidents' Seminar, which work with presidents of entrepreneurially oriented firms, rely on a broad mix of faculty drawn... View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
fell in love with the product and forgot about the customer. Something else very important happened to the company from 1990 on—the Intel Inside program had reached directly out to the consumer. So Andy, who grew up as an engineer,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
students in the Scranton School District improved or held steady in 12 out of 15 academic categories in the most recently completed academic year. “That is a real bright spot when you consider that 83 percent of students in the district have some level of View Details