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- April 1999 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
Columbia Capital Corporation: Summer 1998
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Justin D. Wasik
In August 1998, the partners of Columbia Capital in Arlington, Va. made a decision about whether or not to raise an outside fund for venture capital investing. Columbia had begun in 1988 as a boutique investment bank focused on the telecommunications industry, but had...
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Decisions;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Partners and Partnerships;
Investment Funds;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Justin D. Wasik. "Columbia Capital Corporation: Summer 1998." Harvard Business School Case 899-255, April 1999. (Revised November 1999.)
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Eastwick, Jenna H. Frost, and Michael R. Maniaci Abstract—This article began as an adversarial collaboration between two groups of researchers with competing views on a longstanding question: Does...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Careers - Health Care
pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic companies, as well as financial services, consulting, health care delivery, and health services organizations. Recruiting...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
cutting-edge technologies to also build the most advanced security capabilities for biology.” The coronavirus presented a “crucible moment,” he acknowledges. Concentric launched in 2020 with a COVID-19...
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- 11 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms
As an organizational behavior scholar, diversity and identity expert, and an assistant professor of management at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Dr. Stephanie Creary has become a recognized...
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- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
Chapman Wood, George Westerman, and Charles A. O'Reilly III Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
The fight was lost as consumers voted for free information supported by advertising over subscription services. Ironically, online advertising and the commercialization of the Web achieved important goals of the resisters: to preserve the...
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- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
Summing Up Why Not Turn "No Surprises Management" On Its Head? If "managing up" with a "no surprises management" (NSM) philosophy is popular, "managing down" with NSM makes just View Details
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by James Heskett
- Profile
Mollie Breen
After demonstrating exceptional math and computer science talent at Duke University, and more than three years of service as an applied research mathematician in the Department of Defense, Mollie Breen took...
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- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning for her service as a teaching fellow for the undergraduate course "Social Psychology of Organizations" at Harvard College. Sunil...
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Cumnock Hall | About
well-appointed offices and support services for HBS emeriti professors. The Center offers a wide array of amenities to retired emeriti faculty at HBS. These features include office space, equipment use,...
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- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
company to an advanced materials company whose products and services can make its clients more sustainable. During the 1960s and 1970s the company received a series of external shocks in the form of negative...
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Sean Silverthorne
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change....
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- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of her masculine, aggressive style in the classroom. View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni
choose your path For many HBS MBA candidates, entrepreneurship rivals general management, consulting, and financial services as a meaningful career path. But by definition,...
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- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It's time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition...
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by Eric Werker
- 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
from the 1920s onward, including geographic, product, and matrix architectures. Market development organizations, global business units, and global business services unit, each of which is heavily interdependent with the others and none...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
negotiators thrive in the face of chaos and uncertainty. They don't trap themselves with rigid plans. Instead they understand negotiation as a process of exploration that demands ongoing learning, adapting,...
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Sean Silverthorne