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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance Course Number 1624 Assistant Professor Raymond Kluender Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get involved with a View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
someone from HBS before deciding to come here.” The personal touch doesn’t stop there. Dewey calls or e-mails every newly admitted MBA student. “It’s important to reach out to let them know we’re glad to have them and to answer any... View Details
- 10 May 2015
- Blog Post
Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur
off last spring. What did you do before coming to HBS? Before HBS I served as a brand strategy and market research consultant for retail, media and technology firms. For about five years, I thoroughly enjoyed advising clients on topics... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
When Bill George (MBA ’66) talks about leadership, people listen. And well they should. For a decade, he quietly grew a midsized Minnesota medical-device maker into a world-class medical technology company. When George joined Medtronic in... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
Congress and the streets getting fixed." “The sweet spot is where you are working hard, but also getting things done” In a new paper, Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services, Norton worked... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
data from Seattle restaurants, Luca found that a one-star increase in a Yelp rating increased an independent restaurant’s revenue by 5 to 9 percent. (Chain restaurants didn’t see the same effect.) Yelp uses the arithmetic mean of reviewer... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
possibly demotivating loss. Value collaboration and teamwork. There is also the issue that over the next 18 to 24 months some people will return to the office while others continue working from home; this can lead to rival subcultures.... View Details
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
possibly demotivating loss. Value collaboration and teamwork. There is also the issue that over the next 18 to 24 months some people will return to the office while others continue working from home; this can lead to rival subcultures.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
involved in Scranton, a city just over two hours away from New York with the potential to outgrow its punch-line status and draw millennials looking for affordable housing and a higher quality of life. Then,... View Details
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
American in ways that are not only tangible, but also, in fact, consequential. Half of the people who work in America either own or work for a small business. And small businesses have created 60 percent of all net new jobs since 1995.... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
The Boston Globe has a long feature on Brian Shortsleeve (MBA 2001), the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) new chief administrator. The piece notes Shortsleeve’s challenge: $5.5 billion in debt and a $7 billion... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
regardless of location. "A handful of senior consultants will go out and open a new office," he says. "They hire the best talent available in that country and train them to assume total responsibility from... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
In a recent virtual fireside chat, HBS Senior Fellow Bill George spoke with Chad E. Foster (PLDA 21, 2016), who learned that, though he lost his vision in his early 20s, blindness was a “gift” from which he developed the mental stamina... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
The first HBS New Venture Competition was held in 1997, in the era of PalmPilot and RealPlayer. And while the tech landscape has changed dramatically since then, many of the core lessons of the entrepreneurial experience—scaling, funding,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
At the beginning of January, over two hundred senior executives and government officials from around the globe met at Harvard Business School for the fortieth annual Agribusiness Seminar. They represented every facet of the "global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that... View Details
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Podcast - HBS Online
Harvard’s Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute, discusses artificial intelligence's transformative impact across industries, the need for global regulation, and the importance of making AI technologies accessible and affordable.... View Details
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
eliminate wasted fabrics. “I want to eliminate waste from the past and waste from the future by creating new clothing designs from leftover bolts... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
by Maureen Harmon Blaine Favel Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) grew up on Cree Indian reservation. His father was a chief, as was his grandfather before him. "It was a true democracy back then," says Favel, when a chief served at the will of the people. Favel recalls his... View Details