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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club

In December, some 450 alumni representing HBS and other top business schools gathered for a talk by Thomas M. Siebel, chairman and CEO of Siebel Systems, Inc., which produces e-business application software. The event, sponsored by the... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 02 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

direct knowledge, in turn, affect trust through identification, adaptation, and reduced misunderstandings. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-131.pdf   PublicationsHow Concepts Affect Consumption Authors:Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

Andrei Hagiu of Harvard Business School and venture capitalist Simon Rothman of Greylock Partners. Most entrepreneurs and investors attribute this to the challenge of quickly attracting a critical mass of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

Walmart's attempts to replicate its successful U.S. business model in Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Central America, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, the UK, and Africa. Students reflect on the mixed results of these View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Megan Gardner

Megan (HBS ’06) is an executive coach, board member and tactical advisor for CEOs and senior executives. As a founder and CEO of a technology business, she knows first-hand the value of strong coaching in a rapidly growing business. In her last venture, she raised over... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital
  • 23 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

new apps and other products, offering feedback to help entrepreneurs refine their ideas. However, there’s a caveat to this feedback: 90 percent of users on Product Hunt are men, according to a recent working paper by a trio of Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in formal organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction, but that within the opportunity sets created by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

@Soldiers Field

welcomed 2,800 alumni and guests to campus for a full program of events and presentations, including “How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life” by Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks, one of six 10-minute flash talks offered in Klarman... View Details
Keywords: reunions; campus life; Finance; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

International Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold
This paper examines differences in the size and roles of corporate headquarters around the world. Based on a survey of over 600 multibusiness corporations in seven countries (France, Germany, Holland, UK, Japan, US, and Chile) the paper describes the differences among... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Size; Organizational Structure; Culture; Japan; France; Germany; Netherlands; United Kingdom; United States; Chile
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    Sarah Leary

    Sarah Leary is Nextdoor's Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Global Business Operations Officer, and Co-Founder of Nextdoor. Sarah started her career at Microsoft before serving in senior leadership at veteran tech organizations, including... View Details
    Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)
    • 23 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 23

    Drama William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen MantyHarvard Business School Case 312-025 Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Jun 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

    Conversely, I’ve heard investors say they wish the leaders of their portfolio companies would be more transparent about challenges they are facing and ask for help. As one investor said to me, “They already sold me on the business and... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • 10 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 10

    Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310090-PDF-ENG Milliway Capital & Martin Smith: November 2008 G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-088 Martin Smith, a recent... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Tasneem Dohadwala

      and Altiostar Networks. She is also a Managing Partner of Golden Seeds. She also contributed an essay, “Women and the Workplace,” to the book, Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders. She is a... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital
      • 14 Jun 2016
      • First Look

      June 14, 2016

      forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 29 Oct 2019
      • Blog Post

      Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact

      Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing business leaders and inspire new ideas and practical, effective... View Details
      • June 2021
      • Technical Note

      SPAC Space

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In 2020, over half of all initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States were special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), blank-check companies that typically had two years to find a business to take public, usually through a reverse merger. Together, 248... View Details
      Keywords: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies; SPACs; Mergers and Acquisitions; Going Public; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Strategy
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      • 01 Jun 2022
      • News

      Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

      the African American Student Union hosts the annual Black New Venture Competition to help early-stage Black entrepreneurs further their business concepts. Tom Eisenmann: If you examine a sample of View Details
      Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
      • 10 Apr 2019
      • HBS Case

      How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

      writer based in the Boston area. Image credit: Gremlin Related Reading: Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
      • 18 Nov 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: November 18

      commercialization of technologies. This evidence also points to an important mechanism relating financial market development to technology diffusion and economic growth. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2520551 Entrepreneurship... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne