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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
dedicated to creating and advancing solutions to the core issues driving climate change Matthew Commons (MBA 2007) FloDesign Wind Turbine Corporation Waltham and Wilbraham, Massachusetts Wind turbine manufacturer Patricia A. Connolly (MBA...
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Q1Q2 3.0 ^ back to top C Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Capitalism and the State (CATS) Business, Government & the International Economy, General Management Debora L. Spar Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Business, Government & the...
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- August 2008 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Nantero
By: William A. Sahlman, Dan Heath and Caroline Perkins
This case describes a decision confronting the founder of Nantero, a company developing a new semiconductor technology. The company needs to raise additional venture capital. Potential investors have competing visions for the company, and its business model. Some...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Product Development;
Production;
Technology;
Semiconductor Industry
Sahlman, William A., Dan Heath, and Caroline Perkins. "Nantero." Harvard Business School Case 809-031, August 2008. (Revised December 2009.)
- September 2011 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
ScoreBig
By: William A. Sahlman, Jeffrey Glass and Evan W. Richardson
The founding team at ScoreBig, an event ticketing company, is on the verge of a public launch of their product. The company has made great progress in negotiating access to tickets, designing its interface, and building a proprietary architecture. For consumers,...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Sahlman, William A., Jeffrey Glass, and Evan W. Richardson. "ScoreBig." Harvard Business School Case 812-043, September 2011. (Revised August 2015.)
- January 2020
- Article
How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships...
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Gompers, Paul A., William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. "How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?" Journal of Financial Economics 135, no. 1 (January 2020): 169–190.
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
the background? How will change be achieved? What could go wrong? Will management save US health care? What do you think? To Read More: Atul Gawande, Big Med, The New Yorker, August 13 & 20, 2012, pp. 52-63. Paul C. Weiler, Howard W. Hiatt, Joseph P. Newhouse,...
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Philadelphia printers conduct first successful strike for increased wages 1787 United States Constitution adopted 1790 William Pollard is issued the first patent for a machine that roves and spins cotton 1794 Eli Whitney patents gin that...
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- August 1989
- Background Note
Note on Commercial Space Leases
By: William J. Poorvu and Donald A. Brown
Poorvu, William J., and Donald A. Brown. "Note on Commercial Space Leases." Harvard Business School Background Note 390-007, August 1989.
- December 1987 (Revised May 1991)
- Case
One Leather Street
By: William J. Poorvu and Jeffrey A. Libert
Presents a problem involving rehabilitating a small office building in Boston. Describes an investment decision which is knowingly underfunded. As construction proceeds, the developer realizes that it is not up to building code and faces difficult business and ethical...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Ethics;
Investment;
Decisions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Property;
Real Estate Industry;
Construction Industry;
Boston
Poorvu, William J., and Jeffrey A. Libert. "One Leather Street." Harvard Business School Case 388-084, December 1987. (Revised May 1991.)
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
stringency and diligent recollection of moral rules. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf The Ethical Mirage: A Temporal Explanation as to Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are (revised) Authors:Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Kristina View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
operations of their complicated, not-for-profit institutions. "The job of running a museum is much bigger and broader than it once was," observes HBS marketing professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, an expert on nonprofit management who...
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- October 1999
- Case
Bedrock Management Company
By: William A. Sahlman, Curtis E. Large and Matthew C. Lieb
Keywords:
Management
Sahlman, William A., Curtis E. Large, and Matthew C. Lieb. "Bedrock Management Company." Harvard Business School Case 800-181, October 1999.
- August 1996
- Exercise
Financial Investigation Group Exercise
By: William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson and Andrew S. Janower
Keywords:
Finance
Sahlman, William A., Howard H. Stevenson, and Andrew S. Janower. "Financial Investigation Group Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 897-008, August 1996.
- November 2021 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
QuantumScape's Mission to Revolutionize Energy Storage for a Sustainable Future
By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
QuantumScape CEO Jagdeep Singh juggles the many activities required to lead the next-generation battery pioneer. Founded in 2010, QuantumScape’s mission was to develop new “solid-state” car batteries that would improve upon traditional lithium-ion batteries in key...
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Keywords:
Batteries;
Electric Vehicles;
SPACs;
Innovation and Management;
Technological Innovation;
Science-Based Business;
Environmental Sustainability;
Auto Industry;
Energy Industry;
California;
San Jose
Sahlman, William A., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Jeff Huizinga. "QuantumScape's Mission to Revolutionize Energy Storage for a Sustainable Future." Harvard Business School Case 822-044, November 2021. (Revised May 2022.)
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
multiyear agenda, and as labs complete their work, they will have the opportunity for renewal as well as reorganizing into new labs. The research conducted by HBS faculty and their colleagues from Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard John View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
my colleague Bill Sahlman calls the "secret sauce" of HBS. Our challenge, then, is to envision what the digital complement to this experience might be. How can we best leverage all the distinctive competences and characteristics that have...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the Bulletin spoke with Jay R. Boberg...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- Article
Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective
By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group...
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Keywords:
Equality and Inequality;
Race;
Prejudice and Bias;
Organizational Culture;
Gender;
Power and Influence;
Employees;
Attitudes
Mobasseri, Sanaz, William A. Kahn, and Robin J. Ely. "Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective." Academy of Management Review (in press). (Pre-published online January 4, 2024.)
- October 2022
- Case
EducationSuperHighway 2.0
By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ...
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Keywords:
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Leading Change;
Early Childhood Education;
Infrastructure;
Internet and the Web;
Telecommunications Industry;
Education Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
San Francisco
Sahlman, William A., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "EducationSuperHighway 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 823-060, October 2022.
- August 2018
- Technical Note
Evaluating Start Ups
A framework for assessing new business opportunities and the business plans used to describe them is developed. Useful for aspiring entrepreneurs in MBA programs.
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Sahlman, William A., Ramana Nanda, and Robert F. White. "Evaluating Start Ups." Harvard Business School Technical Note 819-039, August 2018.