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Ian Naccarella
Ian has experience in the Climate Tech space from a variety of roles, including time spent at Sila Nanotechnologies (a battery startup), SE Ventures (VC), and at BCG in the Climate and Sustainability practice area. He also spent the summer as an View Details
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley Course Number 1631 Professor Paul Gompers Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Overview: Entrepreneurship has been shown to be a major driver of economic development in markets like Israel,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
bear. Written by Harvard Business School Visiting Professor Thomas H. Davenport and independent consultant Brook Manville, the book shares the tales of organizations that made successful choices through team-led decisions. This excerpt explores the View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
entrepreneurial skills on a broader canvas” We classified what we heard as ten potential disruptors of the global market system: the functioning of the global financial system, barriers to world trade,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
private equity and public companies "changes the ownership structure of assets and alters the incentives and governance mechanisms that surround the economic engine of our economy." During a recent interview in his Rock Center office, Rhodes-Kropf, an... View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
witnessed the company’s scrappy nature, commitment to innovation, and operational creativity. Key Takeaways from the Log 9 Site Visit The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) course at HBS introduced the Diamond-Square framework as a means to... View Details
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Zach Clayton
marketing to operations," says Zach. "I realized I was figuring a lot of things on my own I shouldn't have to. With the right training, I could skip a few steps later on." Zach came to HBS for its business realism.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
companies to be formed, and the capital markets have been more than willing to finance the competitive onslaught," Kester observed. "These changes in the economy are being led by our graduates and are also reflected in our students'... View Details
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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous), far more value is created by companies like Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet that develop entirely novel business models than by entrenched incumbents, such as P&G or Ford, which struggle to eke out market share... View Details
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy big, sell small
cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of something, they have to travel to a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
incremental revenue for an airline with $3 billion in gross revenue. After serving as senior vice president of marketing for Continental Airlines, Brierley returned to his entrepreneurial roots in 1985 to... View Details
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Steven B. Belkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Transcript (PDF) Steve Belkin, HBS 1971, is the founder of the privately held Trans National Group (TNG), a direct marketer of financial, travel, and other services to affinity groups like the American Medical Association. Since founding... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
No wonder the economy is slow to recover. At the end of 2013, industrial firms listed on the US stock markets held an astounding $1.6 trillion in cash reserves—that’s 12 percent more than a year earlier. And those were just the public... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2015
- Blog Post
Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students
your career? As a partner in a venture capital firm, I have the opportunity to meet and fund amazing entrepreneurs who are building innovative companies in large markets. I am constantly inspired by their determination to take on big challenges by disrupting existing... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with View Details
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T. J. Dermot Dunphy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
weren’t sure how to market it. Dermot took over the company and in the process essentially invented the packaging industry for enclosing and protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. He also created a first-rate R&D... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage them. Effective apps will do one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
invest in an entrepreneurial opportunity, we have to be sure there aren’t competitors in some other part of the world — whether China, India, or Israel — and have enough insight into each market to know that... View Details