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01 Mar 2006
News

End of Campaign Celebrated

viewed a compelling video featuring members of the HBS community articulating what the School has meant to them. The School’s first capital campaign concluded on December 31, 2005, substantially exceeding its $500 million goal. (A final... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

far cry from the $1 billion committed to its most recent fund. The focus initially was on finding companies that had gone beyond the start-up stage-those that needed an infusion of working capital to enable them to continue to grow. "I knew that hitting a View Details

March 2019 (Revised March 2020)
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Choosing the Right Esports Business Model

By: David Collis and Alexander MacKay

Two esports entrepreneurs must choose on which business model to focus their time and money. After successfully launching an online esports coaching platform, a number of new opportunities emerge in the rapidly growing esports space that now has close to one billion... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Business Development; Esports; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Management; Strategy; Sports; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia

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01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

each of our awardees, capturing their work and private lives in pictures and extensive interviews.Â We’ve distilled his work for the profiles that follow. For more about each recipient and to watch a video tribute produced by Turnley,... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

purchase. It was a home run with our customers. Instead of losing them, we developed immensely loyal customers. Sahlman: I took advantage of the opportunity to avoid upheaval by pursuing the only job from which you can't get fired!... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the government just isn’t perceived as a cool place to work. Faced with the opportunity to spend your days in brightly colored offices with video game rooms and bountiful cafeterias, why would young talent... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

culture, leadership, and strategy of Uber in Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Blake J. Harris covers a classic business battle in Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation; besides being a video View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

With Y2K predictions running the gamut from glitches with home appliances to worldwide economic collapse, Y2K expert John F. Keane (MBA '54) assesses the situation as it appears with one year to go. John F. Keane is CEO and chairman of... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

performed," Nielsen says. After stepping down from the board in 2001, Nielsen turned to private investing. His first foray involved founding and funding TeachFirst, a company that uses the Internet to jump-start new teachers by sharing lesson plans and classroom View Details

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Research to Change the World: Translating Ideas, Transforming Practice Research to Change the World: Translating Ideas, Transforming Practice 02–03 APR 2015 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Max Bazerman Harvard... View Details

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

2,000 users, homing in on passenger usage data between January and November in 2018. After a rider had been active for three weeks, the authors tracked how—and, more important, when—customers used the service. The researchers then ranked... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

others, I found that the founders with the most enviable outcomes had usually followed basic principles of entrepreneurship. Most encouraging, I discovered, is that those principles can be learned. Howard Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor of... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

a race to commercialize the videocassette recorder (VCR), a market that television had created. Matsushita's Video Home System (VHS) captured the world market on the strength of that firm's functional... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that trying out a business model on a... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

roles to me as, “When you’re in a company, you’re in the game, making plays, and scoring points. When you’re an investor, you’re on the sidelines, 50 rows deep, cheering, but you’re not in the game - the entrepreneur is the one making... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

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General Management: Processes and Action

General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

McDonald’s gift certificates every Christmas. Flatley would usually head to McDonald’s with her mom and siblings after gymnastics class—a special, happy family moment amidst the chaos of crammed schedules. Cunningham’s local McDonald’s was a go-to post-soccer View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

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