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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
1970s, the seeds of change for ARD were in the air. The Small Business Investment Act of 1953 had promoted the creation of small business investment corporations (SBICs) through financial support and loans. Over time, the financial benefits View Details
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From Classroom to Workplace - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
male-dominated arenas and of achieving a delicate balance between their professional and personal lives. 173, 174, 037 Women students, for example, experienced the sting of discrimination beginning with company recruiters, who offered... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
HBS alums Greg Avis (Summit Partners, MBA 1984), Chad Keck (Needham & Co., MBA 1976), Tom Volpe (Prudential Volpe, MBA 1976), and Tony Blenk (Everen Securities, MBA 1976), Crane led the company in acquiring 13 companies, raised four rounds of venture capital, and took... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
Ph.D.'s from the Divinity School." During his term, Stern has worked to continue long-standing traditions and to initiate new ones. The Leadership Program, a top-notch executive course run by HBS professors, is now in its fifth year. This... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
platform). Over time, Microsoft has pursued both integration and foreclosure strategies with its Microsoft Windows operating system, Wu says. Companies that are new to a market don’t initially have the same market power to integrate or... View Details
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
innovation is so difficult and the number of product cycles are high). It's liberating to be self-reliant and not be hamstrung by the "I need a developer" excuse. There's been a lot of debate on whether business school students are prepared for startup... View Details
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Adam Kanner
laptops. Savvy entrepreneurs often find opportunity where others find flaws. For Adam Kanner, a former vice president for marketing and business development for the National Basketball Association, the empty seats triggered a startup idea. If he could create a business... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
fellows—are offered once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. At the same time, the hiring organizations leverage the... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Enterprise Ventures Benjamin Schedl Rea Savla Sophy Wang Teresa Danso-Danquah 07 Sep 2023 The Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and se... Elevating Volunteer Service: SE Summer Fellow... View Details
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IT Strategy: IT Modernization Drives Academic Library Innovation | Information Technology
evolve Baker Library technology and processes to support its objective of being at the vanguard of academic library innovation, linked data experimentation, semantic data modeling, and digital product development. This initiative will... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
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How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
mill stores were merely a fad. Instead, he bet on supermarket-style stores, with self-service, offering clothing, toys, beauty supplies and housewares. That idea became the basis for the family’s chain of Zayre discount stores, introduced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Invest in the New Abnormal
in the current environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity, resulting in a net economic crisis that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today.” To engage customers in this new abnormal, Deshpandé offers the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
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Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
serve as CFO for the Africa Healthcare Network in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Africa before attending HBS. Ike Kyei (MBA 2019) is a former business analyst at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
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Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
competition, and offering resilience for economic downturns. "Any governance system is going to have to achieve these kinds of things," said Froot, noting that ineffective governance may have contributed to the demise of certain dot-coms... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
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Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
offer insurance at genuinely lower prices, but only if it is implemented without the financing gimmicks that have artificially lowered the costs of Medicare at the expense of future generations. The pricing of the public option must... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
consumer inertia is a big deal in your market, it could be the case that you are not pricing appropriately,” MacKay says. “You may want to reduce prices to attract repeat customers down the line.” Companies often internalize consumer inertia by setting pricing... View Details
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approach our work from new and inclusive perspectives, offering possibilities that challenge the status quo. Accountable We own our decisions, our roles, our commitments, and the outcomes. We take pride in the work we do.... View Details
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
entrepreneur-in-residence Henry McCance (MBA '66) focus on events surrounding the key moment at which a founder hands off his or her "baby" to a new CEO. "In my initial research on founders, I focused on the question of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
and later on in renegotiations. Transparency also leads workers to accept lower initial offers to get in the door, thinking they can renegotiate later, once they learn the salaries of their coworkers, Cullen... View Details
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