innovative investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2007
News

HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report

billion, up 13 percent, reflecting strong returns and new gifts. The School’s operating expenses rose 12.4 percent to $345 million, with the growth primarily reflecting increased investments in Executive Education and HBSP, and... View Details

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

01 Dec 2011
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A Deal on Wheels

Will Boland (MBA ’09) cofounded CarLotz, based in Richmond, Virginia. It’s an innovative venture that’s designed to take the hassle out of the automotive sale-by-owner market. “Most people describe the process of buying or selling a used... View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog

with the appropriate financial and human resources, and scaling. The course will explore which areas of the life sciences are ripe for innovation and entrepreneurship and will cover therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and related service... View Details

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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Regina Herzlinger Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Innovating in Health Care, Q2 General Management, Technology & Operations Management Regina Herzlinger Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Field Course: Investing for Impact... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Fellowships Have Impact

fellowships discuss the impact of that support as they strive to make a difference in the world. (8 min. video) Investing in Fellowships Gifts in any amount to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation help... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Make or Break

BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

15 May 2012
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Finally Finding the Right Fit

pursued a variety of career aspirations. Heffernan trained as a doctor (graduating first in his class), practiced briefly, and decided that medicine was not the right fit. He tried investment banking with Goldman Sachs for a few years,... View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Apr 2014
News

Medicine made personal

Entrepreneurship Club, Goyal has created the start-up Foresight Pharmaceuticals. Goyal and Levy secured a residency at the Harvard Innovation Lab and have pitched Foresight to HBS Business Angels, an alumni View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Personal crises inform a life’s work

One of the youngest women to attend HBS, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) was building a successful investment banking career when a cancer diagnosis at age 29 spurred her to volunteer at the National Alliance of Breast Cancer... View Details

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

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime View Details

01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity

Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Oct 1998
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A Message from Dean Clark

requires continuing innovation in all of our educational programs. What we see ahead is a need for leaders with strong general management skills - people who know how to get things done and are able to inspire others. These qualities have... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Recognizing Potential

as cochair. Stevens, managing director of S-Cubed Capital and a former managing partner at Sequoia Capital, has invested in Internet companies for nearly two decades, but it was his own encounter with distance learning 30 years ago that... View Details

Keywords: Internet; distance learning; online education; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Special Collections & Archives | Baker Library

Special Collections & Archives Ask Us Discover, Research, Engage Learn about collections Find and use resources Explore exhibits Collection Highlights See All Collection Highlights Polaroid Corporation Collection Records from one of the most creative and View Details

05 Oct 2016
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Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab

for the entire community beginning this fall. Through these collective projects, Harvard is making critical investments and stewarding its Allston campus as part of a larger picture of innovation and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

This confirmed the rationale back in 1970 for PARC's charter as a separate research center. As Robert Adams, then a Xerox senior vice president, recalled, "The laser printer alone paid for all of the other PARC research projects many times over. If some of the... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

16 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

By: Rithmire, Meg Abstract—The Chinese leadership under Xi Jinping has announced its intentions to transition the economy from one driven by investment and exports to one driven by domestic demand. The main strategy to achieve this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Behavioral Finance — Benefiting... View Details