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- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
Today, there are 40 staffers working in partnership with 450 pro-bono attorneys to represent the 1,001 children who would not otherwise be able to afford an advocate. These young migrants, most of whom arrived from Central America, have... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
communities globally at GE Money; at IBM he helped to develop the company’s corporate citizenship strategy and launched a leadership program for school administrators in partnership with HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. “I’ve always... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
forming a new national stock exchange, leading early IPOs of Indian companies like Wipro and Infosys, and overseeing early diversity and inclusion initiatives in her role as head of HSBC India. After retiring in 2015, Kidwai co-founded the India Sanitation Coalition,... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
whom I have worked with as an advisor) now offers Working Capital Terms, a non-card payment option that businesses can use to pay vendors. And, this month they announced a partnership with Intuit so their cardholders, who use QuickBooks... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
for a new business can have unintended legal consequences and expectations about founder status and ownership shares may diverge widely. Using facts from a litigated case, the concept of inadvertent formation of a partnership is explored.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
RealReal, an e-commerce site for pre-owned luxury items, to use their platform to sell face masks made by designers, and more recently launched a partnership with Athleta, a division of The Gap, to raise much needed funds to make and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
public-private partnership in the world. The core mission is universal service: going everywhere six days a week, and a seventh day for package delivery. Some people believe that only a public agency can be trusted to provide this kind of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
a direct partnership with traditional advisors. The Answers: When I first started researching the robo-advising space two years ago, there were already 20 offerings out there. Wealthfront and Betterment have the highest visibility, but... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
a lot of them. We know businesses really need these women for promotion reasons and also skills reasons. How about we see if we can bring the two together?” says Gould. Women Returners works with companies and professional partnerships to... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
product features, and partnerships with top-tier brands. “With our work on MOGUL being recognized by Business Insider, Forbes, Huffington Post, Yahoo!, and Cadillac, it is exciting to leverage the internal and external momentum we have... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
meeting at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, to an education conference in Dubai, and to the University of Ghana, where he delivered a lecture on partnerships for success in Africa. The hectic pace and diverse agendas were not unusual for... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
business-government partnership works best at a very narrow technical level, observed Bolnick. People who are specialists in particular tax issues, for instance, should work with government on resolving those same tax issues. Others with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- January 1986 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Horizon Group
Contains a description of a situation confronting the co-founder of a company planning to produce software for microcomputers. The company has just completed raising money from some wealthy investors by forming an R&D Limited Partnership. Development of the program (an... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Business Plan; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Horizon Group." Harvard Business School Case 286-058, January 1986. (Revised March 1997.)
- May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Slingshot Technology, Inc. (C)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Case 804-024, May 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
- August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
PureTech Ventures in 2011
By: Andrei Hagiu, Cesar Castro and Sarah Murphy
In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing a term sheet she had just received from a venture capital (VC) firm for one of PureTech's portfolio companies. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Boston
Hagiu, Andrei, Cesar Castro, and Sarah Murphy. "PureTech Ventures in 2011." Harvard Business School Case 712-419, August 2011. (Revised October 2011.)
- September 2009
- Supplement
One South: Investing in Emerging Markets (B)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Justin Seth Ginsburgh
A United States private equity fund, The Saboput Group, must decide whether to invest in a new technology park development in Chennai, India. The B case provides the reader with due diligence observations, which reveal numerous potential problems with the investment.... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Private Equity; Investment; Foreign Direct Investment; Markets; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Partners and Partnerships; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Chennai; United States
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Justin Seth Ginsburgh. "One South: Investing in Emerging Markets (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 210-027, September 2009.
- September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Yale University Investments Office: June 2003
By: Josh Lerner
The Yale Investments Office must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments--hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and so forth. Considers the risks and benefits of a different asset allocation strategy.... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Assets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Resource Allocation; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Education Industry
Lerner, Josh. "Yale University Investments Office: June 2003." Harvard Business School Case 204-055, September 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- July 2006 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A)
Explores the Mozilla Foundation's decisions leading up to the launch of Firefox 1.0, including its default browser, managing corporate partnerships, managing product development, and moving toward a revenue-based model. Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Commercialization; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Social Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; United States
O'Mahony, Siobhan, and Nikhil Raj. "The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 907-015, July 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
streets. It had become a ghost town. “It was a really shocking sight,” says Hori, and one at odds with the bustling commercial hub he remembered. The experience led him to start the Downtown Mito Rebirth Project in 2016, a public-private View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
companies hoping to do business across the southern tier of Africa. With the emergence of New Partnership for Africa's Development and the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the overall climate for trade and investment in Africa is... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell