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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a...
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Pamela Harder
architect behind the Amazon HQ2 $1.1B tech talent investment program. Prior to that, Pam ran Strategy & Business Operations at Clever, a K12 edtech startup in San Francisco. Under her leadership, she helped the company explore new View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the...
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Financial databases: certification and training | Baker Library
the industry by financial market professionals. Using our on-demand learning catalogue, you can upskill and prepare at your own pace, with a final test that is accessible online for you to self-register for and take at a time that suits...
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- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
efficiently as possible. Increasing the company's product line was a potentially quick, inexpensive way to shape a nascent market for processed food. It was also a means, Heinz reasoned, of building the brand. In the 1870s, branding was a...
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- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
sides will benefit from the control in costs, reduction of Medicare’s costs, and revitalization of the insurance market that this proposal will create. Our proposal charts a bipartisan path. It bolsters the Democratic mandate for...
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 19 Oct 2017
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Innovative Finance for the Common Good
Whether it's a vaccine or green bond, drought insurance, pay-as-you-go financing for solar electricity in Kenya, or discounted metro cards in New York, innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision making as it is about money; when it works,...
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- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Srinivasan, who also cites the important role of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a nonprofit private corporation created by SOX that oversees auditors of SEC-registered companies. View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early...
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- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
mundane topics that were candidates for this month's column. Clearly, an inability to identify and evaluate risk has led to an inability to value assets. What follows is the failure of "fair value accounting" and markets themselves....
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by Jim Heskett
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Commercial Videotaping & Photography | About
to take still photographs or video b-roll of the outside of Harvard Business School property for production, broadcast, or public dissemination must also obtain prior permission from the Marketing &...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Tidy Minds
In a wide-ranging Q&A in the "Global Manager" column of the New York Times (September 2, 2012), Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA 1968), chief executive of the WPP Group, the world's largest advertising and marketing firm, had some thoughts on...
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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the potential existed to sell the company soon for a substantial return to one of its competitors. However, if the market turned in a big way, the potential valuation could come screaming down. The business would not fail, as it was...
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by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
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Forest L. Reinhardt | About
Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket strategy, the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the behavior of private and public...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
Art by John Weber Related Links Virtual Learning Series: Understanding Users of Social Networks Career Webinar: Leverage the Power of Your LinkedIn Network Tweets are in the air we breathe. Most of us know that “friend” can also be a verb. Social media are part of the...
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Walter D. Fuller
Fuller successfully stepped into Cyrus Curtis’ role and led the publishing company through 25 years of top level financial performance. He expanded the base of the company’s publications – most notably, the Saturday Evening Post – and...
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Publishing & Print Media
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
indications incorrectly, that Dao had been violent. United suffered in the court of public opinion—and in litigation too, as Dao’s attorney extracted what was by all indications a sizable settlement. A customer with a camera can be a good...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
“creative,” and suddenly agencies could bill much more for their newly developed writing and marketing services. Brands that Lasker’s agency helped make or reinvent included Goodyear, Kleenex, Palmolive, and Pepso-dent. His skill wasn’t...
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- November 1994
- Case
VideoGuide, Inc. (A)
By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green
VideoGuide is emerging from a development stage start-up and requires a significant capital infusion to commercialize its product. Various financing options are considered including going public, venture capital, private placement, or a strategic partner. Given the...
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Capital Budgeting;
Capital;
Venture Capital;
Financing and Loans;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Initial Public Offering;
Markets;
Partners and Partnerships;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Going Public
Sahlman, William A., and Jason Green. "VideoGuide, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 295-051, November 1994.