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- January 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
iZumi
By: Robert F. Higgins, Jacob Ian Broder-Fingert, Eliot Sherman and Sidhartha Palani
Presents the issues faced while building an innovative company in an emerging space with new intellectual property from the perspective of a venture capitalist. Beth Seidenberg, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), had helped...
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Junior Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Intangibles, Intellectual Capital, and Sustainability by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management at the 2022 EIASM Interdisciplinary Conference for “Regulated Human View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
comprised the majority in most schools until quite recently, regarded this industry as a feminine domain and rather frivolous, and felt more comfortable writing about software or venture capital than lipstick and face powder. As female...
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- 2012
- Discussion Paper
Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades
By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s...
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Nomura, Koji, and Tomomichi Amano. "Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades." Discussion Paper, Keio Economic Observatory, 2012.
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion...
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- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50588 forthcoming Marketing Science Minimum Advertised Pricing: Patterns of Violation in Competitive Retail Markets By: Israeli, Ayelet, Eric Anderson, and Anne...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Could Bring Globalization Down?
preoccupied by the similarities between our own time and the pre-1914 period. That the years 1880–1914 were the "first age of globalization" is now quite a widely accepted idea among economic historians. The data on trade, View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 28 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Climate Custodians
By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
Can custody banks become key players in climate change? Custody banks joining the battle against climate change will signal a significant shift in governance ideology for this highly regulated industry so critical to the global financial system. While global custody...
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Pollutants;
Climate Change;
Capital Markets;
Investment Banking;
Institutional Investing;
Policy
Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans. "The Climate Custodians." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-138, June 2016.
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
stepping back and consciously looking at a problem from a variety of perspectives. The managers Badaracco interviewed did this in a wide range of ways. Some tried to vividly imagine the everyday consequences of choosing among two...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Leadership - Faculty & Research
Benefits ; Forecasting and Prediction ; Business Cycles ; Entrepreneurship ; Fairness ; Capital Markets ; Private Equity ; Investment Banking ; Stock Options ; Financial View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
payments to its pension fund and drawn down all the fund’s cash until there was nothing left but a $50 billion unfunded liability. Capital markets had deemed the island an unacceptable risk. “They had lost...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
profits (or worse, the short-term benefits come at the expense of long-term value creation). This phenomenon does not come out of the blue, but is attributable to fundamental frictions in capital markets...
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Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Q1 1.5 Capitalism and the State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Creating the Modern Financial System David Moss Spring...
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- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
managers to kick off the holiday shopping season. I always find the simplicity and humanity of the answers striking. Often, managers talk about friends, family, and colleagues. For a market retail field trainer, it is “being able to see...
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- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
neuroscientist and assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, who conducted the research with Baba Shiv, a marketing professor and neuroeconomics expert at Stanford University's...
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- November 2015
- Case
Rubicon Global
By: William A. Sahlman and Hunter Ashmore
The case describes Rubicon Global, a startup that aimed to disrupt the waste management industry. The company started with a bold idea: create a cloud-based, full-service waste management company providing low-cost, highly efficient, and environmentally friendly...
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Entrepreneurial Finance;
Rubicon;
Rubicon Global;
Waste Management;
Startups;
Disruptive Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Entrepreneurship;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Business Startups;
Corporate Finance;
Service Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Hunter Ashmore. "Rubicon Global." Harvard Business School Case 816-015, November 2015.
- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
consequences of what they are doing." Such snap decisions can result in geo-mistakes that sap energy out of an organization and cause it to lose focus on what it was doing well in the first place. Geographic expansion should provide...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Sprout Solutions
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
Husband-and-wife co-founders Patrick and Alexandria Gentry had built Sprout Solutions to be one of the biggest Software-as-a-Service human resources management platforms in the Philippines, guided by the mission to "impact the life of every Filipino by improving...
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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational...
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Sean Silverthorne