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William R. Kerr

William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill served as Unit Head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit from 2020-2023. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing...

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William A. Sahlman

William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business Economics (1982), also from Harvard. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980. His research focuses on the investment and financing...

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William E. Fruhan

Professor WILLIAM E. FRUHAN, JR. is George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University. He has served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Development; Chairman of the Executive Education Advanced Management Program; Chairman of the Finance Area at the School; and as...

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William C. Kirby

William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, the University's academic venture fund for China, and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai, Harvard's first...

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William C. Vrattos

Bill Vrattos is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of York Capital Management, a global alternative asset manager founded in 1991. During his 20+ years at York, he has started and run equity and credit businesses in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining York, Bill was a portfolio manager and analyst at Georgica Advisors, an alternative asset manager based in New York. He...

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William J. Poorvu

William Poorvu is the Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He taught and was responsible for the real estate courses there for 35 years. He was the school's first adjunct professor, its first adjunct professor with a named chair and the first non-tenured professor at Harvard University to be given Emeritus status. He also was on the faculty...

01 Sep 2014
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The Next Lessons

Khan Academy began in 2004 as a family favor: To help his teenaged cousins understand a few math concepts, hedge fund analyst Salman Khan (MBA 2003) offered after-school math tutoring via phone calls and explainer videos. A decade later, Khan Academy has become an... View Details

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Archie A. Alexander Alexander & Repass, 1914–1954 Henry C. Alexander Morgan Guaranty Trust, 1959–1967 William M. Allen Boeing Company, 1945–1969 Howard L. Aller American Power and Light Company, 1935–1951 Stanley C. Allyn National Cash... View Details

Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

co-founded in... October 2024 Case Ranger Energy Services: Bridging Public & Private Markets By: Joseph Pacelli , Ravi Ramniklal Gondalia and James Weber In August of 2017, CSL Capital, a private equity fund founded and operated by... View Details

Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Resources. An All-American basketball player in college, Archibald is a graduate of Weber State University in Utah. This fund is to be awarded to deserving MBA students who are graduates of Brigham Young University and who are married... View Details

Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Article Entrepreneurship as Experimentation By: William R. Kerr , Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Entrepreneurship research is on the rise, but many questions about its fundamental nature still... View Details

Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Performance By: V. Kasturi Rangan Aug 2010 | ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNUAL MEETING PROCEEDINGS Classic Cases City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter & James Weber 2018 | CASE | HBS CASE COLLECTION Subjects covered... View Details

Finance - Faculty & Research

William A. Sahlman Robert S. Kaplan Kenneth A. Froot Laura Alfaro Benjamin C. Esty Robert C. Merton Andre F. Perold W. Carl Kester Stuart C. Gilson George Serafeim See All Seminars & Conferences Nov 20 20 Nov 2024 HBS Finance Unit/Harvard... View Details

Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching. Rakesh Khurana : Won the 2008 Max Weber Award for Best Book from the American Sociological Association Section on Organization, Occupations and Work for his book... View Details

February 2015 (Revised February 2017)
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Winnan Metal: Fulfilling the Dream

By: William R. Kerr, Jim Sharpe and James Weber

Neil Kashyap and Neil Lombardo (HBS '08) acquired Winnan Metal, Inc., a metal fabrication shop, after raising a search fund and an 11 month search to fulfill their dreams of becoming business owners. Two weeks after they took control of the company, Winnan's largest... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial Management; Turnarounds; Bank Loan; Crisis Management; Financial Analysis; Search Funds; Acquisitions; Financial Capital Needed; Management; Operations Management; Sales; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Change Management; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Indiana

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12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber Abstract—There is a growing body of... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Cannabis Workforce Development program in the City of Oakland, California. Verónica received a joint PhD in Psychology and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan and a BA in Psychology with concentrations in Africana Studies and Latin@ Studies from View Details