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- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-119. Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level... View Details
Andy Wu
Andy Wu is the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers... View Details
Ray Kluender
Ray Kluender is an associate professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Berol Corporation Fellow at Harvard Business School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel... View Details
Reza R. Satchu
Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, The Founder Mindset and Founder Launch. He is also the Founder, Managing Partner and majority shareholder of... View Details
- 22 Apr 2016
- HBS Seminar
Dr. Milt McColl, MD, Gauss Surgical, CEO
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
more likely to form between the lead venture capital firm and distant investors as the size of the syndicate grows, thus decreasing the risk associated with each organization's... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mass General Brigham Diversify Its Community of Innovators?
- March 2010 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Design Creates Fortune: 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard
By: John D. Macomber and Griffin James
A real estate developer assesses its ability to capture the benefits of investing in LEED Platinum, Vedic Design, and EnergyStar components in new buildings. The building at 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard in Rockville, Maryland is said to be the healthiest building in the... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Cost vs Benefits; Energy Conservation; Construction; Investment; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leasing; Renting or Rental; Value Creation; Real Estate Industry; Maryland
Macomber, John D., and Griffin James. "Design Creates Fortune: 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard." Harvard Business School Case 210-070, March 2010. (Revised May 2010.)
- 18 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS
After five years working in venture capital and private equity, Laura Little (MBA 2015) was eager to make a career change. With a budding interest in early-stage healthcare, Laura enrolled at HBS to pursue... View Details
- July–August 2018
- Article
The Other Diversity Dividend
By: Paul Gompers and Silpa Kovvali
Researchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance—especially at large companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors... View Details
Gompers, Paul, and Silpa Kovvali. "The Other Diversity Dividend." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 72–77.
- February 2017
- Module Note
Leading Global Teams
By: Tsedal Neeley
This module aims to help students become effective leaders and members of global teams that must work together across national boundaries and toward a common goal. Students will learn to diagnose the challenges that global teams often face as well as strategies that... View Details
Neeley, Tsedal. "Leading Global Teams." Harvard Business School Module Note 417-073, February 2017. (https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/417073-PDF-ENG?Ntt=tsedal%20neeley.)
- Spring 2016
- Article
Risk Neglect in Equity Markets
By: Malcolm Baker
The link between measures of risk and return within the equity market has been very weak over the past 47 years: in the United States, returns on high-risk stocks have cumulatively fallen short of the returns on low-risk stocks, during a period when the equity market... View Details
Baker, Malcolm. "Risk Neglect in Equity Markets." Journal of Portfolio Management 42, no. 3 (Spring 2016): 12–25.
- November 1988 (Revised September 1991)
- Case
Simmons Japan Ltd.
By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
Concerns the first leveraged buyout to occur in Japan. Analytic tasks include a valuation of the company and an assessment of its debt capacity. Also provides opportunities to discuss agency costs associated with alternative capital and equity ownership structures,... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Cost; Equity; Production; Valuation; Japan; United States
Kester, W. Carl, and Richard P. Melnick. "Simmons Japan Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 289-001, November 1988. (Revised September 1991.)
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
the problem is that people usually focus on an entrepreneurial ‘personality’ rather than identifying the unique skills and behaviors of entrepreneurs who launch and grow their own firms.” Complicating this understanding are the many types of entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
Wasserman, Furqan Nazeeri, and Kyle AndersonHarvard Business School Note 810-119 This note offers a new approach to venture capital term-sheet negotiations, with actionable steps based on insights from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Christopher T. Stanton
Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details
- August 2020 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
From Farm Boy to Financier: Eiichi Shibusawa and the Creation of Modern Japan
By: Geoffrey Jones, Gabriel Ellsworth and Ryo Takahashi
This case describes the career of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), a serial entrepreneur who is widely known as the “father of Japanese capitalism” and as a pioneer of socially responsible investment. Born in feudal Edo Japan, following the Meiji Restoration in 1868... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Business History; Ethics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economy; Society; Japan
Jones, Geoffrey, Gabriel Ellsworth, and Ryo Takahashi. "From Farm Boy to Financier: Eiichi Shibusawa and the Creation of Modern Japan." Harvard Business School Case 321-043, August 2020. (Revised July 2021.)
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
synergies as well as a recently added contingent value right (CVR) designed to “sweeten” the offer and decide how to respond. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-068 Saudi Aramco and Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Rosabeth M. Kanter
Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details
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- 2013
- Chapter
The Welfare State as an Investment Strategy: Denmark’s Flexicurity Policies
By: Arthur Daemmrich and Thomas Bredgaard
This chapter examines how the welfare state can serve as a national strategy to invest in economic competitiveness and sustainable national prosperity, as well as the significant challenges associated with operating an open economy in a period of increased labor... View Details
Keywords: Open Economy; Welfare; Competitive Advantage; Economic Growth; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Denmark
Daemmrich, Arthur, and Thomas Bredgaard. "The Welfare State as an Investment Strategy: Denmark’s Flexicurity Policies." Chap. 7 in The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment, by Ashok Bardhan, Dwight M. Jaffee, and Cynthia A. Kroll, 159–179. Oxford University Press, 2013.