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16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

investment firm Act III Holdings, said that although sales at restaurants in his investment portfolio were initially down more than 80 percent, he’s seen incremental improvements each week as more locations implement creative ways to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

06 Jul 2011
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Are You a Level-Six Leader?

percent of revenue, down from 6 percent during the 1990s, the Carly Fiorina/Mark Hurd team "saved" HP about $4 billion—about the equivalent of half the profits earned during Hurd's last year. HP's once formidable technological... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

also an area of heavy growth. As the 1980s ushered in the rise of high-tech research and start-ups, Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. helped finance Cetus, an early biotech firm, as well as Intel, which created the first microprocessor. Advances in computer View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

to the Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy Gordon Jones , President, College of Western Idaho (CWI) Building the workforce is critical to scaling climate ventures, to valuation, and to public uptake of climate technologies both... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

Start-up culture and operations · Business model development · Team building and coaching · New business development Industry Consumer Products and Services (B2C), Technology Verticals Beauty, E-Commerce, FemTech, Lifestyles of Health and... View Details

21 Jul 2022
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Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

jumped after the first two stimulus payments hit in April 2020 and January 2021, driven by retail investor buying, says research by Harvard Business School Professor Robin Greenwood. "We've been through this extraordinary period in the markets, where the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Tort Liability and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence By: Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54705 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Social Risk, Fiscal Risk, and the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Research - Private Capital Project

Capital's investment committee evaluated a potential investment in the technology sector. The proposed transaction centered on Ping Identity Corporation (“Ping”), a fast-growing identity access management (IAM) software company that... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

performance, because we know technology is higher risk, and we'd expect it to have a higher return," Modigliani explains. "But we might want to know how the portfolios performed after adjusting for the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health

By: Ranjay Gulati, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Ashley Whillans, Allison Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean

In December 2023, the 60-year-old weight management industry stalwart WeightWatchers announced the launch of WeightWatchers Clinic, which incorporated GLP-1s , a new class of prescription weight-loss medications, into the company’s portfolio of products and mobile app... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)

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20 May 2014
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Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2388716 Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity By: Forman, Chris,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

that come with getting venture capital funding. A corporate explorer also has constraints. But they already have a customer base. They already have a brand. They already often have the very technology and product assets they need to put... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

23 May 2018
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Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, majoring in art history, a subject that helped her “look at things from many different angles,” she says. “My father was interested in technology and impressed upon me how important it was... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Ahmed Alimi

Advisory Services, FBN Capital, and Helios Investment Partners. "At Helios," Ahmed says, "I had a unique opportunity to work on deals as well as support value creation efforts at our portfolio companies. I worked closely... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

the VELUX Foundations of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to assist... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

from fossil fuel power stations. With significant cost declines in recent years, solar and wind have become cost competitive with fossil fuels in many places. In addition, hydropower, wave, geothermal, and biomass technologies have... View Details

23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

transformation strategies that can be executed in the capital market. Over the period 1960–2016, we find that (1) unlevered bank assets underperform passive portfolios of maturity-matched U.S. Treasury bonds; (2) the cost of bank deposits... View Details