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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
industry that is well known but not well understood. Bussgang should know the material: He is general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston and currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at HBS. The book explains the different ways... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
A New Ecosystem for Business and Society
In their opening comments at the IS2K conference, Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark called forth, respectively, the spirits of the industrial past and the high-tech future to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Thalia Rey (MBA 2025)
related to MBA Admissions, alumni engagement, career development, and more to advocate for and empower the Latino community on campus and beyond. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked LASO members to share what being Latino at HBS... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Firm Dynamics Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm level data set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of Industrial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to have a profound, life-altering... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible for them. In telling the... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
Gold Illustration by David Cowles Leslie Goldbloom (MBA ’85), aka Leslie Gold, the RadioChick, first established herself in the male-dominated world of talk radio as cohost of Two Chicks Dishing on Boston’s WRKO in the mid-1990s. She later moved to New York’s WNEW,... View Details
- May 2003
- Case
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
By: Rajiv Lal, Walter J. Salmon and Edie Prescott
Discusses the business portfolio emphasis of a large multibrand manufacturer and the future of department stores as well as how relationships between manufacturers and key customers can be improved. View Details
- January 1994 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
EMC Corporation: Response to Shareholder Litigation (A)
By: Josh Lerner
EMC Corp. is the target of a shareholder class-action lawsuit for the second time. CEO, Richard Egan, must decide whether to settle the case, as is done in 96% of such cases and as EMC itself did previously, or fight the action. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Lawsuits and Litigation; Going Public; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technology Industry; United States
Lerner, Josh. "EMC Corporation: Response to Shareholder Litigation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 294-070, January 1994. (Revised April 1995.)
- April 2016
- Teaching Note
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-130. This Teaching Note accompanies the third case in a 3-case series on P-TECH and the Reinvention of High School. The case focuses on the development and early diffusion of organizational innovation—how to create pilot projects for... View Details
- February 2006 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
AIDS in Brazil
By: Rohit Deshpande and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Abbott Labs has reached an impasse with the Brazilian government in negotiations over the pricing of a new anti-AIDS drug, Kaletra. The Brazilian government threatens compulsory licensing unless Abbott drastically reduces the price of Kaletra. View Details
Keywords: Price; Government and Politics; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Rights; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Brazil
Deshpande, Rohit, and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "AIDS in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 506-062, February 2006. (Revised February 2009.)
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
Through contemporary examples from a variety of industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Does the Law and Finance Hypothesis Pass the Test of History?
By: Aldo Musacchio and John D. Turner
For the body of work known as the law and finance literature, the development of
financial markets and the concentration of ownership across countries is to a large
extent the consequence of the legal system nations created or inherited decades or
hundreds of years... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Business History; Financial Markets; Financial History; Business and Shareholder Relations; Law; Financial Services Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo, and John D. Turner. "Does the Law and Finance Hypothesis Pass the Test of History?" Special Issue on Law and Finance: A Business History Perspective. Business History 55, no. 4 (June 2013): 524–542.
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and Service Management units.... View Details
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
Product Manager managing Hewlett-Packard's future platforms, Noa knew she loved technology but felt as she was still not pursuing her passion from an industry perspective. Yet for Noa, HBS wasn’t a place for taking aim at her next... View Details
- June 2022
- Teaching Note
Katie Couric Media: Landing the First Client
By: N. Louis Shipley, William R. Kerr and Paige Boehmcke
Developed for teaching Entrepreneurial Sales, the Katie Couric Media case supports class discussion on client selection, sales strategy, and scaling a startup media firm. View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
the footwear industry. So when a well-respected industry leader asked to talk about a merger, Cabot had to admit that with her "crisis of confidence," it might just be time. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 1996 (Revised January 1997)
- Case
Zambia's Agricultural Sector Investment Program
By: George C. Lodge and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Keywords: Agribusiness; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Zambia
Lodge, George C., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Zambia's Agricultural Sector Investment Program." Harvard Business School Case 797-023, September 1996. (Revised January 1997.)
- Web
Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
succeed. "Getting the venture capital field off the ground... was as risky as the new industries it would invest in..." author and analyst Kenneth Fisher argues. "[Doriot] staked both reputation and money in an effort to prove his idea... View Details