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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author... View Details

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

appeared in the 2007 film Juno—was eager to share the study results with her husband to point out that hiring a housecleaner just might create more marital harmony. “If two partners are busy working full time outside the home, you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

whenever possible. This will generate greater long-term commitment to organizations, she says. “Great leaders will share their own struggles about adjusting to their partners being on conference calls in the next room,” Austin says.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School as well as co-founder and general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. You Might Also... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

poorer, emerging economies to curtail their fossil fuel use. Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994) General Partner, MPower Partners Maximizing What Japan Has to Offer BIO As manifestations of climate change intensify around the world, Japan’s... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

held by Harvard Business School’s Baker Library which we envisage will be used by researchers a century in the future. That said, many of the lessons that come out of the interviews deal with issues that are highly relevant now. Can we View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 07 Mar 2024
Webinars: Career

Job Search 2.0: LinkedIn + ChatGPT Secrets Revealed

Jeremy Schifeling will dive into the most advanced LinkedIn and ChatGPT techniques to help alumni find a career path, build a fully tech-optimized profile, and ace your very next interview. View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

to be a portfolio manager at Morgan.” Proudest moment: “July 17, 1996, when my husband and I got remarried after having been divorced since 1990.” Carl Ferenbach Ill Managing Director Berkshire Partners LLC Boston, Massachusetts After his... View Details

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

boutiques? (Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs at first, in spite of all the advance publicity.) Is it better to partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

search firms in the world, with billings last year of almost $300 million. Applicants-all of whom must have an advanced degree such as an MBA or Ph.D.-face a gauntlet of 25 to 35 interviews with partners and associates in at least 3 of... View Details

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

people. They go in all these wonderful directions, and it changes their lives. I just want to spread that around.” Be A Leader also partners with several colleges and universities to provide individual support throughout the admissions,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

to get more people excited (and empowered!) to solve climate challenges, whether as a career or in their personal lives. We’re broadening our reach this year by partnering with the Energy & Environment Club and the Sustainability Club... View Details

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

literally last night, Lycos Labs. Our goal will be to partner with angels, VCs, universities, in a fashion whereby several young companies will get the opportunity to start their business on our campus here in the Waltham area."... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Administration Amy W. Schulman joined Harvard Business School’s Faculty as a Senior Lecturer in July 2014.In addition to her responsibilities at Harvard, Ms. Schulman is a managing partner at Polaris Partners, who focuses on investing in... View Details

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

works, where there are usually a small number of partners in a group that all specialize in one industry.” It may be more important for entrepreneurs to quickly develop a prototype for a minimum viable product and get early feedback from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

05 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

like. Plan for any limitations on your ability to move away from Boston for summer internships and consider your job search and networking efforts accordingly. Overall, HLS and HBS are very supportive of students with families, and View Details

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

remembers. "Eventually, the IRS found a way to grant the status." Innovation Laboratories In the past five years, cities around the world have increasingly become laboratories in innovation, producing idea labs that partner with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

February 2021 (Revised April 2024)
Case

Shopify: The Conquest for Chinese E-Commerce

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Avani Patel, Samantha Lin and Ariel Yang

In mid-2020, Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify, faced a critical decision on how to time potential expansion into the China market. Over the prior 15 years, his Canadian software-as-a-service company had grown from a small e-commerce solutions provider to a full service... View Details

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22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

strategy look like? The financing that we were able to assemble for this acquisition is interim financing, which gives us five years to figure that out. Part of the process we’re engaged in now with our partners is to say, What’s the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

August 2024
Case

Oculii

By: Andy Wu and Lucas Defilippo

It was a bright June day in 2016. Steven Hong, co-founder and COO of Oculii had just signed a letter of intent agreeing to a 51% stake acquisition by Nexteer Automotive, a global steering and driveline supplier company that developed advanced driver assistance systems... View Details