Healthcare As An Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

performance, the researchers say. Founders are usually very busy people—they recruit key employees, raise funds, find a board, develop partnerships, set strategy, and design the organization, to name a few responsibilities. What often falls by the wayside View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Summers as the successor to Ben Bernanke. That saga left many people in business and finance concerned. If politicians in Washington, DC, are having an argument about something View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Essentially, environmental justice can be defined as working to combat climate change and promote climate resilience and investing in the green economy in a way that creates good, well-paying jobs, with a... View Details

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

increased correlations of discount rate shocks resulting from financial globalization as the main driver of the upward shift in stock return correlations. We also identify increased correlations of inflation shocks View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

Conversely, if the orchard option begins to look as if it won't pan out, Jim might negotiate more cautiously with the Abbott executor. In short, your investment in the deal you don't reach isn't wasted if... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

06 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1

it’s one of their only chances to be in a class outside of their sectionmates, and for both RCs and ECs (second year, Elective Curriculum) to learn together in the same classroom. Offerings this year include an in-depth look at Formula... View Details

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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

with outside organizations should not be driven by input costs, taxes, subsidies or even the wage rates for scientists and engineers, as they often are. Instead, R&D investments should flow preferentially to... View Details

16 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

an inflection point. Laitsas found that he had learned a great deal from investment banking but didn’t see himself in the industry long-term. As a way to hit the reset button... View Details

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo

fund for low-income students from his community that is still active nearly 20 years later. As an undergraduate he was president of the Harvard College Democrats, interned at the White House Office of Public... View Details

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New Venture Competition | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Solara Sacerdote Grand Prize Winner, Social Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition 1_rwoq7e70 Trans Health HQ Sacerdote Runner-Up Prize Winner, Social Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition 1_fzd3exaa The Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture... View Details

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

world wants the United States to be competitive. For more than a century, global observers have considered the U.S. economy to be an exemplar and America a country to envy and imitate. Unfortunately, America's reign View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

instability and related consequences to the healthcare infrastructure. India’s primary healthcare system is the backbone of public health infrastructure, serving as the first... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

from Harvard Business School. Alejandra is also an angel investor and Shark on Shark Tank Mexico, where she has invested in over 25 startups, primarily in e-commerce and food & beverage. Her experience has... View Details

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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds

investment stage under Quick Filters. Begin typing Industry in the Add Filter text box under Quick Filters. Make a selection (NAIC Industry or SIC Industry recommended). Make your industry selection(s). Add other criteria View Details

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

offers incentives - in the form of credits or allowances - for states that either meet their goals early or exceed the reduction requirements. Nuclear power plays a role in the Clean Power Plan, along with renewable energy sources such as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

is by assessing companies in terms of their social performance and corporate social responsibility efforts. The funds try to screen out the bad companies and invest in the good ones. If CSR efforts are supposed to enhance financial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

end of the hong monopolies. The Chinese comprador, who served as a trading house employee and manager and sometimes as an independent merchant, became the essential go-between... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

engineer, worked as process engineer at ArcelorMittal where her daily vocabulary included terms like ‘electrogalvanizing’ and ‘laser flatness’, while Adam, who holds an AB and MS in English and is a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

difficult to study. When VC companies invest in an idea that later becomes successful, it’s hard to know whether that is because the idea was inherently a good one, or because the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

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