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- 22 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 22
Act may reduce the burdens associated with going public while at the same time making it easier for EMGs to remain private. In addition to the so-called "IPO On-Ramp" and "crowdfunding," the Note briefly discusses the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
on comedy writing at the People’s Improv Theater in addition to writing for Monk, a USA Network weekly comedy-mystery series. Toplyn and his wife, Sherry, are the parents of two teenage sons. As an undergrad, I worked on the Harvard...
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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
empirical sense of “what works” in solving them. As such, this year's programming revolves around sharing programmatic, organizational, and financial solutions for social enterprises at every level of sophistication, from startup to growth to maturity. In View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
and received an additional $10 million in venture capital last year.) In part, that was because Wall Street had long maintained well-funded IT departments that soaked up much of the financially savvy talent who would otherwise have...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
to strengthen our global research capabilities. We are grateful to Novartis for supporting this significant goal." The gift, which funds a four-year program that will include additional fellows, stems from a decade-long relationship...
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Anne Kavanagh
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
comparison to a store that is having a sale." In fact, customer behavior in general—unpredictable under the best of circumstances—becomes even more erratic during liquidation events, he notes. For their work with Gordon Brothers Group, Craig and Raman developed a...
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- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
wrote. “They are too general to cause a reasonable investor to rely upon them.” That’s typical of the way that many people and even employees view codes of conduct, says Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
often visiting company parking lots; businesses have been one of Yoshi’s best customers, paying the service’s monthly subscription fee as a job perk for their employees. Yoshi’s eliminate-the-gas-station model has also attracted the...
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- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often not made clear. We then review...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
especially those with widely diversified product portfolios, are a dominant and critical enterprise model in emerging and developing economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
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Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce...
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- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
capital, when strategically deployed, can really speed up social change,” he said. With those two experiences in mind, Mbanusi applied to business school with an eye towards impact investing. “I wanted to explore what it would look like to be part of a new View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad
of these buildings are functionally obsolete,” says John Macomber, a senior lecturer in finance at HBS and the coauthor of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well. The former chairman and CEO of a large View Details
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Jonathan Evans
career? HBS has prepared me for my career by cultivating a general management perspective. I have always admired leaders who appreciated the big picture and intuitively understood the interdependencies across decisions, priorities, and...
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Marie Kyle
Clinton Health Access Initiative, "sparked a passion for the development sector," says Marie. But she wasn't satisfied with the standard aid packages she saw in emerging markets. "I wanted to look at ideas outside the traditional foreign-aid View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
emerging technologies, new business models resulting from broadband deployment, security concerns, regulatory obstacles, and other subjects. In Their Time The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century by Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin...
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Financial Highlights - Financial Report 2018
2017. The value of the School’s endowment (after the net impact of distributions from the endowment and the addition of new gifts) increased to $3.8 billion, from $3.5 billion a year earlier. Capital investments in campus facilities and...
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- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
experiences of General Electric alumni who went to new companies. Among the findings: "Even gifted executives with the best and most admired management training don't necessarily make star CEOs," the authors report. This excerpt...
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- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
argue that inertial forces generally constrict how TMTs perceive innovations but that frame flexibility can overcome these constraints, increasing the likelihood of adoption and broadening the organization's innovation practices. We...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
Cynthia Samanian came to HBS with a clear sense of purpose, in her words, "to pave a path to entrepreneurship." She had been working in finance at General Electric but wanted to be more involved in the creative side of business....
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