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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
next technology that would unleash this cycle of market creation, market exuberance, and then, eventually, demands for regulation. After giving this question a great deal of thought, I became convinced that the next great cycle of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
important purchases and the consumption dilemmas that lead friends to seek my advice, they rarely deal with buying products such as toothpaste, breakfast cereal, or washing machines. I am not arguing that this section of the economy is... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
asked his students. The class quickly reached consensus: Parker’s great, the idea is great, the context is pretty good—despite volatile interest rates—but from an investor’s point of view, the deal stinks. Well, true enough—except that... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- Web
Pitchbook | Baker Library
data downloads. Profile views are limited to 250 per day. Faculty and staff with Harvard University account codes can purchase additional data download capabilities of 1000 daily/2000 monthly rows of company, deal or fund data and 500... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the subject of service design has not been very visible in the research literature. There... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Evolution of Agribusiness
being low-margin commodity producers to higher-margin providers of "solutions." The future for this massive industry will be both exciting and complex. To feed the world, production must double by 2050, while dealing with... View Details
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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
which is what I'll experience in my career. I think the so-called "softer" courses in management and human resources are very important. Talking to alumni, they say a big percentage of their time is spent dealing with people... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
With a final deal reached on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), prepare for another cacophony of protest in Congress that America is signing away jobs to other parts of the world. The naysayers will be overlooking one small fact. Even... View Details
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
banker who has spent months and months and months analyzing a particular deal between two companies can spend only a few minutes making a hiring decision for his team, when the firm is sometimes paying millions of dollars in guaranteed... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
grow companies. Earlier this year we launched our buyout fund focused on scaling mature companies in the sector, which I now co-lead. Can you give me an example of a deal you’ve worked on recently? We’re just closing on our first View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
second office at Manhattan’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza. She’d just finished a breakfast meeting with advertising clients and was preparing to return to CNBC’s Fort Lee, New Jersey, headquarters when the first plane struck the World Trade Center. “In retrospect, none of us... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
listening is done in the car. “Distribution ubiquity and that ease of use—what radio has always been—is what we’re after,” says Kennedy, who has inked deals with major automakers to integrate Pandora into their vehicles. To date, 125... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
government has run it as a for-profit corporation, increasing safety and decreasing costs along the way. Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face — and What to Do About It by Richard S. Tedlow (Portfolio) Professor emeritus Tedlow View Details
- Profile
Tricia Lee
experience shaped your goals & career path? It's amazing how many avenues HBS provides to explore careers that are even the slightest bit interesting. I spent a great deal of time investigating options, just for curiosity sake -... View Details
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Daniel Sheyner
is what I want to do." PE PREP The most common question in private equity interviews? "Walk me through your past deals," says Sheyner. An ideal answer shows you know both the facts of the deal and that you have an opinion... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Africa Business Club
awareness in the HBS community about investment and other business opportunities on the continent with the aim of creating more ventures and deals in Africa. Integrate the coverage of African countries and businesses into the HBS... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
choosing group members, establishing norms, and dealing with conflicts to evaluating progress and deciding when it’s time to restructure. Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Cespedes says the students in the course learn to deal with the reality that “selling is always more about the buyer than it is about the seller.” Recalling his own experience as a young entrepreneur, Roberge elaborates: “Like a lot of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
dealing with conflicts of interest, and setting an ethical tone within an organization. 2003 Alumni Achievement Awards James E. Burke (MBA ’49), chairman and CEO emeritus of Johnson & Johnson, where he spent almost forty years helping... View Details
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
role of economic, geographic, and demographic factors, I find that poorer areas have significantly higher levels of conflict intensity. The paper reviews the various approaches taken by governments to deal with conflict, contrasting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace