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Sebastian Velasco

woman," says Sebastian. "When I was a baby, my mom took me to her office. I have pictures of me there when I was four, five months old." Sebastian spent his after-school hours in her office. "When I got older, she explained what she was doing: View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

equity firms have billions of dollars of investible cash—although whether any of these investors have the appetite to risk their capital in the present environment is yet to be determined. And of course, an effective cure or vaccine for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

23 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang

August 2021 (Revised November 2021)
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The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Gamze Yucaoglu, Shalene Gupta and Fares Khrais

The case opens in 2019, five years after, Sarah Al Suhaimi, CEO of NCB Capital (NCBC), the investment arm of Saudi’s largest bank, NCB, took the helm. Having successfully turned the business to make it the market leader, she was contemplating her next steps as... View Details

Keywords: Turnaround; Investment Banking; Financial Institutions; Change Management; Leadership; Business Model; Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Management Teams; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia

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The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

unconsciously perhaps, between potentially harming his client (and himself) by challenging a company's accounts or harming faceless investors by failing to object to the possibly skewed numbers. Given this tension, auditors may... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

from startups or iterating on existing technology with “me-too” products and short development cycles. He cites an oft-quoted maxim of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to describe the reigning zeitgeist among startups and investors to “move... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

McDonald and others in academia call a cognitive referent. Simply put, a cognitive referent is the king of its category. More importantly, it enjoys all kinds of benefits over competitors further down the brand-recognition chain. The smartest people want to work there.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

mentors, investors in the Boston area (including my current Entrepreneurial Finance professor, Jim Matheson!), and fellow entrepreneurs passionate about addressing climate challenges. I’m also really thankful to my sectionmate Shardule... View Details

11 Aug 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements

Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

together in more of a classical reseller model. "Having started as an MSP, the challenge [for thredUP] is that you have to go back to investors to explain that you're going to pivot to a much higher-cost model," Hagiu says, "since being a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

November 2022
Teaching Note

Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms

By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan

Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

but it's harder for U.S. investors to satisfy their return criteria, because the best deals are taken by the overseas Chinese.” Biggest disappointment: “That I'm not going to live long enough to do everything I'd like to do.” Proudest... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

2013, analysts scoffed, saying the move reeked of an older, dynastic India. Infosys responded swiftly, assuring investors that the younger Murthy would not receive special treatment. Nisa faced another challenge: upending business as... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

Business School Prior to coming to HBS I created a company Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. that advised some of the world’s largest institutional investors concerning their private market investments. I was asked to be their advocate... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

business where every milestone reduces risk and reassures investors that a developer can return capital, all of this comes as welcome news. But Dlodlo and her backers at the Reinvestment Fund agree that government support (grants,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Participants will leave this session with a deeper understanding of the vast array of ways in which managers, executives, and investors can invest in human capital more efficiently. Improving Your Brain at Any Age Professor Lee Rubin &... View Details

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

remained engaged. “On the surface, YouTube’s business model appears to be the work of genius. But it has posed problems.” According to Google investor John Doerr, she inherited a stretch goal set in 2012 to increase viewer engagement by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

10 Feb 2016
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