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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
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KHP’s investment strategy, if at all? MD: This downturn is terrible for the travel business, to be sure, but it does create significant investment opportunities. Our strategy has always been to find an... View Details
- 28 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
support emerging talents, I quit my job and embarked on another entrepreneurial journey. I co-founded Meridian Ventures—an early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise SaaS startups. At Meridian,... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
including taking Fannie and Freddie out of the investment business, simplifying mortgage disclosure documents, consolidating the federal government's highly fractured financial services regulatory agencies, and requiring that financial... View Details
- February 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Taffi was a tech-enabled fashion styling startup founded by Shahad Geoffrey in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Within three years of operating, Geoffrey had pivoted the business multiple times. In 2023, Geoffrey was attempting the business’s most ambitious pivot yet, shifting... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Fashion Industry; Technology Industry; Saudi Arabia; Arabian Peninsula
Gompers, Paul A., and Fares Khrais. "Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia." Harvard Business School Case 224-052, February 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
he's seen improvements in the way reinsurers distribute risk over the last two decades, he still questions whether reinsurers in their current form can survive a major catastrophic event. "Reinsurers assume the risk of, and hold the View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Power Play
Courtesy Rahul Advani, Sara Graziano, Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1996, focused on the energy sector, he thought a future of accessible and affordable clean energy was a ways off. But as he... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
Curiel: Investing in young people who grew up as migrant farmworkers. Photo courtesy Martin Curiel Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) wants you to invest in dreams. Through the Rising Farmworkers Dream Fund (RFDF),... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
also be an opportunity for established firms to enter the new industry. In the paper we emphasize that capital generally needs to stay in place for some period of time: You don't want to see your investment... View Details
Brandon Farwell
Brandon Farwell is a General Partner at Xfund. Prior to Xfund, he was an Investment Professional at DFJ focused on software investments including Box (NYSE: BOX), Yammer (acq., MSFT), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO),... View Details
Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
not invest sufficient capital in their own businesses. Either: a) They can't. b) They won't. 2. Women lack fundamental business skills and experience: a) They do not have strong math skills. b) They have... View Details
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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design
coursework. That helps our information research staff to understand the context of your question. Research topics Suggested Resources Company/Competitors Capital IQ Profiles and data on public, private companies and View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
Courtesy Rahul Advani Courtesy Sara Graziano Courtesy Chris Smith Courtesy Rahul Advani Courtesy Sara Graziano Courtesy Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1997, focused on the energy sector, he thought... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
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Entrepreneurship | MBA
# 1 program for Companies Founded, Capital Raised, Female Founders, and Number of Founders 50 % of alumni create at least one venture in a quest to change the world 14 % of the Class of 2024 started their own business directly after... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
"locked-in," but because the commercial firm deploys a "divide and conquer" strategy to attract early adopters and exploit late adopters. To capitalize on its first-mover advantage, the commercial firm must increase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Depression? By: Nanda, Ramana, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
restructuring that left the Panigoros with a 34.1 percent equity stake in Medco. Two other large shareholders are now looking to sell their combined stake of 50.9 percent, and have selected Temasek, the Singapore government's investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
sensitivity of investment is lower in countries with better-developed financial markets. This suggests that financial development may mitigate financial constraints. This effect is weaker in conglomerate subsidiaries, which are likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding the language of business
When the late James F. Rothenberg (AB 1968, MBA 1970) arrived at HBS, the recently graduated Harvard College English major had to learn the intricacies of accounting as well as the language of business. These skills served him well during his 44-year career at View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
startup, that’s because he is. In addition to serving as president of the board of directors at the Sontag Foundation, Sontag is the president of The Spring Bay Companies, an investment group he helped found. The Sontag Foundation also is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
part time. ”I have now been to 10 countries in Africa in three years, and often times feel more comfortable here than I do in my other home, the USA.” With the acquisition of two universities (Cavendish in Uganda and Zambia) and a significant View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken