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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
consider to be a classic innovation community. The same way we think of Silicon Valley now, or maybe Detroit in the 1920s with the automobile industry. Okay, there's all these musicians, there's all this music. It's in the air. New Orleans is considered the opera View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Urban Waste Entrepreneurs John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 211-086 Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
not as giving back but as ‘giving in turn.’ Volunteering keeps me balanced and rooted in the real world.” Of her immediate future, Brown says, “I am interested in providing capital and resources to entrepreneurs to build compelling... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
started with the company's employees a few years earlier, was an effort to educate and inform customers on how to lead a healthier lifestyle. What CEO Craig Boyan had in mind was creating a state-wide healthy living movement in Texas, where obesity was high relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
availability risk during economic downturns During economic downturns or periods of high unemployment, capital may be scarce. Support structures typically needed to grow a business—like financing and mentorship—might not be as readily... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
for market share. Faced with this daunting business environment, T-Mobile's new CEO declared war on the rest of the industry, decrying competitor pricing practices and upending the traditional contract-based business model. This case provides background information on... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
topsoil are free or cheap. A few years ago, a manager at a large IT company said something to me that I've never forgotten."For many years we've optimized our business as if capital and labor are what is expensive and we've gotten... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
University of Massachusetts Boston. She studies how the ideology of meritocracy is invoked to legitimate inequality in the United States and thereby impedes efforts to address poverty. She also examines how “tempered radicals,” working... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
or competitive strategic analysis could measure. I learned that, as with so many things in Africa, the context was everything. It is hard to put a number on the “value” of reconciliation, but it is here where measures like social return on View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
of the action. When participants do not "see" or feel responsible for the whole, a dynamic ecosystem can easily evolve into a state of dangerous instability, as in the financial crisis of 2008-09, or even collapse, as in the Internet bust... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
earning his MBA, Doerr joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980. KPCB’s focus on technology and life sciences, while dramatically changing the landscape of both fields, has also contributed to creation of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
at funding infrastructure. The government has to be as they did with IRA providing incentives for capital to come in, to work on some of these projects and the banking and asset management and insurance industries have to be there, ready... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
and potential often fail for one simple reason―the enormous challenge for investor relations and fundraising professionals to raise the necessary capital to make the fund profitable. Marketing Alternative Investments builds on the... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
low and moderate income non-savers—and discusses the laws and regulations in the United States that largely prohibit their issuance. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16433 Cases & Course MaterialsHang Lung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Hot Chicken Takeover
By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull
By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the... View Details
Keywords: Fair Chance Employment; Fair Chance Hiring; Open Hiring; Inclusive Hiring; Criminal Record; Homelessness; Therapeutic Employment; Corporate Culture; Managing The Future Of Work; Food; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Employees; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation Strategy; Job Offer; Job Interviews; Human Capital; Leadership; Growth Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Welfare; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio; United States
Kerr, William R., Manjari Raman, and Olivia Hull. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 819-078, February 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
depend on. "How do you go from a state of corruption to an orderly market?" says David E. Bell, successor to Ray Goldberg as the Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business. "I think it has to start with you and me trusting each other.... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
financing, new lenders are given priority in the capital structure. This is a critical incentive because it spurs banks and other creditors to lend to companies in Chapter 11 by giving them senior status, effectively letting them stand in... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
trust. Why is One Report important now? "The capital markets and our planet have simultaneously reached a fork in the road. One path continues the status quo. The other and new path is a commitment to a better society, stronger financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or national government can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne