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13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan between 2006 and 2010, we find no evidence that total 401(k)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

Caufield & Byers have invested over $200 million in green technologies; Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) serves as president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy; and Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

07 Apr 2021
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Road Work

Friedman. He’d had a successful career in investment banking and venture capital, which included being the founder and former president of the investment banking operation of... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

Self-published The Speculator’s Mosaic is a speculative investment book that details the hard-earned wisdom accumulated during five decades of speculation and portfolio management. Culled from a lifetime of successes—and failures—the book... View Details

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Reimagining the Balanced Scorecard for the ESG Era

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan

Companies are increasingly aware that their customers and society in general expect businesses to adopt and work towards social and environmental objectives as well as the traditional financial ones. This involves not only re-evaluating firms’ models but re-imagining... View Details

Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Business Ecosystems; Balanced Scorecard; Adaptation; Business Model; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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17 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

unfolding of consumer driven automotive online retailing at Chrysler and in the 2000s, I followed the allure of the wild, wild, web at Google. Today, I sit at the precipice of AI (artificial intelligence) with my role at Gradient Ventures, Google’s View Details

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

Soldiers Field with a common bond to the School and to each other. To mark their collective achievement, here’s a look at six who represent the diversity and the varied ambitions of the Class of 2006. Sacasha Brown Immigrants’ daughter, View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

makers or B2B service businesses, which is a growing segment. “Decisions we make over the next several years will influence large parts of our financial services systems.” Only a relatively tiny number of US small businesses are the high-growth ones funded by View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence at View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211083-PDF-ENG Pitch Your Project! Thomas SteenburghHarvard Business School Exercise 511-116 No matter what you do later in your career, you are going to have to learn how to pitch ideas. Perhaps you will want to convince a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

accusations of price gouging and calls for generic alternatives. The few big companies still investing in vaccines saw their fortunes take an upward turn in the mid-2010s, as countries with growing economies, like China, expanded... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

partner of Gobi Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in China, must decide how to manage his firm's largest investment after the departure of the CEO. Tom has temporarily stepped in as CEO, but... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

from other religious groups. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45023 Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners? By: Ewens, Michael, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper investigates whether individual View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

Goldman Sachs: Making an Imprint in Impact Investing Goldman Sachs acquired Imprint Capital Advisors, a small firm that specialized in advising clients on environmental/social/governance (ESG) and impact investments. The founders sold... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

classmates at Harvard Business School, and became fast friends over their passion for the gig economy and the future of work. They both spent their summer before HBS working with fintech-focused venture capital funds in India and the US,... View Details

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When Generations Learn Together

What happens when a father and son team up to attend executive education programs together? Bracken Seaberg (BS) and Jim Seaberg (JS) discuss their shared experiences in Private Equity and Venture Capital and Changing the Game:... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

23 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World

professional background in health tech. He mentioned that the venture capital firm, General Catalyst, he worked for before school had just invested in a trans telehealth company. My jaw must have dropped on... View Details

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