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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

transactions. The course will also explore legal issues involved in starting, joining or investing in start-ups and decision making from the time an entrepreneur conceives, starts to build and obtains financing through development of exit... View Details

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2 Bonus Content (Part 2): Unreleased Insights on Leadership & Strategy 10 FEB 2025 | The Parlor Room In this special episode, host Chris Linnane shares exclusive, never-before-heard clips from his conversations on leadership, strategy,... View Details

20 Oct 2021
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Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

strategies to contract with, invest in, and advocate for Black and Brown-owned companies and the partners that support them; and publicly establish targets and report results so we can ensure progress. After... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

short-term results with adherence to a long-term strategy and direction. At Cummins, we are driven by the concept of maximizing shareholder value -- but the question is, value over the next quarter or two, or over a longer period? Either... View Details

August 2009 (Revised June 2015)
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MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron

Several top surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) are receiving financial and administrative support to advance their surgical device inventions through the earliest stages of commercialization. View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Hospital; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Commercialization; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; New York (state, US)

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Empemex

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Regina Garcia-Cuellar

Studies an entrepreneurial venture in Mexico City. The protagonists, two MBAs from HBS, started a pawn shop chain funded from their private equity office after finishing business school. This is timed at a point where the protagonists have to decide how to grow the... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Mexico City; United States

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09 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads

Internet, Amazon invested heavily in its Super Bowl spot. It not only spent $5 million to acquire the 30-second slot but also paid for the participation of high-priced talent like chef Gordon Ramsey, actor Anthony Hopkins, and other... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Telecommunications

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

now or wait a bit. Selection It’s not possible or even a defensible investment strategy to try to reinforce every asset everywhere, and forever. High value assets in high risk areas clearly merit View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives, advising on transactions valued at... View Details

01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

no. 6 (November - December 2007): 31-37 Abstract Fundamental indexers argue that capitalization weighting is an inferior investment strategy because it necessarily invests more... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1998
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Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships, funded by a $2 million gift... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path-related outcomes. It then focuses on creating a new set of data that can start shedding light on the empirical relevance of this... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

programs can still be successful without the traditional partnership structure." But XTV's example, they continue, also suggests "some of the difficulties that these efforts encounter and the apparent importance of having a strong linkage between the fund's... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

01 Dec 2017
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Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Brian Franklin (MBA 2018) admits the prospect of partnering with Colgate-Palmolive to identify a strategy for marketing... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

million valuation, he might have missed his investment in auxmoney, an online marketplace for peer-to-peer loans. 3 Get comfortable on planes Rimer still lives in Geneva but is in London a few days a week. He is in Berlin regularly and in... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

30 May 2018
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Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

other party ” Questions of national economic interest, he continued, “should take a back seat to questions of individual interest when considering this issue.” Rick Mueller countered this argument. “IP developed in this country is largely a result of public View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

07 Aug 2019
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“The Star of the North”

The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

Working PapersSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Abstract Global economic transactions such as foreign direct View Details