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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni
Class Day speaker Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82) Photos by Stuart Cahill Overcast skies, but no stormy washout: That bad news/good news scenario for last June’s Class Day ceremonies seemed to reflect the uncertain... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman. "The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-085, March 2014.
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists
in new HBS cases and videos over the last five years. The targeted effort to boost the number of female executives featured in cases and discussed in classrooms at HBS and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab
Set to open this fall in a newly renovated building on Western Avenue in Allston, the Harvard Innovation Lab is stirring up excitement at HBS and across the University. The “i-lab” will foster collaborative, entrepreneurial activities and... View Details
- September 2008 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
By 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Entrepreneurial Finance; New Product Development; Partnerships; Entrepreneurial Management; Venture Capital; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Environmental Sustainability; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry; Financial Services Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, William A. Sahlman, and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 809-004, September 2008. (Revised July 2012.)
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
Imagine being accepted into the Harvard MBA Program only to realize you can't afford to enroll. This unfortunate scenario is quickly becoming a thing of the past, thanks to an unprecedented new loan program introduced last spring. View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice
If you asked me two months ago whether I learned anything during my first year at Harvard Business School, my response would have been a resounding “Yes!” But, if you followed up by asking me for an example of how I applied the lessons I... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
interested in classical music. And HBS graduates have played a key role in all of this.” Indeed, according to Slavet, field-study and class-project recommendations by HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 5 PM – 10 PM CDT, 31 Mar 2015
- Campaign
A Vision for the 21st Century - HBS in Houston
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Schedule of Events 5:00 p.m. HBS Today 7:00 p.m. A Vision for the 21st Century 8:00 p.m. Celebrate and Connect All alumni in the Houston region will receive an invitation by... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
Clubs News Clubs News Digital health platform Noom awarded Entrepreneurial Company of the Year In a virtual award celebration held on April 6, the HBS Association of Northern... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 2012
- Working Paper
Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence
By: Shon Hiatt and Wesley Sine
Although entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many emerging economies, they often face unstable environments due to the failure of governments to maintain civil and political order. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Balance and Stability; Strategic Planning
Hiatt, Shon, and Wesley Sine. "Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-086, March 2012.
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
The HBS entrepreneurial spirit was evident on May 1, when nearly nine hundred students and guests jammed into Burden Auditorium for the finals of the School's fourth annual Business Plan Contest. The winning entry, Bang Networks, provides... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
Harvard Graduate School Information Session in New York City
This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School and the HBX CORe online program. The event will include an admissions panel followed by a fair to... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
HBS College Programs Information Session at Indiana University - Bloomington
Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers four programs for college students that could be of interest to you including three preview experiences (Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and the Summer Venture in Management... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
investors, activists, and students working together to reduce climate change, feed the world’s population, reduce animal suffering, and develop new fascinating products to make our lives better,” said Bazerman. The Spiritual Lives of... View Details
- 2004
- Working Paper
Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York
By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan
Free banking, which first appeared in the United States in the late 1830s, comprised two essential features: general incorporation for banks and rigorous security requirements for note issue. Because the general incorporation feature is what allowed free entry, it has... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Video: HBS Dean Srikant Datar Introduces the Case Method Centennial
with industrialization, urbanization, and corruption. HBS had been founded only 13 years earlier and didn't have a distinct pedagogy. However, my wise predecessor, Dean Wallace Donham strongly believed that the best way to teach business... View Details
- 2008
- Thesis
Being B-Boys: Style, Identity, and Respect Among New England and Miami Street Dancers
By: Curtis K. Chan
This study examines the phenomenon of a street dance known as "b-boying" to explore how dancers locate, negotiate, and perform identities, as well as the tensions that occur concomitantly. Drawing on data from participant-observation, interviews, and diverse archival... View Details