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- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, and other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of entry barriers against large stores. Instead of simply reducing the number of new large stores entering a market, the entry barriers created the incentive for large retail chains to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding talent.” Dan Morrell: In the wake of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, Willie Woods (MBA 1993) was... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
capital in Latin America. Chu still runs Pegasus but also joined HBS in 2003. His courses include "Effective Leadership of Social Enterprise" and "New Opportunities in Emerging Markets," the latter about managing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
that ask in writing. Identify at least one domain area where each investor may serve you best (e.g., I am usually the go-to person for product & engineering or organizational planning for my angel View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
of New York, especially during the Gilded Age. —Karen Tumulty (MBA 1981) is deputy editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post. Before joining the Post in 2010, she wrote for Time and the Los Angeles Times. She is the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Angel Investor with an Agenda Authors:Regina E. Herzlinger and Beatriz Muñoz-Seca Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED standard and investments in green building expertise by local suppliers. These findings suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
Blakeman says. A pitch to the right person at the right time at a bar led to a $100,000 angel investment. Diversifying his business, Blakeman started to work with prisons to put his search tools into the hands of inmates before their... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Washington Area Community Investment Fund and founder of socially conscious sustainable underwear brand Manakii. More than 50 HBS alumni tuned in to the 90-minute virtual discussion, during which the panelists touched upon a number of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Career Coach
Wendi Zhang
Wendi partners with MBA students and alumni to meet them where they are in their career journey, and 1) if undecided - helps them get clarity, 2) if decided - coaches them in taking the next steps to reach the next goal post(s), and 3) upon reaching the next goal -... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
discussing work when we connect outside of the office”. This may seem like a lot to manage, but the time investment should result in team members better adjusting to the growing separation between them and the founders and having less... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
do their job for free. No tycoon, no matter how loaded, civic-minded, and/or self-medicated, will bankroll meaningful newsgathering — and all its bureaus, labor relations, and, yes, office supplies — just for giggles. And without View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
constellations to ground station networks of satellite dishes, to new thrusters on satellites to asteroid mining,” he says. Joe Landon sees it, too. In addition to his work at Planetary Resources, Landon is chair of the Space Angels... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
prevents executives from investing in management capabilities, arguing that such investments are a powerful way to become more competitive. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional explanation regarding the low real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Jill Huggett
Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details
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