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01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

Michigan. “My faith is part of what drives me to serve others,” he says. On a mission to bring safe water to Cambodia, Goodwin realized such basic services needed savvier marketing and better business strategy. While Cambodians happily... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

March 2024
Case

Biomanufacturing Decentralization by Stämm

By: Paul A. Gompers, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, cousins Llamazares and D’Alvia founded Stämm, a startup based on the idea of decentralizing biomanufacturing processes and downsizing biotech facilities. After raising its seed and series A rounds, and while finalizing its series B round in... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Selection and Staffing; Technological Innovation; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires

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Evgeny Koudryavtsev

"Thanks to my great mentors, early on I got a lot of responsibility and worked on a few landmark transactions," he says, "including the world's fifth-largest IPO." Seeking more buy-side experience, Evgeny was one of the few people hired for the... View Details

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

project. So d'Arbeloff established a separate unit to develop the new technology. However, even with the autonomy given to the management team, the technology was initially framed as a low-cost version of the traditional product, one that would be View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2006
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Jay Light Named New HBS Dean

a degree in engineering physics, Light earned a DBA from Harvard’s joint program in decision and control theory in 1970. Light’s research and teaching have focused on capital markets and institutional asset... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

12 Jan 2017
News

Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

group partner,” she says. “Moving from consumer products to venture capital was a pretty hard pivot. I was 30 years old and pursuing a not-so-easy industry to break into,” she admits. “However, HBS gave me an incredible opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

capital through their network. Results would also help IC members discuss the larger question about the relationship of financial returns and social returns. In short, should capital providers expect some... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

from firms such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Marathon Capital, and FullCycle discussed the need for patient capital to be aligned on the longer timelines it may take for alternative energy investments to fully develop a return. As one... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech

01 Oct 1998
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Putting on the Wheels

capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes believes, is an example of how GM... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock... View Details

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

details how Emirates' chooses new routes, technology, and equipment and manages its human resources, marketing and branding, and government relationships-together forming an internally consistent strategy that View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

otherwise take a decade to diagnose. But NextGen Jane is building more diseases into the pipelines. “There are so many understudied areas in women’s health we could explore,” Tariyal says. Illustration by Marcos Chin The Question: “The first test I bring to View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2016
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Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street

and capital only serve to stifle economic growth and opportunity, Nohria wrote. He also took note of critics who point to instances of global financial misdeeds, mistakes, or crises over the past decade and attack Wall Street for its... View Details

Keywords: Wall Street; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

actually alter company behavior, or create social value? How is and how should social value be defined and measured? In public markets, we evaluate the costs and benefits of negative screens, ESG integration, and activist investing. Private View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

advantage of the opportunity. On the question of institutional support for entrepreneurship within different countries, Kuemmerle pointed to several dimensions. "The good news is that there is increasing capital View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

(CRM) project would require, the bank decided to explore its benefits with a smaller pilot project. It appointed a CRM project team to design and implement a project focused on credit cards. Describes the challenges of the Spanish credit card View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

standards are. The authors include a useful assessment tool to help readers get started. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/01/are-you-a-good-boss-or-a-great-one/ar/1# The Emerging Capital Market for... View Details