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Work With Us - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

individuals and organizations that have a goal of improving health care using a value-based approach. We would welcome your ideas for research. We are always looking for qualified people to work on our team at HBS. Research The value-based health care team at Harvard... View Details

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

Associates How and why investors structure deals How PE firms add value How investors screen and choose investments Getting a deal through the Investment Committee Role of debt providers and where incentives overlap and diverge Different PE View Details

29 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 29

economic pacts and clash of regional economic blocks, post-imperial disintegration and trade, and identity and interdependence. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/ukraine-on-the-border-of-europe-and-eurasia/an/714042-PDF-ENG Harvard View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
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Faculty Books

How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind (Harvard Business Review Press) How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again?... View Details

Keywords: Professor Amy C. Edmonson; Professor Boris Groysberg; Professor Josh Lerner; Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon; Professor Leslie A. Perlow; Professor of Management Practice Felda Hardymon;; social media; Finance

14 Nov 2012
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Remembering His Roots

Through our Entrepreneurs program, we’ve also helped five individuals launch their own small businesses, advised them on their business plans, and helped them land their first clients.” By day, Curiel serves... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

06 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club

alumni panels Access to the Search Fund Investor platform and the Club's library of resources (including access to leading data platforms) Summer internship opportunities with current searchers and small View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Maya Babu

Government policy changed the way Maya Babu thinks about health care. For a summer internship, she worked in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of Health and Human Services. "It was run very much like a View Details

01 Mar 2009
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More Alumni Books

Merlin's Dragon by T.A. Barron (MBA ’80) (Philomel) Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell (MBA ’07) (Random House) Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School by... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

being used to automate simple business processes—transmitting an order, acknowledging a shipment, describing an item for sale, etc. Over time the processes enabled via Web services will become more complex, but it's best to start View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

28 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching

hosting people over for small gatherings, and baking and decorating cakes. Elisabeth Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard... View Details

19 Aug 2013
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Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Mar 2012
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Great Expectations

launch of the yearlong course last fall we’ve witnessed the enormous power that comes from students working in small groups. One of the most affirming things we’ve seen is how FIELD has enhanced the entire curriculum. Students are... View Details

Keywords: Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

today: the companies themselves. During that period, investor protection laws in Brazil were relatively weak—yet investors bought equity on a "massive scale," according to Harvard Business School professor Aldo Musacchio,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

small monthly fee of about $6 for access to primary health care and specialists for urban individuals and families with annual incomes of less than $3,500. This is just the sort of BoP business solution that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Kenny Salas

not a good fit for me. It takes too much time to get approvals and execute your plans—to see the fruits of your labor." The second factor came from a place closer to home—literally. Kenny's twin brother, Sean, who is also attending HBS, approached Kenny with a... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

08 May 2019
Blog Post

Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

a variety of dynamic, in-demand work engagements). But many times, the greatest ideas arise out of opportunity. And often, the best businesses are created to address a market gap. In this case, it was both. Cheney had spent six years post... View Details

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

number of US organizations with over a hundred employees is well over a hundred thousand. In the year 1900, the number of firms that did business around the world, on all continents, was very close to zero. Today the number is so large it... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

January 2024
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Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)

By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney

In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details

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02 Dec 2010
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Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs

Less than 20 percent of new businesses last five years. Despite those daunting odds, three MBAs from the Class of 1998 are among the elite who succeeded, and their stories make compelling reading in a new book. Former Washington Post... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

passing over it of the loyalty to country and alma mater and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood developed by study and play on the banks of this river to the nation and its needs. In that spirit, Fieldhouse, the director for Emerging View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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