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13 Feb 2020
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Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

energy around aerospace as government has opened up the sector to privatization. Students passionate about space often bring a unique combination of technical and managerial skills and are finding opportunities to add value to View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

29 Sep 2014
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Don’t leave this out of your job posting…

internship job postings: What makes your organization unique? In addition to your organization’s industry and mission, the company description section is a great opportunity to highlight what distinguishes your View Details

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How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America

City, the HBS Latin America Research Center (LARC) has enabled the School to expand the volume of in-depth research and course materials that focus on Latin American companies and has helped to strengthen the School’s relationships with... View Details

09 Apr 2021
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Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

technologies and business models that his and other companies are exploring to prepare for the energy transition and mitigate climate change. One session featuring Susan Morrice, CEO, Co-Founder, and Chairperson of Belize Natural Energy,... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

Eden of 75-degree temperatures, where you can breakfast on fresh guavas and relax into a way of life that values family and friendship over keeping up with the Joneses. Such was the path chosen by Richard Evanson (MBA '62), owner and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

23 Jul 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

professor and Balanced Scorecard guru Robert S. Kaplan introduces BSC Customer Profitability Metrics. From Balanced Scorecard Report. Key concepts include: In their zeal to delight customers, some companies actually lose money with them... View Details

Profile

Mina Kazanlieva

situations. "We were value investors and were active throughout the economic cycle." Leadership made personal For Mina, getting an MBA was driven by both professional and personal motivations. "When you evaluate... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung

open-minded about what I could do," says Fung. "He was a visionary." So William took on the challenge and went to work. Six months later, he presented a plan to professionalize Li & Fung's management by severing ties between the management and the family and taking the... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The Effect of Institutional Factors on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

not have to travel far to make deals, change jobs, or find professional partners. John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins is fond of saying that the Valley is a place where you can change your job without changing your parking spot. Shared values... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

01 Jun 2010
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Alumni Books

how companies use innovative business models to achieve transformational growth by fulfilling customer needs in current markets; serving new customers and creating new markets; and responding to shifts in market demand, government policy,... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAvid Radiopharmaceuticals: The Venture Debt Question Harvard Business School Case 809-086 The CEO of a promising biotech company must decide how... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 May 2015
News

The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

comes from working with smart, hard-working, intellectually curious people. Choose projects, teams, and companies where you feel mentally challenged; your brain should feel tired at the end of the day. The subject matter of what you’re... View Details

Keywords: Google; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

security services to companies in South Africa, other African countries, and parts of Europe. In the case, Gray has recently undergone a financial restructuring with the help of private equity firm Brait Capital Partners. Now its owners... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2015
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Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

creditors at the back of the line, meanwhile, lose out on the value that could have been produced had the company kept operating. A new working paper coauthored by Professor Stuart Gilson challenges that... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

rededicating themselves to improving the value they deliver to their patients: better outcomes and lower costs. Time-driven activity-based costing offers the potential for clinicians to redesign their care processes toward that end. This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2006
News

Managing Family Assets

generations to come and shares his personal history as an heir to the Carnation fortune. The message of his great-grandfather, E.A. Stuart, the founder of the Carnation Company in 1899, still holds true today, says Lucas: Be useful. How... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Management

Profile

Angela R. Hicks Bowman

quickly and easily as possible so they can get on with their lives,” Hicks said. In 1999, Angieslist.com went live, a move that catapulted the company to new heights and Hicks decided it was time to earn an MBA in order to better... View Details

16 Mar 2023
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HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

Production immersive field course, we met with the HySynergy-Crossbridge Energy partnership that was created to produce liquid e-fuels in Fredericia, Denmark. Many of the companies we visited in Denmark and the Netherlands emphasized... View Details

25 Jun 2014
News

An International Perspective

School “opened my eyes to a whole new spectrum of opportunities” in the field of financing and building entrepreneurial energy services companies. His most recent focus as managing director at Houston-based SCF Partners is the development of portfolio View Details

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