Business Enterprises - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered Are global brands effective? How should I think about strategy in a flat... View Details

November 2005 (Revised January 2006)
Case

Commercialization at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (A)

A large and successful not-for-profit medical research institute must decide strategy to commercialize its discoveries. In the process, it must balance multiple conflicting demands from its stakeholders. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Public Sector; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Health Industry

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Find at Harvard

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Entrepreneurial Acquisitions: The Roadmap for Buying a Business and Leading It to the Next Level By Jan Simon (AMP 199) TellWell Talent In the mid-1980s, a group of enterprising and industrious MBA students... View Details

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

we first launched InMobi, it became the first company in the product space to essentially kind of, you know, go from east into the west. There’ve been numerous companies in the enterprise product space which are now growing from the east... View Details

Profile

Ralph Johnson

impetus for going to business school. What are some of the most important aspects of your HBS experience? My internship, definitely, because it enabled me to pursue two other passions: politics and education. Through the Mayor’s Office... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of it.” In describing that sense of accomplishment, Ruhr could well be speaking about the early years of her own career, which was born in Professor Ray A. Goldberg’s agriculture and View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

Although plenty has changed for venture capitalists with the slowing of the economy and market upheavals, there are still plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs and those who fund them, said panelists at the 2001 Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1997
News

Terence P. Stewart

materialize," says Stewart. "As a trade lawyer, I see missed opportunities for American firms caused by the West's failure to set up lines of credit to deserving enterprises and by the unimaginative approach to doing View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Web

Alumni Forums - Alumni

encourage members to discuss what is most important to them in an open and safe environment. It is natural for HBS alumni forum members to discuss business and career issues, but just as common to discuss personal issues, which are often... View Details

April 2009
Teaching Note

SKS Microfinance (TN)

By: Shawn A. Cole

Teaching Note for [208137]. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Financing and Loans; Valuation; Social Enterprise; Equity; Financial Markets; Microfinance; For-Profit Firms; Financial Services Industry; India

Citation

Purchase

07 Jul 2015
Blog Post

From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again

that HBS was a residential school. I spoke to students at business schools in NYC and they griped about not having the opportunity to get to know their classmates well because everyone seemed to have other competing social networks. One... View Details

Profile

Lara Hodgson

businesses because partnerships between large and small companies don’t always go so well. You get eaten. We struggle with this constantly. We don’t want to pass up great opportunities. So how do you go into working relationships with... View Details

09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Originally, Offensend thought he’d propel himself into that nonprofit career through law school. But then, he jokes, he realized what lawyers actually do on a day-to-day basis, and so instead went to View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2002
News

Think Globally, Teach Locally

(IMD) in Switzerland, among others. According to HBS professor Tarun Khanna, the support provided in establishing these schools (most of which were founded in the 1960s) can be seen as just one stage in the School's ongoing commitment to international research and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1996
News

New Releases

Promises by D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen (HBS Press) What happened to IBM? That is the question posed by authors Quinn Mills, the School's Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, and Bruce Friesen (MBA... View Details

Profile

Anthony Tan

To most aspiring business leaders, Anthony Tan had enviable career prospects. The scion of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest families, Tan is the son of the CEO of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd, one of Malaysia’s biggest automobile... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

that yes, we disagree, but we have bought into the common enterprise of trying to build a free and prosperous society. Has business been supportive of government and the democratic system in the United... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as... View Details

Keywords: Dean

Profile

Jonathan Evans

models every day. After HBS, I am joining a leadership rotational program at Box, a cloud management platform for enterprise that's redefining how businesses manage content. My passion for technology-driven... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entertainment / Media

01 Dec 2015
News

Estonia, Incorporated

Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey In June, Aman Kumar (MBA 2014) was appointed the first-ever special advisor to the CIO of the Republic of Estonia. Kumar has a day job, too, working in the New York office of enterprise software giant... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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