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01 Dec 2011
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Inside MTV’s Global Fame

numbering in the billions and making MTV one of the most powerful global brands. In his fascinating account, What Makes Business Rock: Building the World’s Largest Global Networks (Wiley), Roedy relives deal-making in 175 countries, from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &... View Details

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

The key to managing innovation starts, and probably ends, with incentives. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations, Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner puts it this way:... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

MBA '69), cofounder and chairman of Apax Partners & Co. Ltd., and vice chairman of EASDAQ—the pan-European stock market for growth companies which he helped establish in 1996; Gerard Montanus, a general partner in Atlas Venture, a global concern that first opened... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

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Africa - Global Activities 2021

also learned that there are going to be people with very different life experiences and viewpoints from me and that it’s important to connect across these divides,” Raji notes. She adds that she will continue to serve this year as CFO of the HBS Africa View Details

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

practices of Canadian non-medical businesses. The best practices discussion was based on Cleveland Clinic Canada’s experience serving numerous Canadian enterprises through its Medical Director Program. “The webinar really gave us a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Aug 2001
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Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)

the organization as it has forged educational partnerships with numerous businesses and become the country's leading nonprofit resource for breast cancer information and education. NABCO is now a powerful force in patient advocacy,... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2005
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Better than Cash

Somerville, Massachusetts, needed advice on how to make the nonprofit more cost-effective, he might have considered attending business school. But he didn’t have to. Harvard Business School came to him in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; CAP; HBS; nonprofits; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

June 2011 (Revised April 2014)
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sweetriot 2.0

By: Christopher Marquis, Donna Khalife and Bobbi Thomason

In the fall of 2010, Sarah Endline, CEO and Founder of sweetriot, an organic chocolate company, was deciding the best way to grow her organic chocolate company, while keeping her chocolate physically and conceptually on the shelf. She wanted to grow the offerings and... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Profit; Business Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Experience and Expertise; Economic Growth; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (state, US)

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05 Aug 2010
What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

products arise from strong insight, gut feel and imagination. Bad ideas, lousy products or services can be avoided by serious market research." Andy Robin pointed out that in the semiconductor business "one still had to spend a lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

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

26 Jan 2015
News

The Ingredients for Success

says what she learned at HBS comes into play every day in New Orleans. “At HBS, I developed critical thinking skills that allow me to think, do, and learn—all at the same time,” she says. Markowitz’s current venture is a far cry from her start in the View Details

Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Educational Services

22 Nov 2011
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A Storybook Beginning

Valley. At the same time, Worldreader is busy raising money and working with publishers to expand the list of titles that can be downloaded via Africa’s cell phone network. As the organization scales up, Risher says he is relying heavily... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

April 2009
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Brummer and the bracNet Investment

By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Michael Pirson and Patricia Mangas

bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested in a first round of funding to connect major cities. Should he invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Investment; Investment Return; Rural Scope; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Internet; Telecommunications Industry; Bangladesh

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Tim Nicolette

Inspire, a consortium of strategy consulting firms who organized a team of pre-MBA consultants who volunteered five to ten hours a week to educational nonprofits. After a year, Inspire asked me to serve as its executive director. In that role, I saw the tremendous... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit; Nonprofit / Government

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Michael O. Braimah

marketability." After Amal Sale, Michael reached out to an HBS contact he met a few years earlier at the Africa Business Conference, joining him at his private-equity firm, Kaizen Venture Partners. There, Michael was part of a small... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

health care systems to simplify the process of finding doctors and booking appointments for patients. It also provides a sophisticated enterprise management tool that helps health systems track, maintain, and manage provider data. The... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Business School provided him with the managerial know-how and business contacts to begin to turn that dream into a reality. "When I came to Harvard, I was keenly interested in leadership and in what the best... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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

04 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 4

http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science/article/pii/S0305750X1400254X November 2014 Special Issue on Governments as Owners: Globalizing State-Owned Enterprises Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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