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- 28 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Making an Impact on the Media Industry with my MBA
Before school, I was involved with other young contemporary art lovers through the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and hoped to find the same connection here at HBS. I was thrilled to find such a community here through the Art... View Details
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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Education to Help Meet the Needs of Learners Everywhere: SE Summer Fellow Angel Njenga (MBA 2022) Angel Njenga 05 Aug 2021 INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
where venture capitalists, angel investors, and other funders of early stage businesses can and must step up to make a difference. Higher Purpose Venture Capital dives into 50 business ventures that serve the “double bottom line” of... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Endowment Shani Carter, Los Angeles Unified School District, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellowship Fund Sara Jetty, Whitney Museum Of American Art, Margaret T. Morris Foundation Endowment Justin Kim, Social Finance, James A.... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
as collateral, and then ages the cheese in climate-controlled bank vaults. Photo credit: Emer Moloney The more it ages, the more delicious and valuable it becomes—like cash in an interest-bearing account. Eighteen-month cheese gives pasta zing. Thirty-six-month cheese... View Details
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Distinguished Global Thinker by IILM, New Delhi, India, 2016. Andy Wu : “Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners” was selected in 2016 for publication in the Academy of Management Best... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
and Successful Enterprises, Negotiations, and an immersive class that allows me to travel to Los Angeles and work with a media company. I’m also working with one of my favorite professors on an independent project that allows me to test... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
keeping information private can directly harm consumers. After Los Angeles required mandatory hygiene information at restaurants, for example, hygiene rates rose and foodborne illnesses dropped. "Just by disclosing the information,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
imported goods shipped and delivered in a timely fashion. What is happening? Willy Shih: The biggest importers in the US—Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target—they’re all suffering from congestion in Los Angeles and Long Beach, in the Port... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
Angeles for the premier Hollywood Trek, where they joined a total of 45 HBSers interested in the entertainment industry and the Internet. Meanwhile, in London, more than 90 students from the School were experiencing a full agenda of... View Details
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
four-year-old under his guru Bishnu Ghosh. He arrived in America in 1971, opening his first studio in Los Angeles and teaching traditional Hatha yoga to students including Shirley MacLaine. Bikram built his business slowly. In 1979, he... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
difference do angel investors make for the success and growth of new ventures? William R. Kerr and Josh Lerner of HBS and Antoinette Schoar of MIT provide fresh evidence to address this crucial question in entrepreneurial finance,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
to as “the big O” or sometimes “the big owe”) until 2006. A sense of Olympic legacy, however, has an obvious positive effect. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games, has seen continued use as an athletic... View Details
- February 2024
- Case
FIGS: Scrubbing the Status Quo
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Nicole Tempest Keller
In October 2023, FIGS had revolutionized the medical scrubs industry with its fashionable and functional designs, but the venture was at a critical juncture. The digitally native vertical brand (DNVB) had gone public in a successful IPO in 2021 and reached $500 million... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Channels; Corporate Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles; Europe; Canada
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Nicole Tempest Keller. "FIGS: Scrubbing the Status Quo." Harvard Business School Case 824-062, February 2024.
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
that more and more cities may zone or franchise waste collection, restricting the number of operators (and emissions) while improving safety in designated areas—as Los Angeles has done, with New York soon to follow. Every landfill is at a... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
angel investor in fashion tech; Vanessa Kay, senior vice president at Moët Hennessy USA, who heads up the Veuve Clicquot, Krug, and Ruinart champagne brands; Edda Gudmundsdottir, a fashion designer and style consultant whose clients... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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HBS - The year in Review
Boston Planning and Development Agency Soltan Bryce, Boston Medical Center Health System Sara Jetty, Whitney Museum of American Art Justin Kim, Social Finance Yogi Kurniawan, City of San Jose Mayor's Office Jake Mayo, City of Boston Mayor's Office Shani McKinney, Los... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
government-backed fund that saw one of the country’s first exits in 2011—an ISP called Link.net. That was one of an accumulation of tipping points, notes Ismail. “In 2012, 2013, we started getting the first attempts at incubators, accelerators, View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
college roommates who worked in South Central Los Angeles as a community organizer. He was bemoaning the lack of financial services to people who lived there. As a result, I became very interested in what we might call "consumer" or... View Details