Angels - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

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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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

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

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Sports

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

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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

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Nanda : Awarded Bharat Asmita Acharya Shreshta for Teaching by Maharashtra Institute of Technology University, Pune, India, 2016. Ashish Nanda : Named 10th Distinguished Global Thinker by IILM, New Delhi, India, 2016. Andy Wu : “Organizational Decision-Making and... 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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

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

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

dramatic surge of activity? How will it affect the nature of entrepreneurship and society more generally in the years to come? What should venture and angel investors anticipate in the future? Slides Data-Driven Leadership Associate... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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

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

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

of selling aids (folders, display cards, primers, demonstration lamps) and to run newspaper ads and test campaigns. Inviting advertisements touted the benefits of the "variable density" polarizing windows on the "Copper King" railcar of the Union Pacific streamliner... View Details

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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

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Harvard Business School

College of Business at San Francisco State University, Linda Oubre brings more than two decades of corporate, entrepreneurial, and teaching experience to the role. She co-founded and was president of BriteSmile, was president of Tri Com Ventures, oversaw business... View Details

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