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Pato Bichara Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results SEI25 Series: Pato Bichara (MBA 2015), CEO, Collective Academy Pato Bichara 20 Jun 2019 This post is part of our... View Details

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Misan Rewane Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane (MBA 2013), CEO, WAVE Misan Rewane 14 Mar 2019 This post is part of our Social Enterprise... View Details

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Lynn Schenk Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results HBS Business & Environment Alumni Conference Lynn Schenk 06 Apr 2020 On March 4, 2020, the HBS Business and... View Details

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Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

Initiative's Twitter HBS Open Knowledge - This open forum by the HBS Digital Initiative aims to build community and expertise around digital transformation and technology at HBS and beyond. It gathers and shares perspectives from... View Details

December 2004 (Revised July 2006)
Case

Celtel International B.V.

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon

Mo Ibrahim, chairman of Celtel International, the largest provider of cellular services in sub-Saharan Africa, must decide on his company's future. After an amazing six years that took it from minority positions in three countries to nearly $1 billion in revenues and... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Initial Public Offering; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Africa

February 2008
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Cincom Systems, Inc.

By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen

Tom Nies, charismatic CEO of Cincom Systems, is considering a public offering of his software enterprise, but the 1987 stock market crash checks his plans. Nies reflects that capital for expansion will keep Cincom at the frontier of technological development in a... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Capital; Initial Public Offering; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology Industry

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Georges F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies

Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education Faculty & Research Initiatives & Projects MBA Resources Baker Library |... View Details

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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gender and Work: Challenging Conventional Wisdom Gender and Work: Challenging Conventional Wisdom 28 FEB–01 MAR 2013 Home Videos Agenda Location: Harvard Business School Organizer: The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative Welcome to the... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

“A National System of Income Supplementation”

and economic inequality http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/. The so-called Kerner Report, warning that the United States was in danger of becoming two “separate but unequal” societies, recommended federal initiatives to boost education,... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

March 2006
Teaching Note

Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Erin Seefeld

Teaching Note to (806-044). View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Initial Public Offering; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

the empirical quest to link a firm's social investments to its financial returns has preoccupied researchers. Our goal in this paper is to reorient debate and research about social initiatives by business. We try to stimulate a fresh... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

24 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Internship In Action

It’s crazy how time flies, so much has happened since my last post and I am less than two weeks away from the end of my internship at Global Fashion Group(GHG)! The past few weeks have been very busy at work and in general. My project scope View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Sep 2014
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Making a Statement

doctors were quite competent, but the group wasn’t working together. “We brought in a comprehensive, integrated system, with a better flow of information, and patient outcomes improved dramatically,” says Paul. The company that grew out of this View Details

August 2008
Teaching Note

The Blackstone Group's IPO (TN)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for [808100]. View Details

Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Public Ownership; Initial Public Offering; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Structure; Financial Services Industry; China

April 2010
Teaching Note

BYD Company, Ltd. (TN)

By: Robert S. Huckman

Teaching Note for [606139]. View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Competitive Advantage; Labor; Competition; Problems and Challenges; Cost vs Benefits; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; China

May 2004 (Revised May 2006)
Case

AsiaInfo: The IPO Decision

The cofounder and CEO of AsiaInfo, a Chinese system integrator that built 70% of China's Internet backbone, must decide whether to list equity in the United States to fund future growth. Describes the company and the decision. A rewritten version of a previous case. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Initial Public Offering; Growth Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Equity; Information Technology Industry; China; United States

January 2006 (Revised May 2007)
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Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...?

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Brian DeLacey

Endo Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1997 as a leveraged buyout spin-off from DuPont Merck. In 1999, it must decide whether to do an IPO or merge with a smaller company. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States