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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in real estate. With Bill Poorvu, a... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
This case explores the opportunity to purchase the condominium management business of a distressed real estate developer by Advantage Partners, a leading Japanese private equity firm. The case explores investment structuring, bidding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
announced the split, the price rose nearly tenfold. With the stock split came an increase in publicity, which helped maintain capital inflows from individual investors. The media has drawn a lot of attention to Horie's boyish antics—he is... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence at venture View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
markets faster through the existing distribution network of the acquirer, or through the ability to invest quickly in significantly expanded facilities. Compared to an IPO, it allows the careful delineation of accountability and... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
the trial? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-089 Investing in Volatility at Evanston Capital Management No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8
alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
teachers and staff and are consistently challenged to fill vacancies. This project focused specifically on working with the Human Capital Staffing team and analyzing their hiring process to identify pain points that are preventing them... View Details
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
intellectual capital was drained" —Reynold Levy Levy, who was a senior lecturer at HBS before he took the Lincoln Center job, has stayed committed to the institution's funding base—the fiercely dedicated baby boomers who have... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
of a U.S. retail chain) to centralized hiring (in this study, by the head office). While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect the unit managers’... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this framework to study the horizon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)
effective of an internal and external strategy without HBS. Adam Friedman (MBA 2020) is a Vice President at Linden Capital Partners If you were to describe your HBS experience in 3 words what would they be? Learning new perspectives. Was... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
key indicators of entrepreneurship and innovation. Boston is second only to Silicon Valley in terms of venture capital invested per capita. Boston-area research universities spend $2.6 billion annually on... View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
to, or invest in such organizations (e.g., payers, biopharmaceutical and device companies, health information technology, venture capital and private equity). Educational Objectives This course will help... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
early-stage challenges with an eye toward scaling operations after graduation. “The cases in Globalization and Emerging Markets were about business realities I’ve been living every day,” he notes. “Finance was the subject where I had the least experience before coming... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
that are yielding substantial results. Our extensive investment in information technology (IT) has been particularly effective, enhancing our ability to teach, conduct research, and serve our diverse and often far-flung constituencies.... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008
IBM's "Radical Collaboration" model has been an innovative approach to meeting the challenges of the huge R&D and capital investments that are needed to stay competitive in the global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
a company’s population health footprint. Examples, statistics, and visuals showcase emerging corporate involvement in public health and underscore the business opportunities available to companies that invest in health. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
while at the same time, a range of stakeholders can question, claim their share, or put up guardrails around that headlong rush toward change. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems — particularly by business itself — will help keep our system of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons