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Finalists | New Venture Competition
year. Pathways Vasilis Mantzios (MBA 2023) Leise Sandeman Alex Cooper Kritika Kharbanda Pathways is a SaaS tool that enables companies in the building industry to quantify and reduce emissions in their value... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Business Press) With values markedly different from those of earlier generations, Generation Y, born after 1980, makes up almost a third of all Americans living today. Erickson shows Generation Y-ers how to understand and influence their... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
throughout the region. I’m a huge believer in responsible capitalism and hope I can become one of the people who can push this forward. The "Reimagining Capitalism" course convinced me that business leaders have a responsibility to lead their View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
of strategic space configurations, is an illustration of the value of face time. “This project would very much not exist were we not literally next door to each other,” says Wu, an associate professor. In the following conversation with... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
How should a company deliver financial news—both good and bad—to a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including investors, customers, government, and environmentalists? Energy giants Total and BP have learned best practices through trial and... View Details
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
receive higher valuations and less restrictive covenants when they raise capital? Sarah Jane Gilbert: Can you explain the concept of "performance persistence" and what it entails? Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner: Essentially, entrepreneurs who start venture-backed View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
“The feedback I got was I was too young and I was a woman,” she says. “They said, ‘Stay with us. You need maturity. In a year, you will be promoted.’” Instead, she left the firm and chose a more entrepreneurial experience in managing a family-office portfolio. “I... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the microprocessor and the semiconductor; and third, the rise of entrepreneurial activity, which drew... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Trewstar, which helps place more women on public and private company boards. Whatever an individual’s gender identity, she suggests those seeking board service should investigate the group’s dynamic and View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
sustainability is more achievable "if the concept is integrated into the business model at inception." And as Laura Howard put it, "This works best in small companies who can design their entire business and brand around a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
we’ll highlight employee surveillance, assumptions of value neutrality, and right to privacy issues, among others. This article features a timeline of important moments in tech history for further engagement. Let’s expand our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
have implemented balanced scorecards, the performance management system that the pair developed in 1992. In The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, the authors delve into... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. A: Actuarial Thinking. Assessing probabilities and portfolio risk is how property insurance companies... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
place," Srinivasan says. "That is a value judgment, to be sure. But it may not be a bad thing if certain companies are restricted in their access to financing, simply because loss of trust in... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
with key players from the frontlines of digital change, The Content Trap aims to reorient strategy and offers lessons for businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals trying to figure out what to do next. Companies that flourish in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
who have already worked at consulting companies and I-banks arrive with the attitude of been there, done that, let's try something new." Creating Social Value For participants in the social venture track,... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
choose the platform with a restricted number of candidates. This is because those agents value the higher rate of acceptance more than access to more candidates. Agents with higher outside options choose the market with a larger number of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
bringing it back to profitability in 100 days. His next stop was Burger King, where he helped relaunch the brand and turnaround same store sales. Lopdrup first joined Red Lobster as president in 2004, and led a company that was facing... View Details
- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
struggles against conformity, even in an environment as diverse as HBS. Events like these showed me how much I should treasure my own diversity and unique background because these were the passions that would fuel me to make a difference. 3. Shareholder View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
it happen in practice. That’s on the private market side. On the public side, the question is how you can influence the behavior of a company to reflect your values, or protect the long-term value of your... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint