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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
students, alumni, and affiliates in which winners in five tracks get a $75,000 prize and runners-up a $25,000 prize thanks to more than $500,000 in prize money provided by the Bertarelli Foundation, cofounded by Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
the money that oil companies spend flows through these businesses." Riding out the sometimes stomach-churning ups-and-downs of the oil business, for fifteen years L.E. and Matt Simmons have been an influential force in the oil fields. A... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
despite cost-effective FinTech alternatives, many European migrant communities continued to rely on expensive money transfer operators for monthly remittances averaging around 200 per migrant. This puzzling trend emerged due to two key... View Details
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the 1930s, investments were generally targeted for trusts, pensions, and other conservative funds rather than emerging industries. 32 The urgent military needs during World War II had fostered... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
the number of employees had grown to 140. Sityodtong then moved to New York City, where he bought his mother an apartment and launched a career on Wall Street as a hedge fund manager. Having enough money to... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
“There are many things that entrepreneurs can do to position themselves to bounce back from a failure.” If new funds aren’t forthcoming, the founder will likely put the company up for sale, confronting prospective buyers who’ll play a... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
The enterprise continued to make money even as it turned slowly to lose market share in a post-monopoly world. The positive net income helped greatly in supporting complacency. In frustration, his change agents waited and waited for a... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
“The industry is hard,” she says. “You need tons of money to get started. Almost all restaurants go broke after the first year. And very few people get beyond one or two locations.” Azuero was intrigued, yet it wasn’t until the pair met... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
reality is that we don’t really know if commercial space flight will ultimately be a money maker, how many competitors will fit in the market, or what demand will be for consumers taking off on space vacations after the initial enthusiasm... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
Quantifying performance and measuring results are no longer the sole domain of for-profit enterprises. Today, many nonprofit organizations also find themselves on the hot seat—not with stockholders but with donors who expect similar levels of accountability to show how... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
change the way a charitable organization solicits donations. “Donors don’t just want to buy medical equipment and supplies. They want to buy outcomes” Rather than asking for funds toward a new building or a supply of medicine, Partners in... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are generally sound, and hedge funds... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
potential investors. To the extent that founders tend to be very confident in their startup's prospects, they may even be more inclined to take money from friends and family, happily imagining those close to them sharing in the startup's... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
Developing skill as an effective acquirer is an important muscle for scaling companies and now is a great time to test out that skill. 6. Consider financing There is a ton of money out there looking for great companies to invest in. View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
state resources,” he says. “I saw an unbelievable group of people trying to provide kids with a quality education.” A longtime supporter of education, Pechter had given time and money to scholarship funds in... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)
time and money around that goal. There are so many opportunities at HBS; you can literally have 3 opportunities for every slot on your calendar, so I imposed a yes/no framework that helped me prioritize: Is this something that would help... View Details
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Judges - Alumni
sustainable business model Explain precisely how your company makes money and how you plan to scale. If you have a clear path to profitability, highlight it. Anticipate tough questions Be prepared for challenging investor questions. Show... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are hints of optimism as more people gain access to vaccines and the federal government injects more stimulus money into the economy. Yet, the outlook for workers remains mixed. The crisis has... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson