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21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home

platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

many HBS graduates, to invest in new ways of solving old problems. The five social entrepreneurs featured below are a representative sample of the scores of alums who have dedicated themselves to creating or working for organizations that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

25 May 2016
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Supporting Critical Initiatives

focuses research and teaching on the advancement of women leaders and the promotion of gender equity in business and society. Raun Schlesinger, managing director/head of self-storage investments at W.P.... View Details

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

battery cells used in electric vehicles. Theme 3: There Is Nothing "Natural" About Erosion of the Industrial Commons—Management and Policy Matter The erosion of the industrial commons in the United States is the result not of the "invisible hand" of markets but rather... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

July 2018
Article

Global Collaborative Patents

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Ethnic Networks; Migration; Technology Transfer; Mobility; Information Technology; Globalized Firms and Management; Diasporas; Patents; Ethnicity; Entrepreneurship; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; Globalization; United States

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25 Aug 2022
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Ink: The Three-Step Startup

three-step process, and you can’t skip the second step. Solve is an iterative process. You will not get it right the first time. So iterate, test hypotheses, invest small amounts of resources at first, and make incremental progress to the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Mar 2012
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Speak English, Please!

much that companies can do to reassure and help employees with this transition, she adds. First, it’s crucial for CEOs and management to be firm that nonnative speakers don’t have a problem. All employees have to be View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

casebook. The cases in these modules illustrate the range of issues that arise in multinational financial management—from managing foreign currency exposures to determining a subsidiary's capital structure to valuing an View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

24 Apr 2014
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Changing the way the world sees Africa

became a managing director of the Goldman Sachs investment banking division in New York, leaving in 2010 to launch Africa.com. The website, which generates more than 6 million page views each month, presents... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria

explains Nwuneli. AACE’s product line includes spices, spreads, sauces, and other foods grown in Nigeria. The company is one of two ventures managed by the couple’s investment firm, Sahel Capital. The other... View Details

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Influencing Practice | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

One of the primary interfaces between the Social Enterprise Initiative and practitioners is through our open enrollment and custom Executive Education programs offered each year. 1_0fzgdmtm Strategic Perspectives In Nonprofit Management... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Peter is the Founder & Managing Partner of Stellation Capital, an early stage venture capital firm headquartered in Brooklyn. Prior to this, he spent eight years as a Partner at General Catalyst, a venture capital firm that View Details

Rob Gierkink

Rob (MBA 1991) has founded or co-founded six companies, with combined exits totaling more than $2.25 billion. He is an Executive in Residence at General Catalyst Partners where he principally invests in technology companies that work with... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital;#1;#Advertising;#16;#Consumer Products & Packaged Goods

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

levels of management was a theme running through several comments. As Dennis Nelson put it, "When an organization knows on what investments its existence depends, and the various returns on its... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2005
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House of Bread on the Rise

her House of Bread was soon doing a brisk business. “Frankly, the first bakery was successful from day one, and I just thought everything was so easy,” says McCann, who also invested heavily in an information system that tied cash... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Feb 2001
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In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs

to Lead" and sponsored by the student-run Entrepreneurship Club, offered a fresh look at today's changing entrepreneurial environment. Guy Kawasaki, founder and CEO of the venture-capital investment bank Garage.com, kicked off the October... View Details

Keywords: Information

01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace

PensionBee in 2014 to address this lack of continuity and introduce transparency to an industry that’s known to be convoluted and confusing. The company is able to track down a customer’s pension plans and consolidate them into one, which can be View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (220) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details

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Frank Spencer

know the details of the plan. You just have to be willing to participate with others in the work." "Real estate is the thread that's run through my career," adds Spencer, who most recently served as president of Cogdell Spencer Inc., a publicly traded... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Services

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

Investments in demand management and in investments in transmission and distribution allow people to get more work from the same kilowatts, allow renewable energy to go farther... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

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