Investment Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

started reflecting. The first thing I was concerned about, where am I going to find a manager to replace him? This was a difficult department to find just anyone. And then I started wondering, was the problem really all him or could it be me as well? So I came up with... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

As a part of his campaign strategy for the Student Association presidency, Dobron took the unusual step of creating a team of four sectionmates to help him develop a platform based on issues of importance to the student body. Once... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

research gives the field an advantage over other disciplines and will allow us to answer big questions, such as, "What explains the success and failure of entrepreneurs?" If business historians invest in reestablishing the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

16 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

We close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

$30,000, Norton packaged UnErase with other programs he'd written for IBM PC users, selling them under the name Norton Utilities. Norton's stock rose with IBM's, and his original investment grew into multiple millions. No longer active in... View Details

March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
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Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney

In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

campaigns and popular traveling medicine shows that hired both Native and non-Native performers to peddle their products. They even had plans to build a store, which never materialized, where a performer would stir a large kettle of “Sagwa” on display. These marketing... View Details

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

March 2025
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The Changing Climate on Wall Street

By: Clayton S. Rose, Maxim Pike Harrell and Michael Norris

Increasing and conflicting regulatory requirements and political pressures regarding climate change tested the leaders of U.S. financial institutions, as they struggled to determine how best to comply while managing their business and its risks.
In October 2024,... View Details

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18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

met a number of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and came away with "a gut feeling that I could build my own company." So he did, collaborating via Skype with friends located in Israel, Sydney, and Boston and investing $5,000 in what would... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

build my own company.” So he did, collaborating via Skype with friends located in Israel, Sydney, and Boston and investing $5,000 in what would become EyeView. “It didn’t feel like I was taking as much of a risk because I was still a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2020
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New News

declined during the pandemic, now that we’re all at home more. We’re also very strongly invested in email, and we have an app. BA: I’d love to hear more about community. You want to create stickiness, particularly with subscription... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

and my fellow Indian community member’s friends, families, mentors, partners are struggling to stay alive, and this is the time to stand up for them just like they supported and invested in us.” MAY 12 After watching the COVID-19 crisis... View Details

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

companies can set the right incentives and time horizons for investments and create a robust innovation infrastructure in the process. Buy the book: View Details