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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
study included both state-owned enterprises and joint ventures and found that the latter group was consistently more innovative and market-oriented, and had a more competitive corporate culture. "One hope,"... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
make a profit. And then two cents, and then four, and then eight." In 2000, Siebel's revenues were $1.79 billion. "This was one of the most well-attended speaker events we've ever organized," said Jacobsohn. "It was a great opportunity for HBS View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
with one another, making it far easier to do everything from discovering new medicines to designing better batteries. The pharmaceutical and chemical industries have taken note: The venture capital arm of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS
financial services organization to one of the country's most successful investment banking firms. Chalsty plans to be in attendance at the March Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town. He will serve on a panel led by HBS professor André... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
bumpy at best. By 1977, two of the four founding partners had left, leaving Cohen and Maurice Tchénio (MBA ’70) to look for help. Cohen approached Alan Patricof, a pioneering New York venture capitalist, to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
prominent LBO firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice -- as well as $10,000 in cash and in-kind professional services worth $10,000. The judges for the final competition included a number of HBS graduates and represented an array of top View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
Considering an international assignment? Working abroad can be a pivotal juncture in one’s career. Yet making a successful transition to another country isn’t just a question of adjusting to a new culture — it’s also about personal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
You can’t be that impatient. Another lesson from top-tier venture groups is the importance of a global perspective when it comes to best practices and competitive strategies. The smart View Details
- 03 Apr 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke at our class event in New York about why HBS is important to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
For the Greater Good
John A. Paulson (MBA 1980) is president of the investment firm Paulson & Co. and a 2018 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he offers his views on the nature and role of philanthropy as a means to have a positive... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
prosperity depends on innovation." On Competition, a collection of Porter's seminal Harvard Business Review articles about competitive advantage -- which also includes two new articles on clusters and View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
MBA 1972J, and Thomas Lifson, MBA 1976H, for example); others recording only the details of one family’s life are comparatively unknown. But these blogs all share the virtue of allowing easy exposure to personal views about new swaths of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
good feelings and some referrals. For the next few cases, I’m definitely going to implement the [pay-what-you-want] pricing plan: “Because we’re going to be partners in this venture with Social Security, I want you to price my services... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
social and environmental impact, I was asked to join an alumni panel discussing impact investing. Reunion attendees and some professors were quite engaged. That shows real movement and commitment." It's not just her vindication—it's her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
new competitive era." Breaking the Code of Change Edited by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School Press) With the restructuring and upheaval that has characterized life in the corporate... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
should be able to do something like this for the nursing home down the street,” says Hu. Hu’s idea won the HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track in 2012, and the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
An International Perspective
“I’ve been involved in international business ventures my entire career,” says Andrew L. Waite (MBA 1993), a generous supporter of global research at HBS. After majoring in civil engineering at England’s Loughborough University of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
It’s just another picture-perfect day in downtown San Mateo, California, a city that walks the line between high-tech polish and down-home simplicity tucked between San Francisco and the heart of Silicon Valley. “When you’re starting a business, you have to take that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna