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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
venture capital. Two years later, she sold the firm, Rubric, Inc., for $366 million. Securing the venture-capital investment was a major challenge, she told a capacity crowd gathered for the fourteenth annual Dynamic Women in Business... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
Transformed by a large, canopied stage and row after row of folding chairs, Baker Beach took on the guise of its more stately alter ego, Baker Lawn, and served as an ideal venue for the Class of 2001's Class Day and graduation ceremonies... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
their capacity and dramatically improve results. “Never, at least in recent history, have there been so many people who have been so engaged in trying to make their communities and the world a better place,” says Tierney, chairman of the... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
see what they could do. In the end, the group decided to start a school. “In 2003 I took what I thought would be a nine-month leave of absence from Corning to help establish ASMS,” she says. The school opened in 2004 with 20 enrolled students and is now at View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
insides of their companies as they do to shaping the institutional context within which the companies operate. That’s because everything is a work in progress. You really can’t throw your hands up and say, “I’ll wait for the government to do it,” because the View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead
panelist Mark H. Moore said, “Business has the capacity to provide solutions” to the world’s problems, and “individuals have the desire to create a good society,” but government needs to play a key role. He urged the SEI to incorporate... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
directly to their performance, as it is in business, but rather to policy and politics at the state and local levels. Districts for the most part can't choose their customers; they have a mandate to serve all students (customers) who... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
from the people they set out to serve. "The way a traditional relationship works makes you jump through hoops to fill out the paperwork. We go to providers and say, 'Set your own rate, set a fair rate, set it based on what kind of available View Details
- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates
candidates feel excluded. Job postings are an important marketing tool and should convey an inclusive message if you hope to build a more diverse team. We also recommend explicitly stating your organization's commitment to diversity and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
enabler for this. Clean has an international component, and there's an ongoing negotiation and green race among countries. There's a lot of capacity building that needs to go on here." Until very recently, all of that work in China... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
own investment portfolios, and whether they should be investing more in the United States or globally,” Viceira says. First things first. Why have markets become increasingly correlated? The paper proposes two possibilities. The first... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
is factoring into their life situation? Butler: At the core of my work with individuals, and my writing on this topic, is my model of implicit and symbolic intelligence. Each of us, at any given moment, has the capacity to experience the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Alumni Relations Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA16, 2017), the discussion focused on differences between the state of the COVID-19 crisis in Canada, the US, and the rest of the world. The webinar touched upon most recent clinical and therapeutic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Danelle Radney
Porter fifteen years ago.” As Director of Strategic Initiatives, Danelle will create a master plan for corporate relations. “It’s exactly what I came to HBS to do – become a consultant helping to build the capacity of nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
more than 15,000 children in ten states and the District of Columbia. When they came to Bridgespan, HCZ and Youth Villages both ran successful programs that faced difficult organizational and strategy challenges impeding their growth.... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) ORIGINAL COLUMN: There is increasing talk about stimulating $1 trillion in spending on the aging United View Details
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
the United States of America. “The temporariness induces you to take more risks—to share more risqué or uninhibited content” The paper, titled Temporary Sharing Prompts Unrestrained Disclosures That Leave Lasting Negative Impressions, was... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
euros. Currently overseeing 4.9 million square meters of real estate, RFH is ambitiously planning the construction of two additional facilities, further expanding its footprint in the global flower market. With the area of its warehouses comparable to that of the... View Details
- May 2009 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008
By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
On September 23, 2008, in the midst of an historic crisis in the U.S. financial markets, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. Goldman CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, said: "We are pleased that given our longstanding relationship, Warren... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Investment; Performance Capacity; Financial Services Industry; United States
Rose, Clayton S., and David Lane. "Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008." Harvard Business School Case 309-069, May 2009. (Revised June 2011.)