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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Expanding Horizons
Nishant Sharma (MBA 2006) For Nishant Sharma (MBA 2006), cofounder and managing director of Kedaara Capital Advisors LLP in Mumbai, the impact of HBS has been significant. While the School has had a positive influence on his life, Nishant... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Corey, Lombard Remembered
and coauthored several books and other materials on human relations. In 1962, he largely put aside teaching duties when he was named associate dean for educational affairs, a key position from which he guided the View Details
- March 2013 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Bay Partners (A)
By: Josh Lerner and Lauren Barley
In April 2010, Salil Deshpande has recently resigned from Palo Alto, California-based Bay Partners (Bay) where he had been a general partner. Although Deshpande had built a successful track record at the venture firm, he resigned with two other Bay general partners as... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Conflict Management; Partners and Partnerships; Resignation and Termination; Policy; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry; California
Lerner, Josh, and Lauren Barley. "Bay Partners (A)." Harvard Business School Case 213-102, March 2013. (Revised July 2014.)
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
firms weren’t competitive and didn’t take advantage of business opportunities, a void that foreign firms and foreign capital were poised to fill. Political power in China, Huang says, is still skewed toward stateowned enterprises, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Framing the Future Cindy Song (MBA ’07) is in the business of building. As director of capital expansion and financial services at Habitat for Humanity International, Song manages a $34 million loan... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
a "simplistic view of capitalism and competition and what the market system has to offer. There is no conflict between capitalism and developing skills. Creating a safe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2014
- Working Paper
Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide
By: Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun and B.Y. Cheon
The organizational theory of the multinational firm holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Human Capital; Selection and Staffing; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Markets; Profit; Gender; South Korea
Siegel, Jordan I., Lynn Pyun, and B.Y. Cheon. "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-011, August 2010. (Revised February 2014.)
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
AndrewsHarvard Business School Case 812-004 Toward the end of 2010, companies in the gene sequencing industry were pushing aggressive R&D programs to develop technologies and products in the race to sequence the entire View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing business leaders across the... View Details
- January 1996
- Case
Transportation Displays Incorporated (C): The Case for a Preemptive Restructuring
By: Stuart C. Gilson, Joel T. Schwartz, Steve Silver and David Stemerman
A company nears the end of a long multiyear turnaround and now must consider how to "cash out" so its management can realize a financial return on investment. The privately held company has several options, including a leveraged ESOP and a leveraged recapitalization. View Details
Gilson, Stuart C., Joel T. Schwartz, Steve Silver, and David Stemerman. "Transportation Displays Incorporated (C): The Case for a Preemptive Restructuring." Harvard Business School Case 296-035, January 1996.
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
realized, and they had a say in how a company ran and the ability to influence everything from labor practices to environmental policies. It would be years before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” but she launched Walden View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations about the region, but the high... View Details
- Web
Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
Educational Objectives The goal of this course is for you to develop an investment philosophy, a set of guiding principles that shape your approach to understanding and investing in public capital markets.... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
times, and I had given the finest presentation he had ever heard,” recalls Murphy. “That cold call—and HBS—set me on a path to building my self-confidence and developing the skills to succeed in business.” After graduating as a Baker... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
celebrities including Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and Oprah Winfrey, was drawn to Bono's commitment to conscious capitalism and to the question of what made Bono, well, Bono. "It so clicked for me," she says. "I hadn't listened to U2 in 10... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Intern, Segue Sustainable Infrastructure Segue Sustainable Infrastructure is a principal investment firm providing development capital to renewable energy projects and the infrastructure enabling them, hence... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
that acquisitions can build competitive advantage partially through retention of valuable human capital of the target firm. However, making commitments to retain and motivate successful top managers is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens. "In order for people to get along, they have to respect each other's differences," says Slifka, a successful Wall Street investor who has applied his business talent to various philanthropic ventures that aim to enhance View Details