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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
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
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
Afghanistan. Information gathering for the field project began before the team left Boston. The group’s on-the-ground experience, however, provided much-needed cultural context — the heart of any IXP experience. “Most of the renewals for Tele-10’s satellite television... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
cash if you wanted to buy a house,” he says. “Today, there is a huge market for ten- or fifteen-year mortgages. These markets are being created as we speak. It’s phenomenal.” If money isn’t an obstacle, management talent and experience... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Home underway, Bob Ryan realized a shiny new building would not solve the business’s other challenges. He tracked cash flow, collaborated with an employment law firm to iron out personnel issues, and helped Estes secure financing for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
activity among HBS graduates and connects alumni with faculty, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors. This year, Privahini Bradoo won the $25,000 cash prize for BioMine, a novel solution to the millions of tons of... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
as well as a positive brand image, good relationships with key customers, and some $250 million cash (and no debt). "For me," Charron notes, "it was simply a question of how to deploy those assets and how to take advantage of the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
divided. Some felt sure that Adrià should be doing more to cash in on his name; others said he would destroy what he has worked so hard to build. In December, students had the opportunity to hear from the man himself when Adrià visited... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
how to convert a brilliant idea into something that actually pays, get necessary funding to expand, build a great team of staff and advisers, keep the cash flowing, and go global. View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
the largest player in this industry is still pretty small,” says Malkina. “The biggest thing to figure out is how we can grow at or below our optimal customer acquisition cost at a much greater scale. We have the cash to invest in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
of mentor capitalism brought HBS professor Dorothy A. Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University to Singapore and Hong Kong last fall. The pair had been studying Silicon Valley mentor-capitalists (successful entrepreneurs who have View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
and capabilities, providing resources, skills and cash to help the firm get back on its feet (and at a time when the firm was worth more to a buyer). Last year, my money was on Microsoft. Windows phone has never lived up to expectations,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
building group cohesion. Leaders can no longer just “rally the troops.” Instead, they must employ more positive means to span boundaries, affirm identity, cultivate trust, and collaborate productively. Bootstrapping 101: Tips to Build Your Business with Limited View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
the concept while preserving and establishing satisfactory cash flow. —Roger Strang (DBA 1977) Expand as rapidly as possible within any con straints of capital. There are probably very few barriers to entry in creating such a marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
angels asked to change some conditions in a radical way one day prior to the closing. This put us in a delicate cash position, yet we refused to renegotiate, and the deal collapsed. In the end, we were lucky enough to be oversubscribed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Prospective students made the rankings cash machines for the publishers, and for better or worse, the rankings came to dominate would-be students’ perceptions of business schools. As the media rankings gained popularity, criticism of... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
commitment to another level. Our goal is to do everything we can to achieve progress on each of the targeted pillars, and we will work tirelessly to make real change.” The 10-year initiative, comprised of $20 million in cash and $5... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
company that is doing great, growing like crazy, and then it runs out of cash and just about goes bust. The very simple lesson was, “Never run out of cash.” We always kept that as the first case in finance because in some sense that was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
a “gift from the government,” but rather an asset with a strong future value that brought neighbors together and gave strength to families where so much had been lost. This gift of the first calf was incredibly significant. A cow, it turns out, can often provide a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan
were battening down the hatches and assessing where we were from a cash perspective, trying to get a sense of what the baseline was going to feel like. Then we started to get very creative and scrappy about taking care of people yet still... View Details