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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing innovative ways to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
fascinating character to animate sometimes dry legalese.” Gleason’s quest for fair trade, or price protection, would not be easy. First off, the term “fair trade” in the 1930s had a different meaning than it does today when we use it to describe a social movement that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
developing AIDS, which has made him a subject of great medical interest. With his wife, Anne, Massie feels enormously grateful to be able to look to the future of his three children, as well as to his own (a return to the ministry or to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joked in his speech.) Related Links A Blueprint for Patient-Driven Drug Development Gene Williams (MBA 1987) Blavatnik Gift Accelerates Biomedical Advances Oscar Winners Even worse is what... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
students was given four assets to sell to classmates, and I constrained the deal process so that they would have to either auction or negotiate. But despite my efforts to keep the two mechanisms pure, auctions regularly devolved into View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
Academy, business schools, medical schools, law schools, military institutions, and research centers. This workshop is intended to serve as a catalyst for global leadership development at the highest levels of international policy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
to lose faith in the rationality of the market and closed his fund. Next-step options, such as a CFO or director of corporate development position, filled his head as he left the top-floor co-op of the Brooklyn Heights town house where he... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
and encourages the continued creation of deep knowledge within the field, as well as collaborative research across disciplines that develops and incorporates insights from service operations. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n = 31,160). By highlighting how gendered aspects of both the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
should be able to command more compensation, but never tried to see if that was true. So I decided to collect data on the executives in new ventures and on the ventures themselves, to see what the real story was. My dataset for this project included 1,238... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
Satchu, Reza, Tom Quinn, and Andrew Kosc. "Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 825-037, July 2024.
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
potential for improvement as a reason to avoid the action. In an experiment, making more salient how a donation could be improved significantly decreases giving. Self-serving motives dramatically magnify the effect, suggesting why information may be particularly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
(both MBA 1996) proposed the contest as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. “We looked at it as not just a theoretical paper for class but a sustainable plan,” says Wagonfeld, who was then... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
Robert S. Kaplan Publication:Balanced Scorecard Report 13, no. 5 (September-October 2011) Abstract In the second article of our two-part series, we explore the concept of an Office of Risk Management along with a case study of an innovative risk management function at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
Alstyne Abstract Platform-mediated networks encompass several distinct types of participants, including end users, complementors, platform providers who facilitate users' access to complements, and sponsors who develop platform... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
further this cause across the private and public sectors. Henry Liu - MBA ‘19 I was born and raised in France, where, as a child, I only thought of myself as French. Despite living in a homogeneous population, I never once questioned my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
then at actor Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertainment, producing last year’s hit comedy Hitch and 2004’s Saving Face, a romantic comedy about a Chinese-American lesbian’s coming out in her tradition-bound community. Now an independent producer, Zee is... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid's peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now, with markets in the View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Automation in Zurich, Switzerland. More importantly, I love my work every day. It turns out that committing myself to serve others was more important than an impressive ceremony I missed, and somehow, what looked like a detour in my career became an integral aspect of... View Details