Financial Product Launch - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

initiative with domestic, international, and U.N. fronts; and 3) launching a new venture requiring internal, capital-raising, licensing, and industrial partnering deals. The need to negotiate multiple, related deals is not new to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

case-centered early-stage entrepreneurship courses like Launching Technology Ventures (LTV), Avoiding Startup Failure, and Founder’s Journey. The cases and exercises focus on early and growth-stage startups. The cases feature startups... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Turning Point: Sparking Change

Gillette, Pillsbury, and L’Oréal. In 2001, I launched The ComfortCake Company, selling pound cakes based on my original recipes to customers ranging from United Airlines to Walmart. But teaching was always at the back of my mind as a... View Details

30 Jun 2017
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Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

the Girl Scouts of the USA, helped launch the ambitious G.I.R.L. brand platform to increase public awareness of the hundred-plus-year-old scouting organization beyond those ubiquitous boxes of cookies. When it comes to the Girl Scout... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2005
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Facing Ambiguity

video interviews and audio reenactments of meetings that take them from the shuttle’s launch to Day 8. On that day, a critical Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting determined that foam strikes that had occurred during the shuttle’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government

30 Apr 2018
Blog Post

HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success

launching its platform in May 2017, Lori Systems now has 52 employees and $10M in system-wide revenue, with plans in place for additional funding and growth. Lori's success has not gone unrecognized: in October 2017, the company won... View Details

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

one in which your product had to operate 100 million miles from Earth and perform under a range of conditions which were hard to predict in advance), it was impossible to know up front exactly what form a faster, better, cheaper approach... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

position. “We both recognized that Leadership Fellows is great for this kind of work – everyone benefits. The organization gets financial support from HBS for the first-year salary, and a pipeline of talent they wouldn’t have access to... View Details

Career Coach

Wendi Zhang

Wendi partners with MBA students and alumni to meet them where they are in their career journey, and 1) if undecided - helps them get clarity, 2) if decided - coaches them in taking the next steps to reach the next goal post(s), and 3) upon reaching the next goal -... View Details

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Podcast - HBS Online

Business School Professor V.G. Narayanan, senior associate dean for HBS Online and Executive Education, joins host Chris Linnane to uncover how financial statements communicate the essentials of business and why accounting is a universal... View Details

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

end in itself may prematurely rule out all kinds of businesses that could otherwise prove successful—businesses like his own Mesken, a direct-to-consumer website that sells custom window treatments manufactured in Bahadir’s native Turkey. The startup has been... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big screen, Diamond was struck by the lack... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

significant impact in the structure and interpretation of financial information of banks. This document explains the major changes on bank accounting, their purpose and structure, and discusses their impact on View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Oct 2020
News

HBS Votes

Ballou-Aares told the Financial Times. HBS Professor Michael Porter, an advisor to Leadership Now who also signed the letter, noted that “business leaders need to throw their support [behind] democratic processes at a time when public... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

even harder to help those in need. Lu, who began doing volunteer work at an early age, has a deep-seated interest in public-sector work. Rather than pursuing the traditional private-sector path the summer after her first year at HBS, Lu chose to serve as a View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Enron’s Legacy

for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron’s board (which was... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

assistance in developing countries. The nonprofit’s inspiration came from Goodwin’s HBS classmate Sam MacHour, whose experiences in Liberia and Burundi convinced him of the need to confront the underlying causes of poverty. While at HBS, MacHour made a passionate plea... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond

of Harvard. “Climate change is such an urgent priority,” says Jennifer Nash, director of the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), “it’s a real opportunity to explore what business is doing and can do.” During these two weeks of the School’s focus on climate... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

enable a competitive advantage, I recommend that the company should focus on establishing its brand. —Ngassam Ngnoumen (MBA 2002) I question whether vinyl is a cool trend or a sustainable product line. Sure, it’s kind of cool. But if it’s... View Details