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  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the climate space and asked them the following, “What... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
  • 20 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

As entrepreneurial rocket companies come closer to shooting the first space tourist into the void, perhaps even this year, another reality is dawning: The business of space is no different than new industries everywhere else. It’s tough... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation
  • January 2024 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Essex County Community Foundation: Pivot to Systems Philanthropy

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Brian Trelstad and Courtney Han
2023 marked five years of the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF)’s “systems philanthropy” approach to grantmaking. Located in northeastern Massachusetts, the community foundation served 800,000 residents across 34 cities and towns that varied widely by... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Reputation; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Alignment; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Massachusetts
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  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

challenges and opportunities posed by digital platforms, The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power is a new book by Harvard Business School Professor David... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

old vine vineyard, and has limited resources, he must decide if this is the right investment to make next. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718438-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

L.E. Simmons

Simmons & Company, an investment banking firm specializing in the oil field service industry. "It's a fascinating industry that encompasses all the businesses that manufacture a product or provide a service... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

company I was considering joining after school.   Enter Plaid. Plaid is a startup that enables businesses to access their users’ financial information by streamlining the connection to their users’ bank accounts. This service is not only... View Details
  • October 1982 (Revised September 1988)
  • Case

Steven B. Belkin

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Steven Belkin, 26 years old and 2 1/2 years out of HBS, has decided to leave a group travel company he has run for the last year to start his own similar business. In the course of several months he has written a business plan, attracted several partners and employees,... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Decisions; Equity; Investment; Personal Finance; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Failure; Partners and Partnerships
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  • 16 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

is ready for audiences, making them risky and expensive propositions. “Each one is a huge project, and the success rate is quite low,” says Hong Luo, the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Associate Professor of Business Administration in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 25 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

increase their occupancy rates significantly, bringing their earnings more in line with the higher rental incomes of white hosts, according to a study coauthored by Shunyuan Zhang, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

he explains, "We had our best year ever. We borrowed in US dollars and invested in Brazilian reais. It was incredible." By 1997, the once small Pactual had grown into a large institution. When his business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 27 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

college knowing, based on conversations with mentors and looking at my role models in business, that I wanted to go to business school,” he said. HBS was also always his top choice. “I chose ICV (as my next company after working in View Details
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

  Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2024
  • Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

during travel. In fact, tourism accounts for about 8% of the world’s carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Pollution from travel also has major impacts on human health. One approach to help offset the negative impact of travel on the... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

colleagues and managers online, fearing that the connection could come with career risks, according to a recent study in the Academy of Management Journal. The study—OMG! My Boss Just Friended Me: How Evaluations of Colleagues’... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • Web

ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there. Creating Urban Opportunity ICIC's mission is to... View Details
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

Finding Your Family at HBS

Let’s be real, I had many concerns coming to Harvard Business School.  I am in my 30s; would I feel old? I am a veteran; would I feel lost? I am a language major; would I pass finance? I am married and we’re long distance; would I feel... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

an inflection point. Laitsas found that he had learned a great deal from investment banking but didn’t see himself in the industry long-term. As a way to hit the reset button on his career path, Laitsas turned his attention towards... View Details
  • 2019
  • Article

Go-Shops Revisited

By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
A go-shop process turns the traditional M&A deal process on its head: rather than a pre-signing market canvass followed by a post-signing “no shop” period, a go-shop deal involves a limited pre-signing market check, followed by a post-signing “go shop” process to find... View Details
Keywords: Go-shop Process; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Deal; Performance Effectiveness; Technological Innovation
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  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

and where the host does not punish symbiont misbehavior. Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B Organizations Authors:Frank V. Cespedes Publication:In Business to Business Marketing Handbook. Edward Elgar... View Details