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Skydeck - Alumni

room, the elements of effective corporate governance, and what to look for when seeking a board role Lesson Plans 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Sal Khan’s (MBA 2003) ambition for Khan Academy: Empower billions of learners and... View Details
  • October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
  • Case

NOWaccount

By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

impact within your organization and society. 6 weeks, 6-7 hrs/week Enroll by May 1 $1,850 Certificate Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Professor Nien-he Hsieh Develop a toolkit for making tough leadership decisions with... View Details
  • April 2019
  • Technical Note

A Note on Boards in VC-Backed Ventures

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda, Suraj Srinivasan and Terrence Shu
What is the value of a Board, and why does a company need one? The note documents the formal role of a Board of Directors as going beyond simply acting as legal representation of corporate ownership. Moreover, this role changes as the company moves through different... View Details
Keywords: Founders; Business Startup; Board; Board Of Directors; Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

    Ray A. Goldberg

    A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

    ... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
    • 15 May 2019
    • News

    How to Attract Startups and Tech Companies to a City Without Relying on Tax Breaks

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    Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

    Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures executive education program. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship... View Details
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    Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    must have a bias for action. TEM teaches you how to decompose such complex situations, identify critical choices confronting the enterprise, and make high-risk/high reward decisions with limited data. Andrews, Kenneth. The Concept of View Details

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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      Curriculum - Business & Environment

      concepts: Business and Government Relations, Business Ethics, Corporate Governance Leadership and Corporate Accountability Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Unilever and the... View Details
      • October 2021 (Revised December 2021)
      • Case

      PhonePe: Democratizing Payments in India

      By: Michael Chu and Rachna Tahilyani
      The co-founders of PhonePe, India’s leading digital payment platform are considering pursuing various growth opportunities in a huge country just entering the digital age. In a highly competitive industry, the founders are keenly aware that making the right choices is... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platform; Digital Banking; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Financial Services Industry; Asia; India
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      • 09 Feb 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

      story and they understood there was an enormous amount of pride and optimism."4 In addition to open and honest communication and continued investment in HCHP management practices, corporations need to develop an a priori set of... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • August 2022 (Revised November 2024)
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      Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough's Rise

      By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
      In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise. Maynard had... View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investment; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Financial Reporting; Small Business; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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      • 22 Nov 2016
      • First Look

      November 22, 2016

      16% greater measurement error variance and imply an average performance penalty of 106 to 277 basis points in annual returns. Finally, reduced-form estimates suggest that ineffective and index-based RPE benchmarks are associated with poorer View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • January 2011
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      Founder-CEO Succession at Acer

      By: Noam T. Wasserman, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
      Stan Shih, founder-CEO of Acer, Inc., had proactively chosen and transitioned the "perfect" successor as CEO, but was now faced with major problems. Over the last two years, his heir apparent, Leonard Liu, had made the changes he had been hired to make, including... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Management Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Conflict Management
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      • April 2006 (Revised October 2008)
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      Marketing New York City

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Anita Elberse and Marie Bell
      New York City is a pioneer in the emerging field of municipal marketing. The city's first chief marketing officer must develop a marketing organization with a self-funded business model that creates value for the city by leveraging the city's assets, including physical... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Goals and Objectives; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Value Creation; New York (city, NY)
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      • 30 Jan 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: January 30, 2007

      Geographic Region Author:Mukti Khaire Abstract Most of what organizational scholars know about new industry emergence and entrepreneurship in new industries comes from studies of completely new industries that were born out of... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • February 2019 (Revised November 2024)
      • Case

      Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)

      By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier and Anna Resman
      This case covers the rise and fall of Theranos, the company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2004 to revolutionize the blood testing industry by creating a device that could provide from a small finger prick the same results and accuracy as intravenous blood draws. As... View Details
      Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; Lawsuits and Litigation
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      • 01 Aug 2023
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?

      Keywords: Re: Regina E. Herzlinger; Pharmaceutical; Health