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- March 2015
- Case
BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm
By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.
In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
Sahlman, William A., and Robert F. White. "BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 815-702, March 2015.
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Harvard Business School
- present Noel H. Watson Assistant Professor 2002 - 2009 2010s Henry W. McGee Senior Lecturer 2013 - present MBA 1979 Paula A. Price Senior Lecturer 2014 - present Steven S. Rogers Senior Lecturer 2012 - present MBA 1985 Shelle M. Santana... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Algramo
By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
Chu, Michael, Monica Silva, and Mariana Cal. "Algramo." Harvard Business School Case 321-079, September 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
& Young's New Jersey Entrepreneur Of The Year, Technology 2013 SHI International reaches $5 billion in revenue Thai Lee has an extraordinary ability to take the long view. After earning a degree in economics and biology from Amherst... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
1974 Named Executive Director, Unibanco 1983 Launches Banco Pactual S.A. 1998 Launches JGP Asset Management 2001 Joins HBS Board of Dean's Advisors 2002 Jakurski House opens, British School 2002 Named Chair, HBS Latin America Advisory Board 2010 Joins Brady Board,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
2013 joined Stanford University as an assistant professor of management science and engineering. Valentine says one caveat of the quantitative improvement is that the hospital was not performing as well as its peers before the redesign.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
Yanhui Wu of the University of Hong Kong. “That’s good because we want people to have a more competitive spirit and produce better and more creative content.” A novel approach The researchers studied more than 10,000 novels appearing on one of China’s most popular... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
Colgate–Palmolive, Product Manager 1991 Named SVP of Marketing and Product Development, Converse 1994 Joins Core Strategy Group, Partner 1996 Named President, Keds 2002 Launches Strategic Grant Partners 2013 SGP has granted more than $40... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
distinctive qualities—which a 2013 New York Times article described as “tasting softer and richer” than most syrups and pouring with “a languor more like that of honey”—in part to suspending harvesting earlier in the season than many... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
It's a sad, quantitative fact that bribery runs so rampant in the world that it has become a Darwinian business tool. A July 2013 report from Transparency International finds that more than one in four people paid a bribe in the past... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
startups. And when the 2013 Boston Marathon was attacked, Weiss helped establish the One Fund within 24 hours to serve as a central pool for donations to victims. "The One Fund ended up channeling $60 million to survivors and to the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) is frank. “It’s been a wild ride. I’ve learned so much,... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
2013. 2013 Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the Columbia Millstein Center & Investor Responsibility Research Center Grant, 2013. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2013 Fama-DFA Second Place Prize for the Best Paper... View Details
- July 2021
- Article
Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020
By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Importance: Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health care policies.
Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details
Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details
Kluender, Raymond, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. "Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 326, no. 3 (July 2021): 250–256.
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Harvard Business School
Safeway and spent 16 years at PepsiCo in various management positions. Henry W. McGee MBA 1979 Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as president of Home Box Office (HBO) Home Entertainment. During his 34-year career... View Details
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Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs
“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”
Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details
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Julie Battilana's Most Recent Columns for "Le Monde"
By: Julie Battilana
Julie Battilana is a regular contributor to the French newspaper "Le Monde." Below are her most recent articles.
Where are the Political Ideas Being Produced?
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- 08 Nov 2013
- HBS Seminar
Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
Levi Belnap, MBA 2013 Roman Belotserkovskiy, MBA 2009 Kelly Bennett, MBA 2008 Varun Bhartia, MBA 2014 Rajesh Bilimoria, MBA 2002 Benjamin Black, MBA 2013 John S. Bracken Privahini Bradoo, MBA 2008 Jahanzeb... View Details
- 7 PM – 9 PM PST, 26 Feb 2015
HBS San Francisco Young Alumni Reception
HBS alumni MBA 2010-2014 are invited to an evening of socializing and networking in San Francisco. View Details