HBS Fund - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

protection, and a trust fund to enhance whooping crane habitats elsewhere. Working solo or jointly at the drawing board, negotiators sometimes can discover hidden sources of value and then craft agreements to unlock that value and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Blog

Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application

When you attend an HBS Executive Education program, you never know what opportunities the experience may present. In fact, you could even find yourself becoming part of the teaching team. Ask Deb Barnes, Senior Managing Director of View Details

Career Coach

Kate Shepherd

investing career at mutual funds and hedge funds in both New York City and Boston focusing on the technology sector. She pivoted to advising undergraduate students interested in finance at Bowdoin College... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

Web

Employment Data

Employment Data Employment Data Review HBS Hiring Trends Browse industry, function and location destinations and gain insights around compensation. Class of 2024 Career Data Internship Data What do students do post-HBS? Understand which... View Details

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

– educating oneself on the financing landscape and all that entails is critical to be successful. Resources such as the HBS Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and Startup Hacks can help provide the information on early state View Details

Profile

Mira Mehta

conversation with a man who worked for the Chancellor of Texas Tech University, a woman who worked for a small logistics company in Minnesota, and a man who worked at a Private Equity fund in New York. I didn't have that experience at any... View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

investors. Second, venture capitalists and limited partners might explore the possibility of longer-lived funds: today, the typical venture fund is expected to liquidate its holdings at the end of ten to twelve years. If a View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

Program

Senior Executive Program—Africa

limited amount of partial scholarship funding may be available for qualified applicants from not-for-profit organizations. Please include a request for funding in your application. Blended Learning and... View Details

27 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 27

While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead to higher funding from the World Bank's two main... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Program

Investment Management Workshop

with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Download Brochure Who Should Attend Executives in investment management organizations—including hedge fund firms,... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

primarily on its projected impact on customers but also taking into account its fit with the bank's strategy and goals and its funding requirements. In some cases, focus groups were conducted to provide a rough sense of an idea's likely... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) reflects on her how experience at HBS shaped her career and inspired her to make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped... View Details

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and $100 billion. What triggered this explosive... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

HBS professor emeritus George C. Lodge's idea of a World Development Corporation has been percolating for years—he wrote a seminal article on the proposal in Foreign Affairs in 2002 (reprinted on HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

that I've done over the course of the last 10 years has been field-based, working in conjunction with HBS student teams, partners in business and the nonprofit sector, and especially through the nonprofit that I founded, Doorways to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

May 2021
Teaching Plan

Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads

By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-018. For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Construction; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Housing; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Urban Development; Customization and Personalization; Real Estate Industry; Maharashtra; India; San Francisco

Citation

Purchase

Program

Real Estate Management Program

countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Real estate owners, operators, and private real estate developers Lending officers,... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate

Publications