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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds | Baker Library

select Year Founded. Enter desired value. By adding a fairly recent founding date, this helps ensure that the funding was recent (there's no way to add a date value to the funding in a company screening).... View Details

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Polina Yampolska

stars... Per aspera ad astra. Unbelievably, my wish came true. Here at HBS, engrossed in the social and developmental psychology that underlies Organizational Behavior disciplines, I have discovered that my path to the stars lies within... View Details

07 May 2019
News

How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal

attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding prospects for investment. Around that... View Details

27 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

word out about the recall. Among other methods, the company is using bold red ads on high-traffic Internet sites such as Yahoo.com to find owners of the affected products and drive them to the Mattel Web site for more recall information.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products

01 Jun 1999
News

Joel Bines

offered by his parents, who, he says, "taught me the value of extending myself and working hard." Bines's forays into the unfamiliar began just after his graduation from Bates College. After serving as a student intern for the... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh

then rent to marketers, who send our members online advertisements that match their stated interests and activities." So what's in it for members? ClickDough shares with them at least 50 percent of the revenues it earns from advertisers, whose View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

31 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Bring your authentic self to work: Advice from HBS alumni

felt the most affirmed and championed when my team has seen my distinct lived experience as an asset, not just an advertisement opportunity. Social Finance did just that and allowed me to leverage my queer identity and global health background to add View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

that later crashed to fractions of their peak value. "I don't know what people were smoking, but it wasn't legal, I suspect," he said, adding that many overvalued companies "were in the job of selling stock rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

01 Dec 2002
News

Books

Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine The Support Economy by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxim Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine (McGraw HIll) Were it not for the years HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana spent... View Details

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Benefits & Compensation | Research Associates

adding to your skill set, or just exploring a new topic of study, the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) allows you to enroll in undergraduate and graduate level courses at Harvard Extension School for as little as $40—or take advantage of... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

off his student loans, Özyeğin gained skills at HBS that propelled his future successes. "I learned how to make decisions," he says. "It was not just a classroom experience. It was the campus atmosphere that added tremendous View Details

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Changing Permissions on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services

Option 1: Add 'execute' to the owner’s ("user") permissions researchgrid$ chmod u+x *.pdf Option 2: Alternate way to add 'execute' to the owner’s ("user") permissions. ‘r’ has value of 4, ‘w’ is 2, ‘x’ is 1, so ‘rwx’ for owner is 7... View Details

17 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

depleted many pension plans by dramatically reducing the value of investments, even while companies were still responsible for paying predetermined benefits. Increasing the pressure are two other factors. Life expectancy has increased,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

Industries." One key aspect of the Internet revolution to keep in mind, began Applegate, is that new business models continue to draw on essential information and values that have always driven business. "This is an evolutionary process,"... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

Abstract Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the number of times it... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2025
News

Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank

comfortable with technology. We also refined our AI-powered “Speech-To-Story” engine, which transforms spoken words into beautifully written stories. Finally, we’ve added features that make it easier for families to share these recordings... View Details

02 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

built up a strong retail market share in the U.S., not under the RBS brand, but through a series of acquisitions of regional (not national) banks. RBS is adding value for its shareholders by letting these... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

agreement to give ownership of the Canal back to Panama in the 1970s was not a gesture of magnanimity, but because the strategic and economic value of ownership had since disappeared. In a surprise to those who argued that it was... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2003
What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

the shaping of values and ethical behaviors just as it does with various skills needed for the job? If so, does this suggest an added dimension for business school training, i.e., the preparation of leaders... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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