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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall economy," says F. Barton Harvey (MBA '74), (see related story) chairman and CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
the truth is that women-led enterprises grow more slowly and remain much smaller than those created by men. In 2000, for instance, American firms owned by women averaged $2.4 million in sales, compared with an average of $12.3 million for... View Details
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Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
- January 2010
- Teaching Note
Youth Villages: The challenges of scaling a nonprofit with government as the primary funding source (TN)
Teaching Note for [309007]. View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the company I had started. At this point, with a wife and six-day-old daughter, I decided to apply for admission to HBS. Attending the MBA program, living in Cambridge, and meeting young, enterprising Americans, resulted in my immigrating... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
Discussion of new model of social enterprise that applies the venture capital model to social enterprise. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811053-PDF-ENG Redesigning a 401(k) Plan at Haley-Midland Robert C. Pozen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
barware, and accessories.) Ocean plastic is a particularly vexing environmental problem: By contaminating our water and killing marine life, it endangers everything higher up the food chain—including us. That’s why Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007) cofounded and heads the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
critical, although changing role in determining constraints and opportunities in the communications sector." Turning to the issue of privatization, Emmons explains that governments in both developed and developing countries have increasingly pursued sales of... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey By: Coplan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This working paper examines the origins and development of the Koç Group, which grew to be the largest business group in Turkey. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)
By: James E. Austin
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Agreements and Arrangements; Product; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Bangladesh; Washington (state, US)
Austin, James E. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 590-061, April 1990. (Revised November 1992.)
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
enterprises fuels anti-China sentiment. At Chambishi copper mine, a 2005 explosion, caused by management's shoddy adherence to safety standards, killed nearly 50 miners and sparked outrage among Zambians. The explosion marked the first in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
Enterprise Reform Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School Module Note 712-028 The note examines state capitalism in the twenty-first century. It introduces a series of topics and cases related to state capitalism, such as the debate about... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
"failure" rates to near zero. NewCo, a firm that designs enterprise servers, obtained a different type of benefit. In one recent project, the firm was having difficulty meeting the target cost due to the high price of one component. So... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
general management. It was a school that was associated with developing leaders who would go out and run large, complex enterprises or build new entrepreneurial ventures. It was about educating the kind of people whom I always had... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
SKS Microfinance (TN)
By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208137]. View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
sixth-generation business, said it is possible for enterprises such as his to adapt to change. "The issue is flexibility and being able to diversify," he advised. Speaking from his company's experience, Zobel said that family businesses... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
test kits to fund frontier research into cardio diagnostics. More risky than pursuing blockbusters is not to pursue them, to condemn your enterprise to a lifetime of slave labor harvesting the long tail of micro-opportunities rather than... View Details