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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
might not like particular policies). This will give a big boost to business and consumer confidence. Under Biden and Harris, drama and uncertainty will be replaced by goal clarity and communication transparency. President-elect Biden’s Cabinet and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
three years' service in Poland and Russia as a top-level advisor to those countries' market-oriented reformers. Sachs's methods are often called “shock treatment,” but Djelic begs to differ. “It's not shock treatment,” he declares. “It's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
do the job well, and people will offer you more responsibility. Commitment. Demonstrate that you are excited about your job, and people will invest in you. Compatibility. Prove that you can get along with your teammates and managers, and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing or able to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
investing in people even prior to the achievement of results. Context Using examples from sports and business, and responding to numerous listener questions, Professor Kanter discussed her research and conclusions from her most recent... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
(e.g., email addresses) at the time of checkout. Index soon added automated marketing tools and payment/security tools (e.g., encryption) to its product portfolio. However, selling to large retail chains had proved challenging—many... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
of one-off contributions, constant mentoring and co-authorship with younger colleagues, distillation of advice into accessible and memorable forms, and investment in an institutional legacy. Beyond these aspects, which I elaborated in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
will involve a variety of approaches. M. Colyer Crum During more than thirty years on the HBS faculty, Colyer Crum, the James R. Williston Professor of Investment Management, has established a reputation not only as an expert in finance... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and know the things that you need to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
encouragement. Entrepreneurship is like an intellectual onion, one of his Finance advisors told him. You peel it and peel it, it makes you cry, and there’s nothing in the middle. There were some exceptions to this institutional... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
Meet Rebekah Emanuel – she’s the senior advisor for social impact at the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-lab). A McKinsey alum and HBS grad, Rebekah served as executive director of Imagine Boston, the first long-term plan for the City of... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
PublicationsSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcácer and Paul Ingram Publication:American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming). Abstract Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
businesses via the Internet, evolved into a completely automated end-to-end solution. Pandesic was a spectacular failure. It sold very few systems and shut its doors in February 2001 after having spent more than $100 million. It is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
way of mirroring what's going on among graduates. It seems unlikely that we will just walk away from the new economy, which many in the class helped create. As Dave Frost wrote in a 1998 class note, "Have you noticed how many of us are involved in corporate... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
concentrated in hedge funds but is not present for investment advisors or pension funds. Overall, our results suggest that private meetings help a select group of investors make more informed trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
with all these ideas that the company could be taken over and it’s not being well run and a lot of youthful naivete and enthusiasm. So in those first few months of '87 after my dad died, I'd study for my cases that night, go to class. But then in the evening, I'd be... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
financial advisors to make saving and investment decisions. Low literacy and lack of information affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; ignorance about basic financial concepts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
entities include all for-profit and nonprofit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, search funds, and other investment vehicles. A faculty venture is any entity that is, or... View Details