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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
interaction between investor and portfolio-company operating executives will be examined from multiple perspectives. Module 4: Realizations This module examines timing of the exit and highlights the critical... View Details
- 10 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
business development roles. That class, called Launching Technology Ventures, is dedicated to helping train executives in the art of launching, building and scaling startups. Some people wonder whether entrepreneurship can be taught. The... View Details
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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA
providing effective, efficient and tailored solutions to problems. Engineering through the lens of business allows for the solutions to execute its powerful impact in the real world within an organized, cost-effective and data-driven... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
three hours [when they’re] sitting in their seat.” To that end, new ballparks and arenas have begun to include physical diversions such as pools, kid zones, and beer pavilions. But Mariner, former executive vice president and CFO of Major... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
especially those that incorporate emerging forms of social media, support that shift. Equally important, though, is the emergence of cultural norms that favor dialogue over monologue. The benefits that accrue from conversational View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 21 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer
about the service bookends. The first encounter and the last encounter are where the people really remember—the service bookends. And as I started describing what had happened to me, I was very accurate. I told about everything. Up until this point, the faces were... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
average demand increases with both pricing transparency and agent expertise, and that agent expertise interacts positively with competitive intensity. We also find that competition is associated with higher inventory holdings of both cash... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
in the financing of the transcontinental railroad and development of the electrical industry. Henri A. Termeer Papers Document the career of an entrepreneur and biotechnology executive known for leading Genzyme Corporation from 1983 to... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
1978, U.S. airlines were one of the most government-regulated businesses, when suddenly full deregulation changed the competitive landscape once again. How individual executives both shaped the industry and were shaped by it is the... View Details
- Profile
Jeff Bussgang
too. Remember Stephen Covey’s seventh effective habit: ‘sharpening the saw’? By interacting with people like Bill Sahlman, Noam Wasserman and Joe Lassiter – among many other terrific faculty, staff and students – I learn from current... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
economic development, and time-invariant unobserved characteristics of origin and host countries. We further show that egalitarianism correlates in a conceptually compatible way with an array of organizational practices pertinent to firms' View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
are many of the same industries in which constant interaction between R&D and manufacturing are most important, industries where the outsourcing of manufacturing to another country can not only prove to be destructive to the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
and 2009, when the field of ratings seemed ripe for upheaval, Becker learned of several planned rating agency start-ups, including what would become KBRA. When the firm lured ex-Moody's executive Jerome Fons, whom Becker knew, "I... View Details
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FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs - Alumni
video. Click the caret next to the camera to access additional video settings, including choosing a Virtual Background. Displays list of participants and provides additional ways to interact with panelists and/or other attendees Click on... View Details
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Jeremy King
business school seemed be the most efficient way to learn, plus I'd have a chance to study cases and interact directly with many sectors brand new to me." A world of new experiences "Beyond academics," Jeremy says,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
field studies after. We have a strong commitment to ideas as the place where the educational experience begins. In executive education, we might think about increasing the number of programs we offer overseas. We've experimented with... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
company can justify the expense of assembling records. The Internet has transformed how economists interact with these datasets by lowering the cost of storing, updating, distributing, finding, and retrieving this information. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
Buell sprints from the Skydeck, his gray jacket flapping, to add another student idea to the slowly growing list on the chalkboard. The Managing Health Care Delivery Executive Education class is brainstorming ways to improve the customer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel