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06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

enrolled in the course Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. In it, Izquierdo began sketching the outline of a tech-enabled business model that would eliminate everything she disliked about restaurants; namely, that... View Details

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

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

in Motion In late 2012, the management team of Myomo, a startup that had designed a unique myoelectric arm brace for patients with dysfunctional arms, was deciding which of the three sales models the company had tested to pursue as its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from... View Details

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

and public sector responses. The wide-ranging effects of environmental risks, technological advances, infrastructure challenges, business model innovations, and national and international policy shifts are impacting the financial sector... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

providing the funds to help others make or build something, and it helped me recognize that I wanted to be in a company that produced or manufactured something directly. It also showed me the trials as well as the benefits of a small... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

12 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 12

will do so, which results in market inefficiency. Second, the model provides a new argument for why it is usually entrants, not incumbents, who bring major technological innovations to the market. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

patent boosts a start-up’s subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating access to funding from VCs, banks, and public investors. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50292 Monetary Policy and Global... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

strategies Gain insights into the climate risk inherent in investment opportunities Discover how to integrate risks into financial models Think critically about how and where to add value while avoiding “impact washing” Who Will Benefit... View Details

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

biggest customer in the world; on the other hand, 90 out of 100 VCs would say they don't back business models that sell to government," says Weiss. "Though that's starting to change as startups and government are starting to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

“There are many things that entrepreneurs can do to position themselves to bounce back from a failure.” If new funds aren’t forthcoming, the founder will likely put the company up for sale, confronting prospective buyers who’ll play a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

was a bit of an adjustment," he laughs, "but the best thing about this experience is that it's given me a chance to assemble a great group of people and work with them to create what I hope will be an extraordinary fund and firm." Waters... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

business and policy realms. Climate is a space where you need to lean into policies to shape incentives, which can, in turn, create incentives for new business models and growth opportunities. The IRA is a great example of how policy... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Solar at Ameresco Rick Needham HBS MBA 2002, Partner, Energy Sector Lead, TPG / The Rise Fund “Addressing climate change is one of the most critical challenges we face as a global community and will require us to muster all the vision,... View Details

02 Nov 2018
Blog Post

When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS

realize that many founders face self-doubt. It's normal. Just do it: Startup Bootcamp & Rock Summer Fellows HBS also has programming and funding that gets students to stop simply thinking and start doing. Startup Bootcamp is a... View Details

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I... View Details

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

innovator develop his idea before selling it? In the context of selling original movie ideas, I present a model that features the writer's private information on the idea's value, different protection levels associated with different... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

beliefs about Covid we collected in 2020, we build a model based on the psychology of selective memory. When a person thinks about an event,... April 2025 Management Science Gender and Preferences for Performance Feedback By: Katherine... View Details

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