Opportunity Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 May 2020
Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

students Taniel: Before coming to HBS/HKS I wish I knew more about the vast amount of funding opportunities jointees receive from both schools for summers spent working in non-profit organizations, the... View Details

09 Jun 2015
News

Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

investor and CEO of Veritas Investments to his HBS experience. “I saw opportunities for growing the business but wasn’t sure how to capitalize on them,” says Au who purchased his first building in Silicon Valley in 1996 and later founded... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Bridging the ESG Data Gap

Chicago-based company with a half-dozen employees and venture investment from institutional funds and strategic angel investors. Murday says her post-HBS involvement with two alumni-focused Harvard Innovation Labs programs—Launch Lab X... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Fall 2020
Article

Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details

Keywords: Art; Negotiation; Arts

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11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

pioneered new industries, from jute manufacture in India and cotton textile manufacture in China, to the oil industry in California."The improvements in transport and communications from the 1870s resulted in opportunities and... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

27 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

opportunity enable the rise of new entrants or reinforce the position of incumbents? Research on this classic topic often ignores the high costs of entry seen in some industries. We offer a novel approach to this question in the context... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the world witnessed an explosion in capital flows at the global level. Gross foreign assets and liabilities... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 10

opportunities for changes in corporate culture to encourage sustainability. While the U.S. chemical industry remained defensive and focused on legal compliance, there was a greater proactivity among the German firms. This paper stresses... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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McCulloch Hall | About

worldwide to achieve that distinction at the time. More than 80 percent of MBA students live on campus, taking advantage of the proximity to classes, extensive academic and social resources, and opportunities for peer learning. About the... View Details

23 May 2018
News

Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

attended a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration hosted by Walmart, on whose board she sits. While all the remarks were powerful, it was an essay written by an 11-year-old boy that stuck with Harris. “Here’s this kid telling us that we have the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

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 Harvard Business Publishing... View Details

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Digital Innovation - Alumni

giving to the HBS Fund . As our annual fund, the HBS Fund supports core priorities and new initiatives, and donors have the option to direct their gift specifically to digital innovation . To learn about... View Details

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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Lawrence Summers HKS Selected HBS Cases on Financial Stability Bidding for Finansbank By: David S. Scharfstein & Esel Çekin FEB 2016 | Harvard Business School Case 216-040 View Details Novantas and Deposit Funding at First Regional Bank... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

and dilemmas. During discussions about the gaming platform Roblox, AI chatbot Replika AI, and crypto-native venture capital fund Electric Capital, students are exposed to the challenges of the rapidly evolving tech landscape, as well as... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

more effective teachers. “There’s a big opportunity to really upscale and certify them,” Gupta says. At the same time, Rocket provides educational tools and content that teachers can share with parents to reinforce foundational skills at... View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

that helped level social divides by providing equal access to useful skills and cultural or educational opportunities to everyone in a city. The leader who envisioned and built this into a leading site with 50 million regular users turned... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

City–based startup, offering investors equity in individual CRE properties that its investment team had sourced and vetted. Traditional private equity (PE) funds required investors in CRE equity to accept an entire portfolio of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

seek holders of such doctorates from elsewhere. Deans championed internationalization of the School, encouraging faculty to spend time abroad, providing funds for overseas research, and establishing “centers” abroad. Many new faculty were... View Details

30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

gender equity at HBS and beyond. We have an incredible list of sponsors who, through their funding and support, help us deliver extensive programming for all members. Some of the highlights of our club include: Annual Women Business... View Details

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

resources. We wanted to bring opportunity to people who are not within the Harvard community—if you’re here, the door is already open in so many ways. How do we open up some of these resources to black entrepreneurs across the country? We... View Details

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