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- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
and England (Joseph Ramsey). Several respondents pointed out, however, that the benefits of deregulation are less obvious to consumers than its failures. The latter include short-term dislocations of demand-and-supply patterns and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement
Ugo-beke Author MBA Students tag Health Care Innovation Health Care at HBS Growing up in Nigeria, I saw firsthand how gaps in healthcare infrastructure could leave entire communities vulnerable. When I moved to England at 10, I expected... View Details
- September 2019
- Case
Dementia Discovery Fund
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy Giusti and Sarah Gulick
The case is set in March 2019, and tells the story of the founding of the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF). The idea for the fund began in 2015, when then-Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the importance of making breakthroughs in dementia research, and pledged... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Mission and Purpose; Recruitment; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Financial Services Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; London; England
Hamermesh, Richard G., Kathy Giusti, and Sarah Gulick. "Dementia Discovery Fund." Harvard Business School Case 820-045, September 2019.
- August 2004
- Teaching Note
Accel Partners' European Launch (TN)
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note to (9-803-021). View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, Kendall is dedicated to increasing the production and consumption of local, sustainably produced food. He was... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Arthur ("Dick") Watson and his brother Tom, the head of IBM; and several members of Cleveland's Corning clan, whose assets came from, among other things, oil and banking. In 1966, with the addition of the Ayer-Rice Trust, which oversaw the fortunes of two old New View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
born in the first industrial revolution in England has survived for two hundred years. Another case, on Southland Corporation and Seven-Eleven Japan, examines retailing in the third industrial revolution in two very different... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Watch their pitch. Midwest/Central U.S. Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing Watch their pitch. New England Marco Bitran, MBA '03 AI... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
Why were 253 people from all walks of life and parts of the globe pursuing academic work in teams in the Shad Hall fitness center in the middle of January? They were members of the HBS Class of 1997 January cohort. Arriving in the midst of one of the worst New View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: Walden Local Meat In 2018, Walden Local Meat CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) had just brought sectionmate Philip Giampietro on board as CFO of the meat-share... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
England and had studied for a year at St. Paul's, a prep school in New Hampshire, before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1954. In a system where career advancement could often be hindered by assignments outside Japan, he... View Details
- June 2015
- Case
Silicon Fen
By: Tom Nicholas, David Chambers and Matthew G. Preble
Keywords: Information Technology; Industry Clusters; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Technology Industry; England; California
Nicholas, Tom, David Chambers, and Matthew G. Preble. "Silicon Fen." Harvard Business School Case 815-082, June 2015.
- February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Accel Partners' European Launch
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Josh Lerner
In spring 2001, with the venture market crashing all around, the London office of Accel Partners, a major west coast venture capital firm, needs to make a decision about investing in an Irish software company. As the first investment of the new European operation, the... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Venture Capital; Global Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Expansion; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; London; United States
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Josh Lerner. "Accel Partners' European Launch." Harvard Business School Case 803-021, February 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
seven regional "Baby Bells"), she remained with the New England Telephone Company, which later merged with the New York Telephone Company to form NYNEX Corporation. Gaining a broad understanding of the business through a multitude of jobs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
19th-century New England textile mill records, volumes of R.G. Dun & Co. credit reports, business archives from Lehman Brothers and Polaroid, and HBS historical records. (Read about all the collections.) Not everything in the historical... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 26 Mar 2013
- News
Facebook's other first lady
- March 2022
- Teaching Note
Farfetch: Digital Transformation for Luxury Brands
By: Jill Avery and Sunil Gupta
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-051. Farfetch, a global luxury technology platform and digital marketplace had been surfing the wave of digital transformation in the luxury fashion industry since 2008. While the company’s stock price and market valuation had... View Details
- March 2001 (Revised March 2006)
- Teaching Note
Dogfight Over Europe: Ryanair (A), (B), and (C) TN
By: Jan W. Rivkin
Teaching Note for (9-700-115), (9-700-116), and (9-700-117). View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Raising the bar to provide quality education
After cofounding a nonprofit to establish academy schools for low-income children in London, England, Jennifer Moses (MBA 1989) is working to provide quality education for disadvantaged children in California. She and her husband, Ron Beller, cofounded the nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rolling Thunder
HEAVY METAL: Stephen Julius and family aboard an Indian motorcycle, a classic brand that in late 2007 will once again hit the streets. PHOTO COURTESY STEPHEN JULIUS Vrrooom that’s the sound of the classic Indian brand motorcycle, revving up for a comeback. Founded in... View Details