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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
"platform") around the rapidly expanding online video industry. Simultaneously, CEO Jeremy Allaire was completing a major funding round that would enable the company to make strategic investments in some or all of several... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
working for an organization that is contributing value to the world, that society benefits from the mission and strategy of their organization and its products and services. They need to understand how the success of the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
making possible the American dream for every child. NLNS is dedicated to leaders with dreams of creating and leading schools that can prepare all of our students for the 21st century. Platform Learning Matthew (Mugo) Fields, MBA 2002 Platform Learning’s View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
experience at GE can teach large organizations about overcoming barriers to innovation. READ MORE Dan Morrell: What made you want to stay at GE and make your career there? What was enticing about the mission and the work? Jeff Immelt:... View Details
- Web
Commencement 2018 Address | About
the first in his family to get an engineering degree, to go abroad for additional graduate business education, and then return to India to pursue a business career. His enterprising character enabled him to eventually become CEO of a company whose View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
work, nonprofit fellows contribute to and witness transformations in the lives of others — with lasting effects on their own lives as well. One day last August in rural Kharagpur, India, Neera Nundy (HBS '02) accompanied a middle-aged bakery worker named Suchismita on... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
take many years to design and build and then have decades of useful life. This means that it needs to understand now what sorts of missions it may be required to perform in 10, 20, or 30 years and what assets and infrastructure it will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
Harvard faculty and administrators, life science investors, and life science entrepreneurs. “These are people who truly understand the mission of the Life Lab from a pedagogical standpoint and also those who understand the complexities to... View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2020
incentive systems for the loan officers and measured how much more helpful they were to borrowers. We found some substantial increases. Natalia Rigol: Once you change the institutional incentives to align them more with the mission of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
are an entrepreneur who is selling ideas that have been tested through rigorous research,” says Akinola, who teaches the first-year MBA course on leadership development. “To me, it’s just as stressful as being in a corporation, but the great thing is that I’m my own... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
“Our mission at Social Finance is to mobilize capital to drive social progress. We are pioneering new impact investing approaches, like the Social Impact Bond, to unite uncommon partners around common... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that would attract and motivate a diverse global community. The challenge, of course, was to create a community of shared values and purpose from a much more diverse set of people ethnically, religiously, nationally, and so on. The leaders did this by developing an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
success in a broad array of projects, such as managing 10 brands and 26 shops across different categories, he also felt the need to reinvent his core confectionery business since not all stores of all his brands were thriving as he had wished. Equally central to the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
insurgent's clear mission and purpose, an unambiguous owner mindset, and a relentless obsession with the front line) can resolve the predictable crises of growth. Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Web Sites by Martin L. Abbott... View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
http://www.andrewtobias.com/ (stock picks, investment & green strategies, social & political commentary, cool Web sites; archived since Dec. 1996) MBA 1974B Rick Walleigh, Walleighs’ Weekly Words, http://walleigh.com/Blog/ (travels;... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist
find solutions to the water crisis. Tom named his company Burnt Island Ventures. “I try to be a tourist agent,” he laughed. The Burnt Islands, three small islands on the west coast of Scotland, his father’s homeland, have been his favorite view since childhood. But his... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
read in this special Bulletin issue, our alumni have founded or helped to transform many important companies over the years. They have shaped the evolution of industries as diverse as cable television, microcomputer software, publishing, specialty retailing, View Details