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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

1982). Originally from Chicago, Judy earned a BS of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Harvard Business School (MBA 1983). She is the managing partner of PagsGroup, where she invests in startup... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

that’s my number one leadership takeaway.” HOME REGION Mexico City, Mexico UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Columbia University PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IGNIA, Home Depot, Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch HBS ACTIVITIES Student... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • News

A Wide Net

Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

confront the bigger decision of whether or not to invest in solar panels to generate electricity for her home. Although pre-disposed to pursue environmentally friendly alternatives, the project entailed significant up-front expenses and... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining
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Alumni Board - Alumni

Volunteer Alumni Board HBS Alumni Board The HBS Alumni Board provides input, expertise, and feedback to the leadership of External Relations and the School. Members are selected from a pool of active volunteers. Log in to learn more and... View Details
  • December 2021 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

Bed Bath & Beyond: The New Strategy to Drive Shareholder Value

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher
At one time, Bed Bath & Beyond was one of the most successful specialty retailers in the United States—its growth and profit margins far exceeded both peer retailers in the home goods market as well as many other discount retailers. But in 2014, its stock price peaked,... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Diversification; Corporate Governance; Leading Change; Performance Evaluation; Valuation; Investment Activism; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • spring 2004
  • Article

Multinationals and Linkages: An Empirical Investigation

By: Laura Alfaro and Andres Rodriguez-Clare
Several recent papers have used plant-level data and panel econometric techniques to carefully explore the existence FDI externalities. One conclusion that emerges from this literature is that it is difficult to find evidence of positive externalities from... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Relationships; Multinational Firms and Management; Brazil; Chile; Venezuela; Mexico
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  • 14 Mar 2007
  • Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three years of trial collapsed when the... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

help-friendly organization has to be actively nurtured, however, because helpfulness among colleagues does not arise automatically: competition, pride, or distrust may get in the way. The trickiness of this management challenge-to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707486 Corporate Venture Capital at Eli Lilly Harvard Business School Case 806-092 Reviews the role of corporate venture capital and its history at Eli Lilly. Also presents a challenging venture View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

joining HBS. Audrey Atencio (MBA 2024, Section G), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Piva Capital Piva is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm ($500mm AUM) investing in visionary entrepreneurs who are solving the world's critical... View Details
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-045 Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox The case describes Blue Harbour Group's investment in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

hoc process at many firms. Most adopt a simple decision rule: look at the best reps, and try to hire more like them. But you'll never have enough stars for all sales positions and, in fact, don't want stars in all jobs. In any organization, some View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

relationships between those who regulate them, serve them, and invest in them. That’s a lot of substance among responses to this month’s column. As Ulrich Nettesheim put it, “It is an excellent time to be reexamining how we currently... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

office branch, and a barbershop, was repurposed several times as faculty and administrative office space before its extensive renovation and rededication as the hub of the School’s entrepreneurial education activities in 2003. Today, the... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

titles such as chief financial officer, chief marketing officer, chief technology officer, and chief human resources officer. “In companies that have more related businesses, it makes sense to have these positions toward the top with the objective of centralizing the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel