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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sovereign lands on the ocean floor — at least the size of California and rich in resources — to add to the territory of the United States. In fact, after acceding to the treaty, and completing our mapping of the coastal United States, we... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
graduating from Harvard Business School, Ronnie Cohen made a smooth transition to the high-powered world of McKinsey & Company. Thus, it came as a surprise to his colleagues when he decided to depart two years later to cofound a firm that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years after college, the View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
driving the M&A; boom of the 1990s is companies' need - in response to today's highly competitive global economy - for both speed and brawn. Firms must be imposing enough in terms of size and resources to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
where people want to buy their cars,” Thomke says. “The companies can’t simply restructure their way out of their difficulties.” Thomke, an authority on the management of technology and product innovation, senses that “the culture within American View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
electrified, both because of the greenhouse-gas issue and economics. “Here’s an interesting piece of data: The size of the storage market for transportation is potentially 10 times the size of the storage... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
executive of the Rockefeller family’s global investment company. Intent on narrowing his international focus and extending his impact, Barry founded Zephyr Management in 1994. The firm invests in small and medium- View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market. While in the United States the make-up market is twice the size of the skin care market, in China the skin care market is four times the size of the make-up market. The huge Asian skin care market is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
predictable date for its demand. There is certainly a need for more research into vaccine-production technologies and for greater production capacity, and WHO encourages vaccine firms and national governments to invest in such areas. How... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
wrote about it with such insight and verve, his name will be forever linked to the idea. Beginning in the late 1920s Schumpeter made it clear that entrepreneurship could occur within large and medium-sized firms as well as in small ones,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
the truth is that women-led enterprises grow more slowly and remain much smaller than those created by men. In 2000, for instance, American firms owned by women averaged $2.4 million in sales, compared with an average of $12.3 million for... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and micro-VC firms whose relatively small size translates into a willingness to proceed at a pace and scale that are sustainable over time. She has also won a fair bit of... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
a towing company in Alabama, a medical services business in Saudi Arabia, a publishing company in Greece, a drilling firm in Canada, and a New York-based broadcasting company, to name a few. Hayes's talk on the second day of the Reunion,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
prevent them from implementing ideas to improve the way they work: avoiding controversy, poor use of time, reluctance to change, organizational silos, management blockers, incorrect information and bad assumptions, size matters, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the View Details