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- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
Brian Scudamore was uncomfortable with the idea of taking money from relatives, even though at one point his startup was about to fold for lack of cash. He explained, "My dad could have given me the money. However, I didn't want him... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
when I was three years old. Not wanting me to struggle with them as they built a new life in a foreign land, they left me with my grandparents back home. Even though my mom had an engineering degree and years of work experience under her belt, she washed dishes and... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
more and will bring more people into the fold because of this. The calculation and the math, frankly, is, which one is bigger? That's how you sort of assess the risk. Kenny: Another question down front here. Speaker 3: Would you hazard a... View Details
Henry W. Gadsden
Gadsden presided over a massive period of growth for Merck & Company. A strong believer in the power of research and development, he increased spending in this area four fold during his tenure – from $32 million to $125 million. Under... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
James H. Rand, Jr.
Rand grew his father’s small ledger company into a multinational conglomerate that made a wide array of office products, including filing systems, typewriters and adding machines. Under Rand’s leadership, company sales grew 100 fold from... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Portrait Project
Yanni Liu
I am what I eat. I am what I feed. I will nourish the world against people's hunger, planet's thirst, and profit's desire. I will write my own definition of success and fold it into a home-baked fortune cookie. I will leave behind carbon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
in Massachusetts that manufactures high-quality folding bicycles. The case illustrates the difficulties faced by a new company introducing innovation within an established industry. “Montague’s creative insight was to develop a View Details
- Portrait Project
Danna Wei
filling to dough to the number of folds Because what my mother passed along had worked so well, only when it was finally disproved did I realize that I accepted her "truth" without challenging it, without earning the right to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shirley Cardona
areas, but she wasn't willing to compromise on our laundry. She added a personal touch to each article of clothing; her work-worn hands, red from the dryer heat, painstakingly ironed each wrinkle and neatly folded every garment. As a... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
for the course, including one on the Montague Corporation, a company based in Massachusetts that manufactures high-quality folding bicycles. The case illustrates the difficulties faced by a new company introducing innovation within an... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sarah Assayag
constraints that bind grown-ups' imaginations. Keep at all times the ability to be inspired as much from the spirit within as the lights around you, letting the pen pause to ask questions, and the paper fold to absorb the wonders of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Time to Trek
group of people. It’s a way to bring more people into the fold and hopefully improve the company.” If you or your company would like to participate in a trek, contact Sarah Wimmer at swimmer@mba2005.hbs.edu. View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine
Growing up in Washington, DC, David Bradley (MBA 1977) aspired to be a politician, not a businessman, but figured he should have a strong financial base in order to launch his political career. In 1979, he formed the Research Counsel of Washington with a few card... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates
Photos by Stuart Cahill On a hot, steamy afternoon in late May that saw most of the audience forsake the folding chairs on Baker Lawn for the shade of its tree-lined margins, some 900 HBS students celebrated Class Day with a special... View Details
Keywords: Graduation
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HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications - Research Computing Services
the Rules Wizard popup, you need to specify the destination folder for the emails in this rule. Go to: Step 2: Edit the rule description. Click on the underlined word specified to identify an existing fold or to create a new one. You can... View Details
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Danelle Radney
community relations position she really wanted. So by the time Danelle folded her College Pro franchise, she had accomplished the unexpected. “It was the hardest thing I had ever done,” Danelle says. “But by the end of the summer, I had... View Details
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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
How to assess the risks and returns in private investments and real estate portfolios 3. How to perform relative value analyses of differing investments 4. How to manage troubled investments (when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em) 5. How... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
My Pandemic Year
with using our mobile phones, folding our laundry, reading our cases for the next classes, or preparing a meal while still tuning into Zoom classes. Video Embed We also mastered the art of looking engaged on screen even when we were not.... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
of violations, as well as the dollar amount of penalties, at firms’ local facilities after a local newspaper folded and compared those figures with a control group in an area where a newspaper continued to publish. The spikes in... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
Transformed by a large, canopied stage and row after row of folding chairs, Baker Beach took on the guise of its more stately alter ego, Baker Lawn, and served as an ideal venue for the Class of 2001's Class Day and graduation ceremonies... View Details