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- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
venture capital, we've seen that there is a definite correlation between investing in more women later stage if there are more female partners involved. Flint: What about raising capital as a female-focused or diversity-focused fund: Are... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
players, and the external environment. He describes how the game works and why it works the way it does. Poorvu also explains the five phases of direct investment: concept to commitment, commitment to closing, development, operations, and harvesting. He concludes by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
outsourcing business may be of this nature. Many examples in your book come from outside the United States. Are other nations more advanced in using outsourcing for transformation? The United Kingdom is definitely ahead in using... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
climate change policies? “My theory is that audiences are now self-selecting in what they watch, and we need a broader spectrum of stories, choice of protagonists, and distribution strategies that are purposely chosen based on their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
especially in those critical first few years after HBS. The course will cover a variety of topics, including: Career navigation. How to establish a path through the transitions and tradeoffs as they move toward their personal definition... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
wrestled with these issues for the past 30 years, I have come to believe that achieving your aspirations lies not in "being a success" but in working to achieve your unique potential. This requires you to create your own definition of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Nurturing students who can think outside of the box
says. “That’s different from the traditional definition of top students. People who can think outside of the box need to have a lot of courage.” Xing Wei College was recently accredited by the Ministry of Education as the first Chinese... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
HBS. And I’ll never forget the day my marketing professor, Steve Starr, asked me to open the Acme Paint Company case. I was one of three Black students in my section and definitely wanted to be in the mix. I’m not a shy, shrinking violet,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
managers to prevent harm to society. They begin with a controversial definition of managerial responsibility. Managers must first act to protect individuals, employees, and society from the mistakes made by managerial decisions and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
works on strategy issues, is point person for global initiatives and acquisitions, and oversees day-to-day operations across all of the group’s functions and its multiple brands, which reap $9 billion in annual sales and include Bath &... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
transactions—the metrics Karavites tracks most closely—are up at all his locations. Formulating a turnaround strategy required Kempczinski and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
getting students to think across disciplines and functions. “The front-end perspectives courses and the capstone Synthesis Seminar definitely focus on the integrated nature of management issues,” Joss explains in an e-mail. “But most of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
MBA students interview consumers in Seoul, Korea, to help inform the marketing strategies they developed for Orion Snack International. The project was the culmination of a required first-year course designed to develop students’ global... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
Whether or not game theory has applications for business strategy remains unclear - to date, empirical studies have been too limited to yield any definitive conclusions. In Games Businesses Play: Cases and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
definition you use. Since the owner’s looking for a loan from the bank, he’s obliged to accept the bank’s definition even though it’s different from his definition.” Professor Vancil watched me while I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
about how venture capitalists fund companies, they usually do it in stages, giving a little money to start, waiting for it to percolate, and maybe doing a midcourse correction. For the public sector to do that, politicians have to accept that they may need to rethink... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
enhances business performance as well. "Community involvement can contribute to the definition and development of a company's organizational culture, which is an important determinant of corporate performance," he observes. "Volunteering... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
careful allocation of risks and returns among the various parties so that they have incentives to manage efficiently. Also important is the possibility for adjustments in risk allocation and responsibilities should the project’s View Details
- 26 Oct 2011
- News
On Top, Down Under
spectrum of companies. It certainly helped widen my view of business, and it was a great learning environment. It definitely took me out of my comfort zone.” Asked to elaborate on these comments, Fookes explained, “One of the key... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
levies on pollution, which is by definition an indicator of waste and inefficiency. Gore, who has long argued that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to global warming, said that solving the environmental crisis represents “the greatest... View Details