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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
science, engineering, health, and other fields, Nohria foresees opportunities for HBS faculty to join forces with their University colleagues to create entrepreneurial ventures to help commercialize... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
and Alexis BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-121 Rebeca Minguela hopes to create an arbitrage platform, similar to Rocket Internet, that can bring start-up ideas and opportunities to Spain. However, Blink Booking, her first venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
"Will we make something strong and good and wise out of all the destruction of the past two years?" Koehn is an authority on entrepreneurial leadership and history. Her previous books include Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
Abbott's career imprint could be called a "functional career imprint." Baxter generated a disproportionate number of leaders in the biotechnology industry. During the early 1980s, when the biotech industry was just heating up and View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Local Expressions Author:Geoffrey Jones Abstract This working paper examines the creation of the global natural food and beauty categories before 2000. This is shown to have been a lengthy process of new category creation involving the exercise of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
to the "Arauco: Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?" case. This short case looks at the company in late 2007 after it has decided to invest in a Brazilian joint venture involving forests, saw mills, and a paper mill.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Hatches Harvard Business School Case 809-072 Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether to make new investments. Not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51502 forthcoming Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners By: Wu, Andy Abstract—We study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
angel financing is independent of the level of venture activity and entrepreneur friendliness in the country. However, we find that the development stage and maturity of startups that apply for angel funding (and those that are ultimately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
relationship between green business and governments. The struggles of entrepreneurial pioneers have rarely proved profitable, as they were forced to compete with conventional businesses that ignored negative environmental externalities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Online Video Harvard Business School Case 709-447 In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online distribution venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation (Fox) is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
from other religious groups. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45023 Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners? By: Ewens, Michael, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper investigates whether individual View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
outweighed the PG Ventures offer. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-004 KGFS: A New Approach to Rural Finance No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
interactions. By aggregating previously identified problems in several existing industries, the founders articulated an innovative idea for a new venture in a nascent industry. The seeds of the new venture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
to greater learning in this area, the academics generally cited shortage of faculty who understood health care and could teach business skills; lack of case materials and familiarity with case method teaching and field studies; and inadequate mechanisms for involvement... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
715-002 Indonesia: Growth and Stability in a Global Economy No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-004 NuScale Power-the Future of Small Modular Reactors NuScale Power, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
entrepreneurship. We label studies by the type of entrepreneurial population studied (e.g., Main Street vs. those backed by venture capital) to identify interesting and irreducible parts of this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne