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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
decision score. This allows us to observe the local effect of samples in which we drop the best recipients and the worst non-recipients. Our results suggest that while receiving the grant does bring an injection of funding that alleviates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
you had been named to the 2019 "30 Under 30?" Akash Pradhan, investor, TPG Capital and TPG Growth: “I woke up to text messages congratulating me from friends on the East Coast.” Kiran Gandhi, musician, entrepreneur: “I was View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
going to have some very disappointed customers on Valentine's Day, so we decided to offer the best customer service ever. We called every single customer and explained that our reshipment would be late. We sent a follow-up letter of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
customers on Valentine's Day, so we decided to offer the best customer service ever. We called every single customer and explained that our reshipment would be late. We sent a follow-up letter of apology from me and included a discount... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
emerged from bankruptcy. “I did the quick calculation that you could buy and control all the US (gun) capacity for about $2 billion,” he said. His colleague sitting nearby, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, chimed in. “As the owner, you could do... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
importantly, mindset. Photography firms like Nikon, Canon, or Kodak, coming into this new arena, think about it very differently than Sony or another consumer electronics firm or HP or Intel as computer industry firms. So given the biases that arise from their history,... View Details
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
quickly through each of those channels. One of the best pieces of advice we have gotten is the idea of having a very focused launch approach; not trying to grow too quickly in terms of breadth, but really trying to increase the depth and... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
independent filmmakers and distributors could find a mutually beneficial way to work together, to make it a win-win collaboration,” says Pullapilly. After some research, Elberse’s students suggested the filmmakers approach Terra Chips as a potential partner, since it... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
Layton and Parag Shah served on the founding board. The business-minded nonprofit has evolved mightily in its short life, shifting focus from individuals’ involvement to company-wide efforts. “Originally we were sending people out to projects and then it was, ‘See you... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
to be better way.’ But you’ve got to buy into the whole philosophy, and most people don’t buy that way.” Still, the nimble little company with big ideas began to attract suitors searching for growing niches... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company to buy and run, move to Atlanta... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings and loans—a simple system of... View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
author as well as corporate director. “While my HBS classmates veered toward management consulting and Wall Street, I took the technology road less traveled. I’ve always followed my favorite quote from management guru Peter Drucker who says: ‘The View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Stobaugh suggests the problem is U.S. dependence on foreign oil; the most promising approaches to achieving a more balanced energy menu, he thought, would be largely through increased energy efficiency and focusing on solar energy as the View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
directors do, but the role of a producer is a little more mysterious. I just wonder if you could talk a little bit about what you do as a producer and why it's so fundamental to producing a successful film. Dan Lin: I think the best way... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
help companies with fundamentally viable businesses become financially stronger and more competitive. The Bankruptcy Code achieves this by giving companies a "safe harbor" while they restructure their liabilities, buying time... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
finally, the right question became, why is competition failing? And that led us to the distinction between zero-sum competition and positive-sum competition, and the central importance of value. Q: Why isn't high quality, value-driven healthcare more expensive? A:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
fatigue syndrome (CFS), which for a long time went undiagnosed; battling CFS for some ten years, she could no longer work and therefore lost her health insurance. Her prescription bills alone were $600 a month, and she sometimes had to choose between View Details
- Web
The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising
good paper and non-fading inks. “Shun the cheap poster and buy the best the lithographer can turn out,” he argued. “The posting costs nearly ten times the cost of the poster—and the expense of posting is... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
of the Class of 1997 (Jennifer Scott Fonstad, David Rosenblatt, and John Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. "We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about writing the... View Details