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23 Oct 2020
News

Educating the Whole Student

services, all of which are offered tuition free. Liu, now the president and COO of The Primary School, came to the project as an educator; Chan came to it as a pediatrician. Together, they developed three guiding principles, which Liu says sets the school, which is... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains when policies are evaluated in bundled form. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-147.pdf PublicationsAssessing the Cost and Benefits of Brokers: A Preliminary Analysis of the Mutual View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

and a 501(c)(3) called Cure Rare Disease. With the foundation, Horgan is trying to build something radical: A model for personalizing drug development, with the hopes of saving not only his brother but countless others. READ MORE Morrell:... View Details

18 Jul 2018
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Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

came to understand the economic model of schools, and how annual giving enables them to invest in financial aid and innovation,” explains Lien. She began giving annually to the HBS Fund and recently extended... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Charged Up

on such funding will no doubt raise another discussion point,” Vietor says, adding that federal subsidies will expire in 2012. Students will tackle these dilemmas and many others when the case is used in a fall MBA elective, The Energy... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; batteries; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

06 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club

What is Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition? Through ETA (search funds), individuals can acquire an existing business, become its CEO, and build a larger and more successful enterprise. The search fund View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

for"outcome-based" funding — a process based on nonprofits achievingcertain goals. "It comes down to people questioning the system inwhich we've invested hundreds of billions of dollars and asking, 'Is itworking in an... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

01 Sep 2014
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Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

students spend 15 weeks and $5,000 launching a business. Patrick Petitti (MBA 2014), Rob Biederman (MBA 2014), and their teammates started with some zany ideas—manufacturing knitted nose warmers, for instance—before settling on the model... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) - Course Catalog

such as deal structures, incentives, business models and valuation in much greater detail than TEM. Approximately one-third of the cases concern technology-based businesses, though the emphasis is on gaining insights into entrepreneurial... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Flying High

type-rated captain, he occasionally pilots Aero flights in addition to his duties as CFO: “Historically, the most successful models are low-cost airlines; we’re flipping that model on its head.” Aero... View Details

Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation

18 Apr 2011
News

Capitalism Meets Conservation

market-based model you can attract vast amounts of capital to sectors that were historically funded by the government and/or NGO sectors. What we’re doing with conservation capitalism is parallel with that.... View Details

Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

current profitable business model exists (as distinct from many VC-backed developmental businesses), and frequently the businesses are of a scale that they can be acquired and owned by individuals instead of institutions or families. The... View Details

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

professionals. New roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined in advance, and teamwork models that include factors common in successful redesigns such as leadership, shared objectives, and training should be promoted. The focus... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2015
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First Look Tuesday

monetary effect of athletic success to many academic institutions in the United States. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49494 Forthcoming IMF Economic Review An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

(in a similar range of roles) that try to maintain a similar, nimble operating model as a startup. Those who are interested in investing in startups. The class focus is on pre-product-market fit technology-based ventures in a range of... View Details

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Providing Scholarships for Impact on a Sector | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Providing Scholarships for Impact on a Sector In debating how to approach its support of nonprofit leaders to attend HBS executive education programs, the Harvard Club of Australia–Victoria decided the best strategy was to make an impact in one sector. Since 2001, the... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

that has already garnered $16 million in funding to link shipping companies with suppliers via the Internet. More than one hundred teams involving over three hundred students initially entered the competition. Some 95 percent of the... View Details

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Illinois has serious financial issues, Chicagoland has far more vitality, economic activity, and interaction between downtown and the suburbs than Detroit. In terms of basic infrastructure, (water, bridges, and roads, for example), cities and states have often proved... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds over the last year. On the public side, I think ESG will become... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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