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- 04 Jun 2013
- News
4 Ways Big Business Can Be a Keystone in Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
Harvard Business School; Laidler-Kylander (HBS MBA '92) is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Manda Salls: Any organization—profit or nonprofit— faces challenges when it goes global. What are... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- April 2022
- Case
Pear Venture Capital
By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
Keith Bender, Principal at Pear Venture Capital, is working over the weekend to prepare for a Monday morning investment meeting. He has three startup pitch decks in front of him, and he must choose one to recommend at the meeting. He finds that each company has its... View Details
Keywords: Seed Investing; Seed Financing; Startup; Decision Choices and Conditions; Presentations; Business Startups; Investment; Venture Capital; United States
Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Pear Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Case 822-097, April 2022.
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
OpenInvest
By: Shawn Cole, Boris Vallée and Nicole Tempest Keller
Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolios to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Investment Portfolio; Customization and Personalization; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
Cole, Shawn, Boris Vallée, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "OpenInvest." Harvard Business School Case 218-064, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- Article
Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business
By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
When Google bought Nest, a maker of digital thermostats, for $3.2 billion just a few months ago, it was a clear indication that digital transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array of... View Details
Keywords: Digital Innovation; Digitization; Industrial Internet; Technological Innovation; Production; Competitive Strategy; Engineering; Aerospace Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 11 (November 2014): 90–99.
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
evaluated the potential impact of a new DNA regenerative technology on hearing loss research. “My experience here has been wonderful,” she concludes. After graduation, she plans to work in consulting for a few years to continue honing her... View Details
- Web
Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment
Strategy and Business Operations, Pattern Ag David Chan HBS MBA 2018, Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder, FarmTogether “I’m committed to solving climate change by setting high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- October 2021
- Article
Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry
By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen
We study a novel, low-cost approach to aggregating judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs... View Details
Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Quality Uncertainty; Creative Industry; Project Evaluation And Selection; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Luo, Hong, Jeffrey T. Macher, and Michael Wahlen. "Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry." Management Science 67, no. 10 (October 2021): 6358–6377.
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
Careers US Business Immigration Overview Careers US Business Immigration Overview Looking to work in the United States? We know that it can often be tricky to figure out the requirements needed to secure... View Details
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HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research
businesses on open source software, code that would cost firms $8.8 trillion to create from scratch if it weren't freely available. Research by Frank Nagle and colleagues puts a value on an economic necessity that will require View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
Davis started considering more flexible work options in 2018, she and Cheney discussed where and how she might be able to work with Prokanga to address the social impact space. “It never occurred to me to work in human capital during View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
iPhoto With billions of dollars spent on the development of precision medicine and related cancer research over the last decade, a recent partnership seeks a new way to bring these treatments to patients more quickly: through a better View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- News
The Business of Social Justice
become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” As COO, Brooks oversees strategic planning, operations, and finances, as well as the evaluation of programs to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech... View Details
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand the key financial levers that drive financial performance Discover how and why finance is concerned with cash flow versus profits and why that matters for your business and budget Identify... View Details
- 2007
- Chapter
Postcards from the Edge: A Review of the Business and Environment Literature
By: Andrew A. King and Luca Berchicci
Environmental issues, while of growing interest, have been outside the main focus of business scholarship. This position on the periphery may have been a good thing. It allowed scholars of business and the environment to consider unusual theories and evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Research; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Advantage
King, Andrew A., and Luca Berchicci. "Postcards from the Edge: A Review of the Business and Environment Literature." In The Academy of Management Annals, edited by James P. Walsh and Arthur P. Brief, 513–547. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
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Teaching Resources - Business History
and Latin America also offer successful business history courses, few can match the extensive and lengthy investment made in history by Harvard Business School. Indeed, many of... View Details
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What are the Industries Attracting Private Equity Investments in Latin America?: Evidence from Twenty-five Countries from 2001 to 2008
By: Roberto Charvel
This article shows what are the industries attracting private equity investments in Latin America over time. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurial Finance; Alternative Assets; Emerging Market; Business Ventures; Economics; Finance; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
Charvel, Roberto. "What are the Industries Attracting Private Equity Investments in Latin America? Evidence from Twenty-five Countries from 2001 to 2008." Venture Equity Latin America 8, no. 18 (November 15, 2009).
- September 2007
- Article
Assessing the Performance of Business Unit Managers
By: J. Bouwens and Laurence van Lent
Using a sample of 140 managers, we investigate the use of various performance metrics in determining the periodic assessment, bonus decisions, and career paths of business unit managers. We show that the weight on accounting return measures is associated with the... View Details
Bouwens, J., and Laurence van Lent. "Assessing the Performance of Business Unit Managers." Journal of Accounting Research 45, no. 4 (September 2007): 667–697.