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Investor - Entrepreneurship

Student Journey Investor Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum FALL Attend the Rock/CPD Career Panels to learn about careers in VC. Learn about the role of a VC/Investor and recruiting approach. Meet with: Rock Venture Capital Partners Career and Professional View Details

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Tsedal Neeley | About

Tsedal Neeley Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research Unit Organizational Behavior Contact Phone Bio Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty View Details

07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

of current and future teachers, calls for values-motivated screening or divestment always posed an inherently complex challenge. Having spearheaded the development of Principles for a Responsible Civilian Firearm Industry released on... View Details

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Global Activities 2020

Fellowship (GO: Africa), are working to encourage and scale businesses on the continent from their base in Ghana. Asia Pacific HBS Engagement Across the Region The Harvard Shanghai Center and HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong... View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

of HBS to global startup regions. FALL Is becoming a joiner right for me: Attend Rock/CPD career panel What does a startup job search look like? Meet with a Career and Professional Development (CPD) entrepreneurship coach (login required)... View Details

20 Apr 2020
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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

“no contact” delivery protocol. With our system, volunteers get to decide when and how much to help. Additionally, we have decided to build a matching algorithm to pair volunteers to requests. We looked around at some of the different volunteer efforts emerging and... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Operations Management) Suraj Srinivasan Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Strategy Execution Robert Simons Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Tatiana Sandino Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details

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Enrico Ferrari

technology, he spent nights and weekends learning how to code; soon, he started developing his own algorithms to scale and automate digital marketing campaigns, a skill he applied to successfully expand a... View Details

Keywords: Tech

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

innovators who are creating and implementing new solutions to these daunting challenges. The only barrier to empowering many of these entrepreneurs is the availability of funding to ensure that their ideas can get off the ground and eventually View Details

Keywords: podcasts

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

Developing skill as an effective acquirer is an important muscle for scaling companies and now is a great time to test out that skill. 6. Consider financing There is a ton of money out there looking for... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

into investment analysis. Highlights Climate-Related Risks and Responses Generate Capital Show Hide Details Concepts The Era of Climate Change Asset Allocation Amid the Climate Crisis Funding and Scaling Up Climate Innovation Featured... View Details

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

mechanical population, together with a steady remodeling of social and political habits, ideas, and institutions to fit the new scale and suit the new conditions.” 37 The rise of modern American capitalism, enabled by the expansion of the... View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

markets and business on a global scale and prepare for the political, social, and economic factors driving change. 4 weeks 6-8 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion... View Details

10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2397317 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-042 Simplot Plant Sciences: Designing a Better Potato Privately held Simplot has developed a new... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

02 Aug 2020
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Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

seed the concept more broadly.” But Ana Frony reminded us to “never forget that even trainees must have some intuition and poetry to develop a hypotheses and design an experiment.” Nick C raised the question of just how far the practice... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

people to lay off. If, on the other hand, you acquire a company because it is developing a hot technology, your challenge is to hold on to the acquisition's best engineers. These two scenarios require the acquiring company to engage in... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the emerging global economy.... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

14 Jun 2010
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The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

with a focused strategy concentrates its resources on a specific task or intervention—such as the homeless shelter that focuses on providing overnight beds and a warm meal, or an ambulance service that focuses on getting patients to the emergency room quickly. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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