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    Yuval Spiegler

    Yuval is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior and Sociology at HBS. He studies why are similar organizations dissimilarly diverse, especially focusing on extra-organizational dimensions that shape labor market racial and gender segregation. Yuval uses... View Details
    • August 2023
    • Case

    Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

    By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek
    Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Customers; Nationality; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Employment; Human Capital; Europe; United Kingdom; United States
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    • March 2003 (Revised November 2003)
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    Resourcery, Ltd.

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Feyi A. Boroffice
    Recounts the story of how a successful Nigerian entrepreneur has expanded his systems integration/networking business. He now faces the problem of raising growth capital in a developing country. View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Growth Management; Expansion; Race; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • January 2017 (Revised November 2018)
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    Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil

    By: Julie Battilana, Marissa Kimsey, Falko Paetzold and Priscilla Zogbi
    Vox Capital was the first certified impact investing fund in Brazil. Founded in 2009, it provides early-stage capital for companies offering innovative and scalable solutions to enhance the lives of low-income Brazilians, while aiming to simultaneously generate... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Performance Measurement; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise; Brazil
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      Jeffrey J. Bussgang

      General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

      Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

      Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

      • 08 Nov 2024
      • Op-Ed

      How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

      African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
      Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
      • March 1996
      • Case

      Erox Corporation: Leverage Marketing

      Erox Corp. is a biotechnology start-up that creates products containing synthetic human pheromones. It was founded in 1989, went public in 1993, and brought in a turnaround team in 1994. Sales ramped from $110,000 in 1993 to over $1 million in 1994, with prospects for... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing Communications; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry
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      • 10 Apr 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: April 10, 2007

      165-180 Abstract What types of human and social capital identify the emergence of leaders of open innovation communities? Consistent with the norms of an engineering culture, we find that future leaders must... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • July 2013 (Revised May 2024)
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      BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time

      By: Srikant Datar and Saloni Chaturvedi
      Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known... View Details
      Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Condition; Health Care and Treatment; Diversity; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; India; Asia
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      • 22 Jan 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

      professionals attracted to these firms want to practice their expertise, not necessarily to become managers and deal with human challenges. They have different goals and motives. Q: What is the integrated leadership model you have... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services

        Andre F. Perold

        André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences,  lower middle market private... View Details

        Keywords: banking; financial services; information; investment banking industry; professional services
        • November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
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        NovoCure Ltd.

        By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
        Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry
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        Jenny is broadly interested in interpretable machine learning (ML), identity and inequality, and improving existing methods used to answer social and policy-relevant questions. Her recent projects have focused on developing tools that explore how LLMs are reshaping... View Details

          Josh Lerner

          Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

          Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
          • 17 May 2012
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?

          Keywords: by Michael Ewens & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services
          • April–May 2021
          • Article

          Labor Mobility and Antitakeover Provisions

          By: Aiyesha Dey and Joshua White
          How do firms protect their human capital? We test whether firms facing an increased threat of being acquired strengthen their antitakeover provisions (ATPs) in order to bond with their employees. We use the adoption of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine (IDD) by U.S.... View Details
          Keywords: Labor Mobility; Antitakeover Provisions; Trade Secrets; Implicit Contracting; Employee Bonding; Corporate Governance; Acquisition; Human Capital; Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Safety
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          • 08 Sep 2010
          • First Look

          First Look: September 8, 2010

          under-invest in those firm attributes that may enhance long-term performance, such as human capital and technology (proxied by intangible assets in our paper). Indeed we do find evidence that ethnically... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
          • Research Summary

          Current Research Interests

        • Employment Contract, Collective Bargaining, and Human Capital Investment
        • American Welfare Capitalists, 1910-1940
        • Political Economy of New Deal Labor Legislation
        • A Comparative Historical Analysis of Wartime Labor Regulation during W.W.II in the U.S.... View Details
          • April 2003
          • Case

          Captain Crisis in the United States Army, The

          From 1989 to 1999, the Army watched as captain attrition rose from a planned and acceptable 6.7% to a staggering 10.6%. At the beginning of a new century, the Army leadership is concerned that current and projected staffing levels for junior officers are insufficient... View Details
          Keywords: Human Capital; Retention; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry
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          • 2014
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          The Growth and Limits of Arbitrage: Evidence from Short Interest

          By: Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam
          We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short interest, we document that the amount of capital devoted to value... View Details
          Keywords: Strategy; Financial Instruments; Capital Markets; Investment
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