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Jennifer Lum

Jennifer Lum is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Biospring Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in Life Sciences Technology. She is an accomplished investor and entrepreneur. Jennifer has co-founded several companies and has... View Details

24 Jan 2025
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The Network Effect

Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details

15 Apr 2022
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Funding His Purpose

investments to both nonprofit and for-profit social impact companies. It also offers philanthropic fund management, and it partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to provide additional services to... View Details

14 Jan 2022
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Power Play

equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its investors and executive teams—a luxury afforded by its independence from other firms evaluating the opportunity. SER focuses... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency

Professor Zoë Cullen finds that the long-term effects of pay transparency reverse the winners and losers, with firms benefiting significantly more than workers. “This was one of the most counterintuitive findings I have ever discovered,”... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2008
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Faculty Books

democracy would fail and with them, society. Managing Network Resources: Alliances, Affiliations, and Other Relational Assets by Ranjay Gulati (Oxford University Press) These days firms are increasingly em-bedded in networks of alliances... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
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Recognizing Volunteers and Donors

contributed more than $13 million to HBS in honor of its 25th Reunion. Hong Kong–based Alice Au, an international cochair for the class, helped garner support by reaching out to alumni in the region. A senior executive with the international search View Details

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

economy of the '90s brought a golden age and aura to VC firms in the United States. In 1999, venture capitalists controlled more than $46 billion, with skyrocketing returns to match the risks of their early-stage investments. Europe,... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental problems, however, because environmental problems often transcend firm... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2020 (Revised July 2020)
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MassChallenge

By: Rembrand Koning, Andy Wu, Nataliya Langburd Wright and Tarun Khanna

The case explores the strategic decision of global non-profit startup accelerator MassChallenge on whether to pursue a for-profit spinoff, discussing: (1) the costs and benefits of this decision, (2) how best to manage the risks of the decision, and (3) alternative... View Details

Keywords: Accelerators; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Startups; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Decision Making; Strategy

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April 2009
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Brummer and the bracNet Investment

By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Michael Pirson and Patricia Mangas

bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested in a first round of funding to connect major cities. Should he invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Investment; Investment Return; Rural Scope; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Internet; Telecommunications Industry; Bangladesh

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2009
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Company Strategy: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart

Keywords: Business Strategy; Business Model; Competitive Advantage; Innovation and Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management

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agency into the second largest advertising firm run by an African-American by securing business from Jewel Foods, Sears, Roebuck and Company, and Alberto-Culver. View Details

Keywords: Services

Estee Lauder

Lauder built one of the most successful and exclusive cosmetic companies in the world. She was the pioneer of the “free sample” strategy, which marked a new era of salesmanship. To retain their aura of exclusivity, her products were sold in Saks Fifth Avenue and in... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

William S. Farish

Farish, who had established himself as one of the leading independent oilmen in Texas, joined with Standard Oil becoming head of the firm in 1937. Farish was one of Standard Oil’s leading authorities on new production concepts and... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

than a few pleasantries and in one case, a softball question that the company knew was coming. "That made us wonder if this was true more generally across firms-that they choreograph conference calls when they don't want to talk about something." “Nearly every View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

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Companies: Executive and board member prior experience

How do I locate companies with current executives or board members that have specific industry experience such as consulting? Use Capital IQ to do a search on PE/VC firms and add criteria that includes key executives and board members... View Details

20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

visualize and communicate a wide range of patient outcomes and cost for three forms of prostate cancer treatment. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51627 Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610038-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610039-PDF-ENG Hiring Professionals in China: A Practitioner's Guide Heidi K. GardnerHarvard Business School Note 411-029 This note outlines how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2006 (Revised May 2009)
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Inverness Medical Innovations - Born Global (A)

Ron Zwanziger has just started his third company, having just sold the last one for $1.3 billion to Johnson & Johnson. As part of the deal with J&J, certain assets were transferred to the new company, Inverness Medical Innovations, which, at the time of its creation,... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Waltham

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