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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

overcome them in order to drive impact at scale. For the full listing, click here . HBS EC Course - Public Entrepreneurship - Mitchell Weiss This course is designed for... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the information necessary to make good... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

July 1997
Teaching Note

Jupiter Management Company, Teaching Note

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note for (9-292-107). View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Services Industry

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Wilder House | About

Wilder House Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of William P. Wilder (1922–2019), a prominent Canadian executive, and his support of the School. One of two buildings on the original HBS campus that were named for their... View Details

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Ahmed Alimi

Advisory Services, FBN Capital, and Helios Investment Partners. "At Helios," Ahmed says, "I had a unique opportunity to work on deals as well as support value creation efforts at our portfolio companies. I worked closely... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

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Enrico Ferrari

Accelerator program. Taking the time to do it right Even with successes under his belt, Enrico still saw investing two years in graduate studies as a necessity. "It takes a lot of energy to run a company. I want to take the time to... View Details

Keywords: Tech

30 Jul 2001
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What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

predictors for (the) future success of a company," he suggests that these measures have to be viewed with a long-term lens, one that accommodates the fact in the short-run, managements may take actions to reduce costs and the size of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

Bojinov says. “That’s not something managers had to think about [before the pandemic]. Now, they do.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/SDI Productions] Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Unfinished... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 Apr 2023
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Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

profit into long-term investments that aligned with the company’s decarbonization goals. Maersk has a unique scale that makes its decarbonization targets particularly important, with the company singlehandedly responsible View Details

December 2017 (Revised July 2020)
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Opportunity Growth at Grupo Torre Médica

By: Juan Alcácer, J. Ramon Lecuona-Torras and Katherine Grozier

Senior management must make a decision for how to grow their search fund to reach the final margins for investors. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Growth Management; Decision Making; Strategy; Mexico; Latin America

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09 Dec 2013
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Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

assuming all members of the team are pulling in the same direction. But what if they aren't? Can being exposed to intercultural conflicts and tensions have an impact even on observers who are not directly involved in these disharmonies?... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Mallika Sarabhai

Mallika Sarabhai, co-Director of Darpana Academy of Performing Arts based in Gujarat, India, talks about her initiatives Darpana for Development and Janavak. While Darpana for Development explores how arts can contribute to social change, the department Janavak (The... View Details

27 Mar 2024
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Video: Inspirational Women in Business

Advanced Micro Devices. She has the unique combination of both technical genius, as well as business acumen. She led an incredible transformation and turnaround of AMD into one of the fastest-growing semiconductor companies in the world. Whitley Cargile: The female... View Details

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Megan Maloney

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I prayed about it a lot and went with my gut. Like so many, I want to positively impact the world. It felt like a good time to come up for air and surround... View Details

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

The North Carolina State Board of Elections began a hearing this week into alleged ballot tampering in last year’s 9th District congressional race, which ended in a razor-thin, 905-vote win for Republican Mark Harris. Since the 2016... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

and build and manage new systems. Throughout, the HBS community worked together to overcome the complexities inherent in this hybrid approach. Students Arrive More than 9,300 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 800 applicants in the Doctoral... View Details

01 Sep 2013
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Dynamic Duo

of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Judy, a former Fidelity Investments executive, is leading a science education initiative for early teens... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Mar 2013
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Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

thinking. But people aren't mind readers," Conant told a roomful of CEOs during the second Higher-Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held at Harvard Business School in January. "I had to go out on a limb and talk about my vision View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

18 Jul 2019
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Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

upstarts to challenge the dominance of the tech giants, who tend to get further out in front of potential disruption. Take, for example, the way Microsoft embraced the shift to cloud-based software, or how Google had the vision to View Details

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