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  • 24 Aug 2018
  • Video

Customer Interaction Days

  • 25 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)

been far more challenging for me to transition into entrepreneurship and venture capital roles. As a Venture Partner at Heinz Ventures LLC, I apply my multidisciplinary background to identifying and... View Details
  • September 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Gemini Investors

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 211-066. Gemini Investors was a private equity firm that targeted equity investments of between $4 million to $6 million per firm. In the period from 2000 to 2015, Gemini had successfully deployed four funds, all licensed as Small Business... View Details
Keywords: Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Small Business; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • July 2014 (Revised October 2014)
  • Case

McKinsey & Co. - Protecting its Reputation (A)

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
On Tuesday March 15, 2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey & Co. gathered at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC for their annual Partners' conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda,... View Details
Keywords: Board; McKinsey; Consulting Firms; Risk; Risk Assessment; Partnerships; Insider Trading; Confidentiality; Personal Investing; Reputation; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Consulting Industry; United States; California
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  • September 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Katie Couric Media: Landing the First Client

By: N. Louis Shipley and William R. Kerr
In May 2018, celebrated journalist Katie Couric and her husband, John Molner, had recently launched a full-service media firm called Katie Couric Media (KCM). Couric treasured the opportunity to address important social issues like gender equality, environmental... View Details
Keywords: Customer Acquisition; Subscription Model; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Media; Customers; Acquisition; Social Issues; Brands and Branding; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 02 Oct 2020
  • News

HBS Announces Inaugural Cohort of Executive Fellows

  • January 2005 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Gobi Partners: October 2004

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
The general partners of Gobi Partners, a venture fund located in Shanghai, are trying to decide the best way to raise money for their first fund. Their strategy of investing in early-stage digital media companies in China was well-received by strategic investors--IBM... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Goals and Objectives; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Conflict Management; Shanghai
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  • 24 May 2012
  • News

It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

  • December 2009
  • Case

Milliway Capital & Martin Smith: November 2008

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann Leamon
Martin Smith, a recent MBA graduate, has just joined a top-tier venture capital firm in the difficult environment of late 2008. One of his first assignments is to review three companies in a partner's portfolio and recommend strategies for managing them. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Financial Management; Private Equity; Business Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Venture Capital; Business or Company Management
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  • 23 Oct 2020
  • Video

Entrepreneurship Opportunities in a Post-COVID World: The Future of Work

  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Blog Post

HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting

One of Harvard’s most interesting experiences during the first year of the MBA is FIELD 2. FIELD 2 is a program where students work in small teams to complete projects for companies operating in emerging economies around the globe. In my... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • April 2022
  • Case

Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash

By: Sunil Gupta, Linda A. Hill, Julia Kelley and Emily Tedards
In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal “Ajay” Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for continued success in the years to come. Since Mastercard’s initial public offering in 2006, the company had grown and... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Leadership; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Change; Change Management; Money; Cash; Credit; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Central Banking; Financial Instruments; Credit Cards; Financial Markets; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US)
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  • September 2022
  • Case

ROI vs. ROI: The Grupo Baobá Family Office

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger
Fernando Scodro, a third-generation member of his family, mulled over the next step in integrating an ESG strategy into his family office’s investment portfolio. While his family office, Grupo Baobá, had made excellent progress in incorporating his family’s values into... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; ESG; Green Building; Family; Partnership; Latin America; Brazil; Buildings and Facilities; Green Buildings; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Financial Management; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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  • 11 Jan 2022
  • News

Sales Management That Works with Frank Cespedes

    Sanjay Lalbhai

    Keywords: Textiles
    • 30 Oct 2019
    • Blog Post

    Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned

    When HBS students imagine their graduation, many picture themselves with a mortarboard on their heads, a gown on their shoulders, and a job offer in their hands. Yet, as many as twenty percent of Harvard MBAs will graduate with their employment decisions still ahead of... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries

      Mitchell B. Weiss

      Mitch Weiss is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the... View Details

      • 16 Sep 2024
      • Blog Post

      Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process

      unintentional, nevertheless create boundaries to employment. We asked four HBS alumni with diverse abilities to share their perspective on recruiting, both as candidates and as hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers. The advice they share View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • 14 May 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: May 14

      implications for the pace at which consumers go online? Amara's Law claims that we tend to overestimate change in the short run and underestimate it in the long run. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/513060-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Research Summary

      The Business of Stem Cells

      By: Debora L. Spar
      In 2004, the topic of stem cell research made both medical and moral headlines. Buoyed by a series of technological breakthroughs, stem cell scientists grew increasingly convinced that they would eventually be able to use embryonic stem cells -- the pluripotent cells... View Details