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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Continued: The Business Model What Does the Research Say? Show Hide Details Concepts Infectious Change Public Goods Problems Cooperation in the Real Economy Expanding on Purpose Featured Exercises Public good simulation game Prisoner’s... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
founder-CEO said that "if you think there is a real possibility that you might lose their investment, maybe you haven't addressed all the risks" and should take the hint to think again and try harder to reduce them. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
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 for... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
know we are invested in them and care deeply about them. I’ve seen it over the years. When I am teaching executives, among whom may be 60-year-olds, and I ask them, “Write down the name or names of individuals in your career who you knew... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
created by Professor Mitch Weiss for students in The Entrepreneurial Manager. In class, students negotiate terms for a pool of VC money. The simulation draws on PitchBook data from real pitches, and it uses AI and machine learning to make... View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
the African American community. By 1914, it had grown to more than 10,000 members in 600 chapters. Wendell Thomas Cunningham (MBA '15), pictured center, was the first known African American HBS graduate. He joined Cunningham & Sons, a prominent View Details
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
was facilitating conversations between our fledging team and folks in industry – whether it was potential customers or investors. First, it was valuable to gather real customer feedback on our hypotheses, and also served as a source of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
in there who is an arrogant, ethnocentric person. It is important to understand country differences as strengths, not as impediments to your operation. The real battle now is shifting to how you use the world as a source of ideas and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
joined venture capital firm 500 Global as partner in its newly opened offices in a renovated factory near Cairo University. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010, with $2.8 billion in assets under management, 500 Global had already invested... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
interesting and inspiring people, it also allowed me to land my ideal summer internship on the Digital Strategy & Investments team at Sony Music Entertainment (alongside two HBS grads). Lastly, on a more personal note, I am grateful... View Details
- 02 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to the JD/MBA Program
Joanna: I grew up in Maryland and went to Yale for undergrad, where I studied Economics and East Asian Studies. Before grad school, I spent one year in investment banking and two years in capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957
By the time Ed Matthews arrived at HBS in 1955, he was a married Korean War veteran eager to advance his real world education. “As an undergraduate, you learn things from a theoretical perspective,” says Matthews, a graduate of Princeton... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
ballot fraud have erupted and intense focus invested in possible measures to ensure election integrity. States have increasingly enacted voter ID laws as one such deterrent. But we also know that laws aimed at securing the voting process,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
2002, 'venture philanthropy' as we know it today didn't exist, but we saw the opportunity to use business practices to create real social change," says Jacobson of the origins of Strategic Grant Partners, a coalition of 15 family... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
new venture. Getting other people interested enough to either invest their money or buy the product is the really difficult part, and it's often the spot where even the most experienced executives and entrepreneurs stumble. “An idea isn't... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
declined or held flat, and return on invested capital (ROIC) has suffered dramatically. This decline in ROIC has been exacerbated by the significant growth in store square footage before the recession. Retail store count exploded through... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
perspectives from founders, CEOs and numerous executives, board members, partners, customers, analysts, and the tech and financial press. Two of the firms became cognitive referents for online investing while the other three fizzled out.... View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
out from Bain Capital Double Impact with an interest in investing in Medoff’s small company in North Carolina, helping scale it across the United States. He reflected, “The relationships that were built during the Joint Degree Program... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
is on Commercial space ventures have received more than $18.4 billion of investment since 2000, according to the Start-Up Space 2018 report from research firm Bryce Space and Technology. Weinzierl says recent progress by two of the most... View Details