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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small companies to compete... View Details
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Dan Lufkin | Baker Library
Dan Lufkin MBA 1957, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Play Video duration: 1:05:11 Dan Lufkin, HBS 1957. Interview conducted in April 2002 Dan Lufkin, HBS 1957, was a cofounder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Among his early contributions to DLJ’s success was the... View Details
Henry F. Henderson, Jr.
moved from Henderson’s home to a large industrial plant. Under Henderson’s leadership, HI has grown from a small basement enterprise with $20,000 in sales to a large industrial technology firm with revenues... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog
What are the key strategies for creating successful MSPs? Tactics—Judo & Sumo Strategy: Many of the critical challenges in fast-moving technology businesses are tactical in nature: how and when do firms cooperate and compete with View Details
Juan Leungli
Growing up, Juan watched his family transition from being farmers in a small village in rural China to becoming restaurateurs in Mexico City – Juan loves working with equally passionate and driven entrepreneurs. Juan is a Co-founder and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Back from the Brink
MILLS: Sometimes when the bottom falls out of the bottom line, the only place to go is up. Harold Mills (MBA ’98) is CEO of ZeroChaos, an IT staffing and human- resources outsourcing firm based in Orlando, Florida. With some $365 million... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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The $4 Billion Question
It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
for every $2 billion or so in cash holdings, a company was six times more likely to be sued by an NPE. Furthermore, they found that NPEs tend to go after firms that have small legal teams, or those engaged... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
role in that process. “The way entrepreneurs create jobs is not by staying small forever and creating a gazillion firms,” says Kerr. “It’s a small firm that grows to a Facebook... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“It is not at all clear that when firms expand abroad they contract at home. If anything, you see the opposite.” — HBS professor MIHIR DESAI noting that foreign profits made by American firms put them in a... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
small IT consulting firm, Exeter needs to make careful choices about how it allocates resources to projects, and it is not clear if the firm has the capacity to add all four projects at once. Thus Kutchins... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small companies to compete... View Details
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Private companies: fast growing
Companies, Small Giants: Best Small Companies) Fortune Rankings (ex: 100 Fastest Growing Companies) Inc. 5000 FormDs.com Nearly all startups and investment View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Reawakening rural America
Jack Schultz (MBA 1976) founded Agracel, an industrial development firm, to boost the economies of rural America in places such as Teutopolis, Illinois, the small farming hamlet where he grew up. The Effingham, Illinois-based company has... View Details
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Ryan Kim
Ryan (HBS '02, Harvard College '95) is particularly interested in helping students and alumni find balance and meaning in their career choices. Throughout his adult life, he has attempted to balance divergent personal and career interests and is still on that journey.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
Intel, Netscape, Oracle, Apple, and Hewlett-Packard, among other technology firms. Some 35 high tech, venture capital, and investment management companies opened their doors to the eighty students on the West Club's trip and sent high-level representatives to meet with... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 06 Apr 2017
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From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing
A Massachusetts firm that makes wire mesh for lobster traps says its technology could save millions in building the US-Mexico border wall proposed by President Donald Trump. "It's difficult to climb, it's difficult to cut—I think it just... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
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Funding Solar’s Future
Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
interested in this topic? I grew up on a lot of these programs. As a kid, my family was on Medicaid and food stamps. It gave me a firsthand experience with what being on these programs is like, and what they can help families do. My family ended up starting a View Details