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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
manage a multi-business corporation?" to engender entrepreneurship and adaptability while maintaining control and realizing economies. All companies, whether large, diversified multinationals or small entrepreneurial startups, wrestle... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
leaders. Inspired, Kloeblen formed a boutique, “CFO for hire” firm called “C-Street” that built a book of small business clients eager for seasoned financial expertise. Word spread and soon, Kloeblen was... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Blake Landro
Motivated to make a difference in the world, Blake Landro seriously considered law school. But while working at a law firm after college, Blake found that he “liked the business side of the firm more than... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
techniques current in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Baker Library Historical Collections contains numerous account books of small proprietors dating from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Dun &... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- Portrait Project
Ian Blasco
I want to build a successful career. For me that means success with a small firm where I am able either to run the firm or otherwise gain autonomy over an area within the... View Details
- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
things in a way that I can be proud of instead of trying to climb up the ladder in the most efficient manner possible. The goal is to accept and learn from whatever the outcome is. Social: from desperately looking for "best friends" to cherishing View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
have complained about for almost two decades. Every year like clockwork, biotech executives warn that the industry is on the verge of consolidating. So far, that hasn't happened. To Pisano, the issue of fragmentation is not as simple as having too many View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Preparing for a career in investment banking
on evaluating a firm to name a few. The majority of people I met were people that I found from searching class cards. I am infinitely grateful for all the people who spared me their precious time. By the time actual company presentations... View Details
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Jonathan and Katja make up the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team that manages relationships with Investment Management firms and works closely... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
R&D spending, reduce employment, and experience lower sales. The results show up throughout the past 40 years, in large and small states, in large and small firms, and are most pronounced in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
that U.S. headquarters were leaner than European ones because of the capital market pressures on U.S. firms. Instead, European firms' headquarters are smaller. As expected, Japanese firms had very large headquarters. The second surprising... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
dependent on large firms for major sources of revenue. Interestingly, this can mean that small business owners may be the first ones to feel the economic squeeze, which increases their motivation to find new... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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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
Henry Taub
Taub took a back-office, manual operation and turned it into a successful business proposition. In starting ADP, he concentrated on providing payroll services for small businesses and for financial service View Details
Keywords: Services
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling reputation for character and integrity. For example, in 1978... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Business World Gone Global
Today, even small firms dare to think globally and invest accordingly - closing deals in Dubai has become almost as commonplace as doing business in Dubuque, thanks to quantum leaps in travel and transport,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Students Assist Needy Family
$1,550 for the family in less than 48 hours. “It was a truly rewarding and meaningful experience for both of us,” said Simmons. SmallCanBeBig.org, created by Boathouse Group, a Boston communications firm led by president John Connors (PMD... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a number of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons