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Clubs - Business & Environment

expose the HBS community to a broad range of real estate industry topics, & provide social, career-oriented, & professional networking opportunities. Social Enterprise Club The mission of the Social... View Details
  • 2018
  • Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building

The Importance of Entrepreneurship to the Black Community

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HBS - The year in Review

Venture Competition Turns 25 Celebrating a quarter century of innovation and entrepreneurship, the New Venture Competition in March featured 20 student and alumni finalist teams coming together to compete... View Details
  • December 2004 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Extend Fertility

By: Myra M. Hart and Sylvia Sensiper
Focuses on the search for opportunity, the generation and evaluation of business concepts, creation of a business plan, and the start-up process. Follows experienced entrepreneur Christy Jones as she combines her business skills and personal experience to generate new... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Gender; Business Startups; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

investors have a positive impact on the growth, performance, and survival of firms as well as their follow-on fundraising. The positive impact of angel financing is independent of the level of venture activity and entrepreneur... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Finance - Faculty & Research

Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ; Shipping Industry ; Tourism Industry ; Transportation Industry ; Travel Industry ; Norway ; Europe Citation Educators Purchase Related Kaps, Christian, and Michael W. Toffel. "Hurtigruten: Sea... View Details
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

Enroll by May 8 $1,850 Certificate Launching Tech Ventures Professor Jeffrey Bussgang Gain proven frameworks to build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably scale and attract View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

with reusable grocery bags has been strongly promoted as environmentally and socially conscious. In parallel, firms have joined policy makers in using a variety of initiatives to reduce the use of plastic bags. However, little is known... View Details
  • December 2024 (Revised January 2025)
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Balancing Returns and Responsibilities at Raya Partners

By: Arthur Segel, Ephraim Mernick, Derek C. M. van Bever and Olivia Barba
Raya Partners, a private equity firm, faces a crucial decision regarding Asa Specialty Coatings Company (ASCC). The dilemma involves shifting ASCC's manufacturing operations to Mexico, a move that would boost profitability and reduce emissions but result in significant... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Communication Strategy; Private Equity; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Financial Services Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mexico; Vermont
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  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Do Collusive Norms Maximize Profits? Evidence From a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe and Benjamin N. Roth
Social norms have been shown to facilitate anti-competitive behavior in decentralized markets. We demonstrate that these norms can also reduce aggregate profits. First, we present descriptive evidence of competition-suppressing norms in Kolkata vegetable markets.... View Details
Keywords: Collusion; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Small Business; Microeconomics; Kolkata
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?

By: James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard
What happens when small iconic socially-oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating both business value and substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Style; Agreements and Arrangements; Social Enterprise; Social Issues
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Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

service-based for-profit venture. The program is competitive and offers one-time loan reduction awards of up to $20,000 to a limited number of graduating students who are selected based on a financial aid assessment, quality of the View Details
  • July–August 2019
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The Soul of a Startup

By: Ranjay Gulati
There’s an essential, intangible something in start-ups—an energy, a soul. It inspires enthusiasm and fosters a sense of deep connection and mutual purpose. While this spirit persists, engagement is high and businesses keep their edge.
But all too often,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Mission and Purpose; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Creativity; Business Growth and Maturation
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California - Global

topics such as scaling startups, angel and venture investing, acquisition-related manufacturing integration processes, the commercialization of technology, capacity issues at biotech companies, and growth challenges for clean-tech... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

we measure better versus worse? Even more simply, How do we keep score? "At the economy wide or social level," he continues, "the issue is the following: If we could dictate the criterion or objective function to be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

    James K. Sebenius

    JAMES K. (“Jim”) SEBENIUS, is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and teaches advanced... View Details

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    Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

    During Course Activities The purpose of this policy is to clarify the School’s position on capturing (e.g., photography, audio, video, live streaming and other formats) and/or disseminating (e.g., via the media or use of social media)... View Details
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    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Model (23) Business Offices (4) Business Plan (2) Business Processes (4) Business Startups (39) Business Strategy (31) Business Units (1) Business Ventures (153) Business and Community Relations (8) Business and Government Relations (44)... View Details
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    The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details