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- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
CloudFlare have all participated and gone on to achieve significant success in their respective fields. “The greatest risk is the fear of failure,” said Professor of Business Administration William Sahlman to the assembled crowd in his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
other policymakers to remove regulatory barriers that entangle Indian start-ups. Worse than government red tape is the lack of risk capital for emerging firms, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna, an expert on the Indian and Chinese economies... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
scale, risk and opportunities, and how to achieve success through the relentless pursuit of excellence. He not only offers readers a thoughtful reflection on all his own experiences, but also in doing so provides a practical blueprint for... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
The following article is the fifth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. "With the time-honored marketing maxim "the customer is king" now reverberating throughout all parts of the firm, the traditional corporate... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
in January 2013. The company has conducted proof-of-concept pre-clinical studies, and Anquetil expects human clinical studies to begin in the next two years. The risks with medical start-ups are the same as those for any View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
second-year course Entrepreneurial Finance. “With a new venture, the early days are not so bad because you pick off the early adopters who are willing to pay the price because they need the service. I’m rooting for them all, but it’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
women colleagues from other universities — all noted authorities on entrepreneurial growth — began a collaborative research project in 1998 to tease out the underlying reasons for the disparity in enterprise size and growth rate. Clearing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
we’re going to examine why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing its startup crown and what that could mean for the future of innovation. READ MORE If you were asked to name some of the greatest View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
chief made the projects sound simple enough - nothing that Singaporean efficiency could not solve. Fellow panelist William Liley, managing director of Asian Infrastructure Fund Advisers Ltd., which manages the Asian Infrastructure Fund, said, "The View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
return to consulting afterward. But Izquierdo, who spent six months at an Italian culinary institute after high school, had long wanted to open her own eatery as a side venture. In the meantime, Azuero had been mulling entrepreneurial... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
boutique investment firm; Bear Stearns; and then Gruss Partners, where he concentrated on risk arbitrage and bankruptcy investing. In 1994, Paulson was ready to return to his entrepreneurial roots and set up... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
key impact and operational milestones will need to include the ability to adapt your strategy as you learn more about what is actually creating impact and what will appeal to future rounds of funders. Private philanthropists will often invest View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
opportunities and risks when evaluating investments. The technology classes gave me some subject matter expertise on the industries in which North Island invests. The general management and negotiations classes gave me a toolkit to manage... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
corporate auditing and financial reporting. "Integrity and high ethical standards are an essential part of the process." Reforms such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are making a difference, continues Franklin. "We don't want to go too far with regulation, or else we View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Web-based technologies. Recent HBS research has focused on a number of companies led by these pioneering senior executives. The profiles that follow shed some light on the challenges they face and reveal the extent to which the View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
management, risk management for global investment, and negotiation and deal structuring. He also served in a variety of leadership roles: as chair of the Finance unit (1986–88); as senior associate dean, director of Faculty Planning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coauthored by Professor Tom Eisenmann and researcher Lisa Mazzanti, is under discussion by first-year students in The Entrepreneurial Manager. Wallace has the opportunity to offer a firsthand perspective and listen as her decision points... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to reinvent themselves in operations,... View Details