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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
help grow the brand. “The trade-off was that the investment resulted in their having a majority stake in the company and ultimately taking control of it,” Philp says. “For me it was a positive experience in the sense that we launched a brand and found an View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
couple of experiments should not be that much of a bandwidth killer. —Jacob Navon (MBA 1984) It’s critical to choose one and “own” it. Which one to choose is largely a function of the exit strategy. Owning one specific market will... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and developing a sequenced regional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
time. They spun Aliro out of Harvard’s Quantum Information Science Lab, then incubated it at the Harvard i-lab. Ricotta came on board in 2019. A seasoned tech CEO, he had already launched a number of startups into emerging networking fields that resulted in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
numbers for the next quarter and they don't materialize, they often feel publicly embarrassed by their inaccuracy and take their anger out on the subject company by reversing a previous “buy” recommendation. That causes many institutional investors to run for the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
and that's very important to me." Looking to the future, Shafir muses that when he turns fifty in a few years, it may be time to try something totally different, but for now he is content. "People have asked me about my exit strategy, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
raise money to pay the exit fee and became the cooperative’s new green-energy utility, all while promising about $100 million in energy-cost savings over the next 10 years. Guzman Energy is also helping the community build its own... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
of more than $8.5 billion, was started in 1978 with $9,000 on a credit card by a man named Bill Rasmussen, who got pushed out the door in less than a year. That early exit brought to mind John Kao’s class on entrepreneurship, where we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
for those whose adjustable rates have skyrocketed? These are small steps in the right direction, but they do not address the problems of those whose impaired credit is keeping them from refinancing or exiting from troubled mortgages. To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
Illustration by ROBERTO PARADA On the day after the White House asked Thomas T. Riley (MBA ’75) to be the next ambassador to Morocco, a dozen suicide bombers struck in Casablanca, killing and injuring more than 100 people. As Riley watched CNN, he thought, “I hope the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
years the growth rate of the vaccine industry will be between 15 and 20 percent, making it a very attractive industry. The margins are, again, not as high as in patented, branded products, but they still are quite attractive. Also, one of the reasons why big pharma... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
possibly make a profit. If American companies couldn't raise their prices to OEMs, exit was the only option. Moreover, this was obvious to anyone who could do arithmetic. So why did these things happen this way? If the tire companies... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
“Those first six have had over 550 members attend the live events, and all of our HBSHAA members have access to the recordings after the events,” she says. Recent VRT topics have included a panel discussion with leaders from CVS, talking about their strategic decision... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
defining what measures of social return it is looking for. In some instances social and economic returns could be correlated, but in many cases they won’t. If you are looking for a social and not an economic return, then loyalty to the program rather than an View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
for a successful exit from the working world—and a few more like Teeling, who chafe at the very notion. And while this episode of Skydeck was notably recorded in pre-pandemic times, we think the advice offered here remains relevant. READ... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
The Atlantic Finds a New Home
(Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) On Friday, David Bradley (MBA 1977) announced that he would be selling the Atlantic magazine to Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In a staff memo published in the... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
designed to immerse visitors in a contemplative experience. Ceilings and walls are deemphasized and there are no exit signs, smoke detectors, or visible security cameras. “There is nothing to distract people from looking at art and... View Details