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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
his new team back through the DMZ to the two key breach sites. As Major Gurfein lead the Task Force toward the final objective, he again received indirect fire from Iraqi 82mm mortars and direct fire from Iraqi small arms. Once his Task Force reached the berm, Major... View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
the momentum to continue as Upside starts to manage more company exits and to scale up in Montreal, Vancouver, and on Canada’s Atlantic coast. “It’s exciting to play a part in expanding the philanthropic pool in our country,” Goldstein... 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
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
rather than inspirational leadership.” Of one CEO’s recent exit package ($26.4 million in stock, plus $100 million in cash), Ferracone, noting that the individual’s compensation history was already excessive, told USA Today (November 11,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
you approach it, what you take away from it. I actually honed my exiting skills, how to really negotiate good deals, good exits out of somewhat challenging investments. I completed the four exits, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
market and exit opportunity? Or should NextGen Jane choose the tool most likely to be adopted by ob-gyns to manage their patient populations? The Answers: The idealistic answer is to focus on the gynecological disease that affects the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
reputation-enhancing ratings on one platform. Compared to a small or midsized city, more entrants will vie for dominance in a large city. In a winner-take-all battle between five players, there's essentially a four-out-of-five chance of View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
there's still not a lot in the growth stage. What can we do to fix that? Dodi: Well, that's the million dollar question or billion dollar question. Because also across the board, the landscape has changed from even 10 years ago. We don’t have the number of IPOs that we... 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
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 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 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
- 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 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Clay with 2004 Kentucky Derby champion Smarty Jones. To leave Lexington’s Bluegrass Airport, exit on Man O’ War Boulevard, named for one of history’s greatest Thoroughbred champions. It’s a little like taking the new Ted Williams Tunnel... 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
- 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