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- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
as customer acquisition, on-time delivery, developing new services and products, and running efficiently. But operating performance is also a result; it is derivative of human... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a community of health care providers
vision is to make DaVita (Italian for “giving life”) “the best dialysis company the world has ever seen.” Thiry is known as the “mayor of DaVita Village” by the company’s more than 50,000 employees, who are referred to View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
head started spinning: Okay, what did I see here? What are the implications?” As a researcher, Ofek’s interests include toy brands, and he’s written more than one case study in the space, View Details
- January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?
By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Innovation And Invention; Investment; Ownership; Science; Science Bassed Business; Markets; Relationships; Capital; Private Equity; Technological Innovation; Investment Return; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Science-Based Business; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
Rogers, Steven, and Kenneth J. Cooper. "Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?" Harvard Business School Case 317-079, January 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
A Steady Voice in Difficult Times
school were probably the courses that focused on managing people. So when I left the business school and ended up in the financial services business, and was managing people, one of the things that I tried very hard to do was to really... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Baker’s Staff Gets a 21st-Century Name
Once upon a time, libraries collected books, and librarians checked them out. But those days are long gone as libraries have moved into the digital age. Baker Library, for example, also produces Web sites,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
travel. Allow them to really feel like they are living like a local and connecting them with people from local communities as they travel, to get a much better sense of what... View Details
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
financial strength, increasing annual revenues to $12 billion while reducing costs. A $3.6 billion fundraising campaign further strengthened its balance sheet. With the help of a skilled team of physician... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
had received an appointment to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis while in high school. He had more of a technological bent than did Callaghan, and he studied both systems engineering and nuclear engineering. He was in the Submarine View Details
- Fast Answer
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
investors and service providers across the private investment lifecycle. LSEG Workspace - provides public and private company profiles and strong in company analyst reports, current and historical SEC filings. It also provides... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
the Department of Human Services and Specialisterne, a Danish social enterprise organization, the initiative taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, including attention to detail,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
additional medical services like dental or long-term care, and patient cost sharing. How much health care is a right? Establishing a basic plan would require policymakers to... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities
Last spring, for example, hundreds of graduates engaged with MBA students as part of the first-year capstone experience and many were involved with the new January-term Short Intensive Programs(SIPs) offered to all MBAs. Alumni around the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
Officer Wim Elfrink, as quoted by Eccles, Edmondson, et al. “Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?” p. 37 “ $20--$40 billion project ’ “Gravity Defying: Whither Korea’s bid to build a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
to sit down, work, use Wi-Fi.” He unabashedly cites a “Starbucks-like feel” as the objective, although some essential parts of that experience may take even longer to develop than View Details