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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

corporate advantage statement. 3. Scope: Businesses and Portfolio Transformation Defining the boundaries of the firm - the limit to its scope - is critical to crafting the corporate portfolio. At the extreme, this determines which... View Details

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

the recent launch of his new, $6 billion closed-end vehicle, Pershing Square Holdings, as well as the firm's lengthening investment horizon. Although always activist in nature, Ackman and his fund had in recent years become substantively... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

25 Jun 2018
Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

Aaron Scheinfeld, MBA 2019, did not launch a formal search for his summer internship. Yet he found an opportunity he is excited about, largely by pursuing the interests that come naturally to him. After two years with Morgan Stanley’s View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Oct 1996
News

No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

"Wall Street in 1971 was not just subtly hostile toward women, it was blatantly so," says Havens-Hasty, who today sits at the helm of her own investment management company, Havens Advisors. Laughingly referring to herself in those days as... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Sep 2004
News

Hollywood Story

Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of each new venture, View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

27 Oct 2020
News

HBS Votes

K1 Investment Management, is leading an effort in his investment firm to give time off for voting for all K1 employees and over 5,000 portfolio company employees. K1 recently... View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

invests significant resources in software such as Java and Linux that IBM does not own in order to integrate many companies' products and services for IBM's customers. Intel invests significant resources in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

with limited financial resources can then focus on supplying superior bottleneck modules, while outsourcing and allowing complementors to supply non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2025
Teaching Note

Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours

By: Jung Koo Kang, Krishna G. Palepu and Charles C.Y. Wang

Keywords: Accounting Standards; Bank Runs; Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting; Social Media; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment Portfolio; Interest Rates; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Statements; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; United States

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Purchase

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

that we have invested in significantly to understand deeply I'll trust our predictions. And I'll trust the prediction more if it's (from) someone who has an unbiased 3rd party interest in the outcome." Paul Lepley added that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2025
News

Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)

an existing one—like using the game’s predictable income to entice lenders. Sonnenberg has expanded her work on what she calls the “debt side of sports.” The addition of teams, leagues, and sports-adjacent businesses, including concessionaires and sales agencies, to... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

students. Many of you will be entrepreneurs building and working with a board of directors as you create and grow your company. Others will join private equity or venture capital firms where you will serve on the boards of the firm’s View Details

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Policy - Business & Environment

2019 survey by Yale and George Mason University: 87 % of people surveyed supported investments in renewable energy (infrastructure and research) 82 % supported regulating GHG emissions (requiring companies to limit their pollution) 72 %... View Details

05 May 2022
News

Like-Minded

parents had built one of the largest chocolate factories in Japan. “Each of us had grown up watching our parents struggle but also successfully grow their own businesses,” Murakami explains. “We grew up with a tremendous amount of respect for entrepreneurs.” MPower... View Details

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

venture investors are not needed. For most of its history, Intel's fund has emphasized making passive investments in a wide variety of companies in selected categories, analogous to a mutual fund following an index fund approach. Such a... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

16 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

bring to future employers. Rocio Wu: I was inspired to explore how VCs can use a data-driven approach to improve the operational inefficiencies in three parts of the VC investment process – 1) Originate new View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Profile

Paul Luning

match." The objective: a position within a clean energy startup in Africa. To his surprise, Paul received four offers. "I decided to work for E+Co, a clean tech VC firm that invests in developing countries. I'll be doing due... View Details

15 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

must contribute to the other. Q: What is the innovation pyramid and how does it work? A: The innovation pyramid is an innovation strategy that works at three levels. The lion's share of the investment underwrites a few big bets at the... View Details