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Events - Private Capital Project

Capital Project) Israel’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem June 15, 2023, “Israel’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” with Eugene Kandel (Start-Up Nation Central), Rona Segev (TLV Partners), Adam Fisher(Bessemer Venture... View Details

26 Mar 2020
Blog Post

The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

COVID-19" – a project he hopes will provide insights directly from the VC industry to founders and investors on how to manage their business and financial expectations through these unprecedented times. These are some key... View Details

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

quickly allows employees to assess their options and find new opportunities within the industry, pivoting to another sector or starting an entrepreneurial venture to find more meaningful work. Two things companies should be doing now:... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization, making the equity stakes of earlier... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

recent tax credits, loans, and grants passed in Washington will drive innovation, accelerate the transition, and demonstrate the U.S. commitment to a managed transition to a low/no carbon economy. Following the morning keynotes, attendees... View Details

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

relationship between green business and governments. The struggles of entrepreneurial pioneers have rarely proved profitable, as they were forced to compete with conventional businesses that ignored negative environmental externalities... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

banker -- the guest had also risen from humble origins and was now in the midst of an ambitious, if cash-strapped, bid to go even farther. Soon after that meeting, Brody stepped down from his position as a partner and member of the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

to change your life. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54720 in press Health Care Management Review Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation By: Jung, Olivia S., Andrea... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban school systems to drive improved... View Details

24 Oct 2019
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Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

limited to working at law firms, management consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, venture capital firms, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, the U.S. court system, start-ups and non-profit... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

seashells washing up on the shore—all of which would also require time and attention, be they challenges or opportunities. You can’t ignore them; but you also can’t let them consume you, because you still have to manage the rest of the... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Diversity and Equity - Alumni

mission. Ascend Leaders The Ascend Leadership Program helps first-generation and low-income MBA students thrive, both academically and socially. It encompasses practical tools, ongoing workshops, community-building events—including pre-orientation—to foster inclusion.... View Details

11 May 2022
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MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

here will make the MBA experience very different from many of the students, but as long as your priorities are clear you can make it work and you will likely find more people around to help than you imagine. HBS mama memory? I started having contractions in a The View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

inventing an industry and a business model based on an unproven hypothesis: that major synergies can be achieved by culling resources from existing industries whose boundaries seem to be disappearing. The challenge to management is even... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

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Dilan Gomih

think now." As an example, she references her Technology & Operations Management course, “which teaches you how managers can make things more efficient. Now, even when I'm in a cafeteria line, I'm... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Entertainment/Media

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Indeed, Chandler concluded, by the mid-2oth century, the multiunit, multifunctional enterprise administered by salaried managers had become the “most powerful institution in the American economy.” In his 1962 book Strategy and Structure,... View Details

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

entrepreneurs. Designed for entrepreneurial and international business courses. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807075 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Harvard Business School Case 407-028 Bill... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Judges - Alumni

Managing Partner, 2048 Ventures Malgorzata (Gosia) Karas, MBA 2017 General Partner, Actuator Capital Juan Leung Li, MBA 2014 Partner, Tectonic Ventures Donna Levin CEO, Arthur M. Blank School for View Details

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

young, entrepreneurial companies come on the scene and sweep away large incumbent enterprises. He famously wrote in 1939 that big companies become, in his words, like old men, losing their innovative vitality as they age. We have seen the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

of," says Weiss. A new Harvard Business School course inspires students to be entrepreneurial leaders in government. Pictured: Government Center in Boston. ©iStock.com/gregobagel Not that producing such results comed easy. As One... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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