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  • 08 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital

He has now been on the investment team in Toronto for over a year. Key Takeaways for Recruiting Partners As a career switcher, Memme knew he needed to make the case for why he would add value in VC. His persistent attitude, work ethic,... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
  • 02 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

organization. As CEO, for example, he shared his 360-degree performance evaluation from peers and subordinates with HCL’s 50,000 employees as part of what he called “reverse accountability.” Ray Dalio, founder and head of the highly... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

All in a Day's Work

is located in Dudley Square, Roxbury’s commercial hub and the intersection of several major streets — there’s a quiet hum of activity in the open, airy room where twelve BCC staffers are beginning their day. Since its founding in 1985, BCC has View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

insufficient labor levels, which, in turn, degrades profitability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-040.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsCompass Box Whisky Company Harvard Business School Case 108-032 Compass Box Whisky Company is facing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

of 10‐year sustainability‐related goals. In an effort to meet such goals, the company invested a total of $1 billion in environmentally beneficial products such as new seeds and traits in Dow's AgroSciences business, solar shingles, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

find that three commonly used models that all suffer from the IPS restriction-the homogeneous logit model, the nested logit model, and the random coefficient logit model-lead to counterintuitive estimates of the sources of demand gains due to increased marketing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so emerged several... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

raised Audax Group's first fund, and are not able personally to finance the purchase, which would require approximately $30 million. They must decide whether to go through with the purchase, and how to finance it, keeping in mind any issues such an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

community projects, employees team up better around business issues. Q: Boards and business schools, for different reasons, do not cultivate higher-ambition leaders. How should they? A: Boards need to begin to change their frame for how they View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

Investment Conundrum Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon, and Lisa StropeHarvard Business School Case 811-073 Hardina Smythe, a recent MBA graduate, has just joined a top-tier venture capital firm in the difficult environment of late 2010.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

practice. Using evaluation data from variations of a single executive education program, we find that action-learning programs significantly enhance both individual and organizational outcomes compared to traditional executive education... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Harvard Business School Case 818-013 Magpie: Developing and Using Buyer Personas The founders of a start-up platform for publishers have developed preliminary personas of target customers and are evaluating the implications for initial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan officer from a US-based social View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

diversification. By studying the research that analysts produce about companies that have announced corporate spinoffs, we gain unique insights into how analysts portray diversified firms to the investment community. We find that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

partners? And how could edX monetize its services to recoup Harvard and MIT's investments and reward participating universities? This case presented the history of edX and the online education market as background for a discussion about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

they experienced from growth prior to the 1960s. Download the working paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14539 The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention Authors:William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such situations, individuals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

What’s Next

innovation in higher education. How does HBS deal with the risks and opportunities of disruptive innovation for its own long-term development? Ha Xuan Trung (MBA 1978), Brookline, Massachusetts More About The HBS Campaign Investing In... View Details
Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as well as carbon taxes. We use the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel