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14 Jul 2023
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs the opportunity to work closely with leading biotech industry and biomedical authorities, receive mentorship, and join a community of entrepreneurs shaping the future of science. To date, Blavatnik Fellows have created... View Details

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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Michael R. Bloomberg

this was before people had desktops.” From a small startup in a one-room office, Bloomberg LP defied the odds and grew exponentially, attracting 10,000 customers in the first ten years. Offering a groundbreaking private network with data,... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Jones Jr. (MBA 1998), Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Panelists: Przemek Gotfryd, Capchase Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998), Now Avani Patel, The Ember Company 1:45–3:15 p.m. Founders & Builders Track: View Details

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

appear eye-popping, in relative terms they represented only 0.3 percent of the value of Lehman’s assets. For smaller companies this percentage is significantly higher. This is a real concern right now given how severely View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

02 Apr 2020
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What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

unprepared boards and CEOs from responsibility so their companies won’t be sued.” “In the corporate sector, the continuing effort to brand the COVID-19 pandemic as a Black Swan is a retroactive attempt to protect unprepared boards and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

self-sabotaging their companies by mistakenly adhering to practices on the list. When Thomke shares portions of the field manual with business executives in class, they tend to respond with a nervous chuckle. But then the room grows... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

Goldman Sachs: Making an Imprint in Impact Investing Goldman Sachs acquired Imprint Capital Advisors, a small firm that specialized in advising clients on environmental/social/governance (ESG) and impact investments. The founders sold... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Oct 2024
Cold Call Podcast

Can a Coffee Shop in Utah Help Solve Underemployment for People with Disabilities?

Keywords: Re: Richard S. Ruback

June 2024
Supplement

Heritage Holding (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: The summer of 2022 marked a crucial period for Heritage Holding co-founders, Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter. The... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Private Equity; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; North America

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06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

professor of accounting at Howard University, where he taught for over 30 years. There he developed the marketing program and organized the Howard University Small Business Development Center. He joined the Pepsi–Cola View Details

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

companies, US mid-sized companies, international small companies, and international equity. Brown’s teams use revenue instead of market capitalization to define their areas of focus, and search for companies... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Michael E. Porter presents at the Shared Value Leadership Summit on how creating both business and social value makes a company stand out against the competition. 22 JANUARY 2015 Media Mention Divergence Is the Narrative of U.S. Economy... View Details

01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

Working PapersCollaborative Architectures for Innovation Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Abstract Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Women at HBS - Alumni

alumnae's experiences at and beyond HBS. 800 alumni attended the two-day W50 Summit on campus April 4–5, 2013 to celebrate the anniversary; hear keynote speakers Karen Gordon Mills (MBA 1977), Administrator of the US Small Business... View Details

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

question. What follows are six ways to make your threats more credible in negotiation. 1. Increase your costs of not following through on your threat Imagine that you're thinking about bidding to acquire another company that would be of... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

22 Sep 2023
News

Capital Connection

Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

June 2024
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Heritage Holding (A)