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  • 5 Feb 2013
  • Conference Presentation

Financing Entrepreneurial Growth

By: Tom Alberg, Andrew A. Bogan, Harold Bradley, Robert D. Cooter, Monika Gruter Cheney, Oliver R. Goodenough, William R. Hambrecht, Frank Hatheway, Thomas F. Hellmann, Marianne Hudson, Jared Konczal, Josh Lerner, Robert E. Litan, Diane Mulcahy, Ramana Nanda, Frank Partnoy, Joe Ratterman, Nava Ravikant, Jay R. Ritter, Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson, Allison Schrager, Barry Silbert, E. R. Sirri, Daniel Stangler and Sharon Vosmek

Despite recent innovations in entrepreneurial finance, particularly at the early stage of business creation, many new and young companies continue to face hurdles to acquire capital.

The Kauffman Foundation addressed current challenges and opportunities in... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; United States
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  • March 2008
  • Case

Novartis AG: Science-Based Business

By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Novartis is a science-based drug company, which has important implications for its business strategy. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with over $38B in sales in 2007. Pharmaceuticals account for slightly over $24B of that total. In 2007,... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

school, for example, I had been asked to research insurance coverage for a raft of lawsuits being brought against Johns-Manville Corporation for injuries and deaths from exposure to asbestos. At the time,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

climate risks. Sarah shares insights from her work building predictive wildfire risk models using satellite imagery, AI, and systems design to enable more targeted insurance underwriting View Details
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

Mutual. The insurer fills more than 80 percent of managerial positions with internal candidates. “This is not a name and shame exercise,” says Fuller. “This is trying to get better information into the hands... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 10 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

costs. It’s more like an insurance payment. Whistleblowers incur a lot of costs and get some money as compensation. That changes how we think about whistleblower incentives; it isn’t a reward. White: Is... View Details
Keywords: by April White
  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

Source: rawpixel Many jobs involve completing a series of sequential, independent, prearranged tasks. Physicians see patients; teachers grade papers; insurance agents process stacks of claims. In the interest of productivity, some... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • Web

Hawes Hall | About

executive, and industry leader, Hawes established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a reputation for character and integrity. In 1972, he founded Insurance... View Details
  • Program

Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

Summary When you improve value, everyone wins—your patients, your organization, and the global health care ecosystem. This live online program examines the latest strategies and organizational models for... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry
    • 02 Mar 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

    avoidance on the part of physicians, a litigious society, and inadequate protection from it for physicians (Rowland Freeman), "defensive" medicine leading to unnecessary tests and treatments, an View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Financial Sector More Info The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves By: Robin Greenwood & Annette Vissing-Jorgensen JUN 2018 In this NBER working paper, researchers from the Behavioral... View Details
    • 15 May 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?

    Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson & Bilal Zia; Financial Services
    • August 2003 (Revised August 2024)
    • Case

    Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and John McDonough
    Many health care innovations appear successful; but fail. This is the first case in the Innovating Health Care course that investigates how to create successful health care innovations. It is part of the first module in the course. This module focuses on how to... View Details
    Keywords: Three Pillars; Industry Analysis; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
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    • 16 Jun 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

    trip by, for example, vacationing closer to home; drive more economically and less aggressively to improve miles per gallon; and buy a specific dollar amount of gas rather than filling up every time, even... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 26 Aug 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

    into action. As Cyrus the Great once said, leaders must balance the need for "diversity in counsel, unity in command." To accomplish this, leaders must insure that each participant has a fair and... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
    • Web

    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    Model Citation Register to Read Purchase Related Visnjic, Ivanka, Felipe Monteiro, and Michael L. Tushman. "Sustainability as a Business-Model Transformation." Harvard Business Review 103, no. 3 (May–June 2025): 80–89. The Limits of View Details
    • 27 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

    insurance and all that stuff. So that’s a game changer for most automotive companies. What does it mean, and how is it going to change who they are View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Accelerating the Accelerator: Raja Al Mazrouei at DIFC Fintech Hive

    By: Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards and Lydia Begag
    In January 2023, Raja Al Mazrouei became the Managing Director and Acting CEO of Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) in Dubai, UAE. In her previous role as the Executive Vice President of the DIFC Fintech Hive, she successfully built and led an accelerator program for... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Management; Strategy; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Technological Innovation; Digital Marketing; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Banks and Banking; Corporate Finance; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Banking Industry; Middle East; Singapore; London; United Arab Emirates; Dubai
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    Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    Library Search Search Search Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 Exhibition Global Impact of the Collapse Great Recession After Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September 2008, approximately twenty-six thousand of the firm’s employees worldwide lost their jobs, View Details