venture capital industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

while at the same time, a range of stakeholders can question, claim their share, or put up guardrails around that headlong rush toward change. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems — particularly by business itself — will help keep our system of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2004
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Ron Shaich’s Café Society

sandwiches on its own bread. We spent the next two years traveling the country attempting to understand the changes occurring in our industry and concluded that, like so many others, the food industry was... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built

aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II. In this turbulent era, he developed a distinctive focus and pedagogy that helped define business as a profession and grew a pioneering Harvard venture into... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni Are Integral to HBS

chairman of Metis Capital Partners in Lagos, Nigeria, who also chairs the advisory board of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. “As alumni, we need to give students the benefit of our judgment so that they aren’t always reinventing the... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

profits. In his first visit to HBS, Corzine spoke in January to a large Burden Hall audience about opportunities in, and the outlook for, the investment banking sector. He predicted good times ahead for the industry amid strong demand for... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check

Venture Incubation Program. Fast forward several months and much web development later, and now LS offers a B2B SaaS product that can transform any website from a static display of content into an interactive experience, fully... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it possible. While the industry’s product has unique supply and demand characteristics, it is still an industry, with economic... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab

online streaming field with Otter Media, a joint venture with the Chernin Group. And industry observers agree that more acquisitions and partnerships in the years ahead will only accelerate the pace of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

month, reviewing the numbers. I learned a lot about medicine that way. Wasn't your husband also in the health-care industry at the time? Yes. Under a push for funding from President Nixon, there had started to be more research and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

environmental management, industrial policy, minerals management, and venture capital. A Trip Worth Taking In addition to the academic content of the conference, delegates were invited to a Cape Malay street... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2018
News

New Ways to Stay Connected

Women’s Leadership Accelerator in San Francisco this past March, where some 250 alumnae participated in a daylong program. Topics determined by the alumnae program committee included career pivots, social impact leadership, and how women investors are disrupting View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

years. "President Bush felt strongly about normalizing relations with China and opening that market to American business," says Franklin. "My mission to Beijing to reconvene the Joint Commission was a win-win situation. The sanction was lifted and a signal sent to U.S.... View Details

17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

most enjoyable and most challenging parts of making this film? “I have enjoyed almost every moment—from getting to work on something of great personal meaning, to mastering the nuts and bolts of a new industry (film). “Just launching the... View Details

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

companies and has a financial stake in Moderna.) There was a dollars-and-cents logic to this, since the big rewards that can be had in the pharmaceutical industry come with big financial risks. “There’s really no other View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

company in developing a new drug.” The case “E Ink in 2005” charts the multiple rounds of financing E Ink attracted over the years from a range of private investors, venture capital firms, and technology and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal

where his father eventually landed a job at a General Motors factory in Doraville. Stan O’Neal attended the General Motors Institute (which later became Kettering University), a co-op program where he alternated between studying engineering and View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Merrill Lynch; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

flexible schedule, the lack of appropriate role models in traditionally "male" industries, the impact of maternity leaves on promotion opportunities, and a realignment of ambitions after experiencing parenthood. Barbara A. Piette (MBA '86) worked in View Details