Public And Private Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2003
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A Casual Approach to Success

to Hellman & Friedman, LLC, the well-respected private equity investment firm he cofounded (with Tully Friedman) in 1984. Hellman is one of the Bay Area’s most successful investment bankers, generous philanthropists, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 Oct 2018
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Building Paths to Success

southeast Australia, with supportive, attentive parents who created opportunities for success. His dad was the first in four generations to attend college and he worked as the high school principal. “We were very involved in the local... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

Indian Industry, which represents over 5,000 companies from India's private and public sectors. In that role in 1994-95, he chaired a blue-ribbon committee of twenty CEOs who... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

bakery cranks out cookies—New York now holds a demonstrable lead over Silicon Valley in terms of fintech investment in the United States. According to CB Insights, a New York startup that uses algorithms to collect and analyze data on... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

of business in Africa.” That thought led to the launch of Young African MBAs (YAM). “What started off as a small networking group quickly grew to a registered organization with over 2,000 members,” says Igun, who was born in Nigeria View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

Teaching Commission, a nonprofit organization that seeks to change how public school teachers are trained and compensated. A longtime activist for education reform, Gerstner is... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Addressing The Financial Security Gap

initiative helps organizations create short-term financial stability for vulnerable workers and communities. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

entrepreneurship that has led me to identify and pursue a wide range of opportunities throughout my career." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "No matter what kind of organization you lead, remember that you can't... View Details

12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

insulated, eco-friendly composite tile, enabling electrical interconnection and assembly with other tiles via “plug & play” connectors. Crossover Energy is an energy services company, helping organizations... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

a virus the company had not seen before and start the timer. Bancel was eager for the chance to show off the company’s agility. The organizations settled on the spring of 2020 for this “outbreak”; the first... View Details

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

01 Apr 2000
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Books

and professor Josh Lerner draw on their extensive research on venture capital organizations to illuminate the workings of this important industry. In a series of interpretative essays, the book expands on... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

30 Apr 2019
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Leading Schools That Change Lives

schools in Africa a hard sell. “After Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, there was a lot of instability on Wall Street,” he notes. But by partnering in-country with Rwandan educators, government officials, and View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Dec 2008
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Designing Change

know.” The goal of presenting Muzak as a hip, unified entity is complicated by the firm’s structure as an organization composed of company-owned and independent affiliates, many of which use different,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2013
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Climate Change as Must-See TV

where he wrote Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap between Science and Action. "To get action," he says, "we must build public pressure, even a social movement; we... View Details

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

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

look like when she was an investment banker. Originally from Los Angeles, Clarke is a “triple-winner” at Harvard, having earned her undergraduate, law, and business degrees from the University. While interest in such areas as... View Details