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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Game On

Here at the Pickleball Club, founder and CEO Brian McCarthy (MBA 1972) is making a big bet that his model—a private club, with high-end amenities and a community organized around the sport—will have what it takes to stay in the game for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Stakeholder Relations (4) Business or Company Management (19) COVID-19 (127) Capital Markets (13) Capital Structure (1) Capital (65) Cash Flow (1) Cash (2) Central Banking (2) Change Management (67) Change (116) Civil Society or Community... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Ranjay Gulati talks to Tynan about her learning journey, and how she managed the risks of entrepreneurship while aiming to make a lasting impact. Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the Hard Calls John Chen was hired to save an iconic smartphone View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

  Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
  • Case

NOWaccount

By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t come to his post with an activist agenda, yet when law enforcement officials began pressuring the company to hand over iPhone users’ data without their permission, Cook took what he believed was a moral stance to... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 12 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

building to 1,500 employers, 146,000 job seekers, and $3 million in investments from Midwest- and Rocky Mountain-based venture capital firms. Blakeman’s product should have a natural path to expansion by helping companies meet diversity,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment
  • October 1998 (Revised December 1999)
  • Case

Lockheed Martin IMS: Making a Contribution and a Profit

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Courtney Purrington
Examines Lockheed Martin's attempt to move from its traditional reliance on defense/aerospace contracts into providing outsourced government services in the social sector. The protagonist reflects on the past 24 years of rapid growth in the company and the myriad... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Partners and Partnerships; Diversification; Performance Effectiveness; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Welfare; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Privatization; Strategic Planning; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • March 2005 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Aguas Argentinas: Settling a Dispute

By: Louis T. Wells Jr. and Alexandra de Royere
The French-owned Aguas Argentinas faces a demand from the Argentine government that it renegotiate its concession to operate the Buenos Aires water and sewage services. The company must decide whether to continue with efforts to settle on a new contract or to exercise... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Contracts; Infrastructure; Privatization; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Business Strategy; Utilities Industry; France; Buenos Aires
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  • 12 Feb 2024
  • News

Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award

excelled, earning an internship with Senator Edward Kennedy, and later graduating with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. After graduating from MIT, he joined McKinsey & Company as one of the first MIT graduates to be hired as... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • News

A Wide Net

Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 06 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

Yes, the context is very challenging today. But challenges create opportunities. If gaining access to capital is hard, sometimes that means there will be fewer competitors. This period is almost the antithesis of the Internet bubble when everyone could raise money and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

become something more." What every entrepreneur knows: "A great idea is not enough." Business leader worth emulating: Lou Gerstner (MBA '65), IBM. "He transformed a giant corporation, but beyond that, he is leading a pathbreaking contribution by his View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 07 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 7

industry, had begun to operate in an increasingly privatized environment.) At the center of the new model was a series of "vision workshops"-structured conversations in which employees at all levels of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business History - Faculty & Research

Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Key concepts: Business and Society, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Leadership Patagonia's change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust... View Details
  • Profile

Thomaz Galvao

venture they are incubating in the i-lab. “Our country has one of the highest unemployment rates in the Americas,” Thomaz explains. “There are significant gaps between supply and demand for job occupations: companies can’t find people... View Details
  • October 2011 (Revised November 2011)
  • Case

Verengo Solar Plus!

By: William A. Sahlman, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Liz Kind
In the three years since Bishop and Button purchased Verengo in a leveraged buyout (LBO), the company had gone through dramatic changes. Initially a residential windows and insulation firm, after the economic recession of 2008 the company switched gears and began... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Growth Management; Restructuring; Renewable Energy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Product Development; Energy Industry; California
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

surveys spanning HBS MBA indicate that 30% of alumni currently work in a firm that they founded, 46% have launched at least one company in their careers, and 31% intend to start a firm in the future. Among the founders, 36% launched their... View Details