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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
managing inventory levels and sales and ultimately save customers money while improving their own margins. “Two sides in this sort of negotiation will always differ on price,” Sebenius observes. “However, if... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Author:Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Executive Counsel 7, no. 1 (February/March 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the Article: http://www.executivecounsel.info/v7/i1/lessons-from-the-crisis-about-governing-financial-institutions/ Multinationals Make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Tales Out of School
kids after school. Children need quality after-school activities." After completing her White House service in 1995, Hoit became managing director of Sylvan Learning Systems, a national supplemental education company. With that experience... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Extending Opportunity: Brock Family Fellowship
Tess Reeder and Jane Brock-Wilson Growing up in Indiana, Jane Brock-Wilson (MBA 1983) never considered going to Harvard. After studying industrial management at Purdue, she moved to the Boston area to take a job at Raytheon. When her boss... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
other locations. “I enjoyed having pieces in places where I spent so much of my time,” says van Caldenborgh, who employed an art staff at Caldic to manage exhibits. “The art also set an image for our company and became a company-wide... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Management Journal The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
Summing Up Responses to the question, "Is this the decade of the investor?" offer little hope that the investor will get any relief soon, compared to the rewards realized by managers and customers. Nor do they hold out much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
through direct ads or referrals by early adopters who post about their services. “Their way to capture clients is through viral acquisition,” says Viceira. Lastly, fintech firms save costs by outsourcing money View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
The COVID-19 pandemic has battered industries around the world, but one sector's prospects aren’t so bleak: venture capital. Startup backers—and private-equity managers in general—say that half of their portfolio companies haven’t been... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
business." "The statistics are correct," said Raj Kapoor (HBS MBA '96), managing director at Mayfield, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. "It's an extremely hit-driven business that's becoming more... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
A young currency trader knocks politely on a conference room door at Kingdon Capital Management Corp. (KCMC), a Manhattan-based hedge fund. Her boss, KCMC's founder and president Mark Kingdon, invites her in with a friendly nod. "The... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
managing call centers for insurance companies but wanted to switch from telephonic to face-to-face service, so I decided to focus on restaurants. I spent the first year at HBS researching the industry and settled on desserts. They are the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
long haul? The essays in this bilingual volume discuss this question in four interrelated themes: polities, social transformations, wealth and well-being, and culture, belief, and practice. The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is View Details
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
It's better to look good than to feel good. That was the observation of Billy Crystal's SNL character Fernando, and it seems to be born out in two articles from this year's most popular list. In The Manager in the Red Shoes, we learn that... View Details
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
the problem can be curtailed if studios adopt a multipart strategy. Key concepts include: Despite a thriving movie industry in India, Hollywood studios have experienced difficulty making much money there. Researchers discovered a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
strategies prompted by a changing climate with the help of a panel of four HBS alumni with expertise in finance and energy, including Hui Wen Chan (MBA 2010), Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008), View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management... View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
employer,” the researchers write. However, their work experience gives them greater bargaining power to pursue positions they would prefer. In normal times, startup employees and managers who are drawn to young firms are often willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
pro-environmental policies are money savers and the key to her company’s continued success, Yang says. More Retail Revolutions Recycling the Consignment Shop Bigger than the local consignment shop and easier than eBay, thredUP, cofounded... View Details