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- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
real business opportunity to invest in companies with high-growth potential and at least one woman in a leadership role that were being overlooked by the traditional VC community. Sometimes, in order to see an opportunity, you have to be... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
directory and survey of Europe's five hundred high-growth entrepreneurs and the issues that concern them. With a calendar still filled with speaking engagements and meetings, Twaalfhoven doesn't devote much time to his two favorite sports... View Details
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
young people and companies in need of skills. Year Up’s core program offers skills training and a six-month internship in high-growth fields like IT, Business Operations, and Finance. To date, the organization has helped connect over... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
with high-growth companies in northern California, Japan, and the Boston area, for example. "They're seizing opportunities to innovate and customize their academic program, share their own experiences and learning, and contribute to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
machine. The grace period afforded people the time to make significant investments like that. The second strand of our work is developing new ways to identify which borrowers have high-growth opportunities. Microfinance often operates in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
world-class advice and our partners getting the opportunity to develop their staff through exciting work with high-growth businesses in emerging markets.” Endeavor has created a new model for how nonprofits can assist for-profit... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
with them through initiatives such as the High-Growth Career Fair and the immensely popular "career treks" cosponsored by student clubs, which involve students in visits to high-tech companies in other cities. Career Services has also... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Optimize for people. Many variables will influence your career choices after HBS—geography, industry, function, company, manager, salary, equity, etc. Sometimes there are correlations between these variables, like high-growth companies... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
business opportunity. For example, in an equity spin-off, a diversified firm's businesses are split apart into independent entities, each with its own common stock. Spin-offs can make sense when a high-growth business is being held back... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
has dramatically reshaped the competitive landscape and the founders must decide between pursuing their high-growth strategy versus retrenching—including cutting costs and pulling out of their first international expansion that they had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
gate, currently working with all incubators in New Orleans as well as many high-growth companies," Wilkins notes. "I am also working with several organizations undergoing change management exercises that require a new way of thinking... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms whose founders received in-person advice from other entrepreneurs who varied in their managerial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
women colleagues from other universities — all noted authorities on entrepreneurial growth — began a collaborative research project in 1998 to tease out the underlying reasons for the disparity in enterprise size and growth rate. Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
high-growth beverage startups. Also, it is not clear to me why you are launching another product. Why not invest whatever capital you can get in driving amazing sell-through in one or two chains with some creative consumer marketing? And... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
businesses.10 Women business owners, even those who declared high-growth goals from the start, still lag men in their willingness to seek bank financing for their enterprises. In 2000, women-owned businesses claimed only 21 percent of the... View Details
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
being involved with high-growth ventures, working with entrepreneurs as investors or advisors, working in entrepreneurial environments that are dynamic, complex and changing, or even just cultivating your own Founder Mindset can benefit... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
whereas a high-growth business might be aiming for three times that, or more. Also consider the time horizon. Quarter-over-quarter earnings remain highly relevant for many sectors of many companies, but such measures are largely... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
co-founder, CFO, etc.—with a "significant equity position." The companies must be considered high-growth businesses, and indeed, aside from a whole-foods business, most were in traditionally fast-track fields such as technology,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
consulting giant McKinsey & Company, who coauthored the book The Winning Performance: How America’s High-Growth Midsize Companies Succeed. (Editor's note: Mr. Clifford passed away in August 2017.) “I long ago decided that the world has... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
makers or B2B service businesses, which is a growing segment. “Decisions we make over the next several years will influence large parts of our financial services systems.” Only a relatively tiny number of US small businesses are the View Details