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- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a ten-year, three-phase growth plan. The company aimed to be profitable by 2016. Management worked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
beyond the bottom line, and so we need to have all that data ready to sort of slowly move that that oil tanker around. >Hi, I'm Georgia Zocca (GMP 23) from the General Management Program in 2017. My question is, if we want to invest in... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
“Reimaging Capitalism” into practice by helping funds build investing strategies and philosophy around how they evaluate potential investments via a series of ESG ratings. I’m currently organizing a teach-in for the company management to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a new business for Xerox out of... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Julia Kirynova, CEO of Smart Holding; Volodymyr Kostiuk, Executive Director of Farmak; Andrei Pivovarsky, Managing Director of WOG Holding BV; and Arina Korchmaryov, VP North America Business Group of Cotecna. MARCH 28 Ukraine: The... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the venture capital industry who were on... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
challenges: selecting the mostworthy recipients of funding, relying on young organizations to implementideas, and being accountable to the third party whose funds they areinvesting. They identify relevant venture capital practices — such ashelping View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is the newest addition to the growing portfolio of innovation facilities on Western Avenue in Allston, joining the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), which opened in 2011, and the Harvard Launch Lab, a start-up... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Academy of Management Journal Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—How do teams working on complex projects get the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and connection to living wage work opportunities, pointed him... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
leaves a set of information-rich trades by "opportunistic" insiders that contain all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic traders yields value-weighted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
support to each other.” That ongoing, dynamic network of support among the first alumnae of the program, says Frei, has become the foundation of a larger role for the Women on Boards course in the future. “I think we will eventually have an Executive Education View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly, scale can be an asset, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD, targeted at impeding selective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
managers and recruiters are questioning conventional business education. Their concerns? Among other things, MBA programs aren't giving students the heightened cultural awareness and global perspectives they need. Newly minted MBAs lack... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Career Coach
Sasha Grinshpun
Sasha (HBS '02) combines her gift for quickly gauging life passions of HBSers with her experience in formulating effective job searches for them to score their dream jobs. Her eclectic background spanning consulting, design thinking, and entrepreneurial ventures puts... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
digitalization and data science and artificial intelligence are deployed as management and business tools,” Lakhani explains. And that means HBS needs to think differently, too. Enter the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
be a competitive, winner-take-all market? If so, then scaling quickly becomes important. Assuming Saga feels ready, and that now is the time in which to scale quickly, they should consider building the resources to have a portfolio of... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
17 other executives of color from leading Massachusetts corporations. Pursuing an innovative, state-focused approach, the fund specifically targets Black- and brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities.... View Details