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Awarded the 2016 Private Company Board of the Year by the National Association of Corporate Directors, New England Chapter, along with the other corporate directors of the Amica Mutual Insurance Company.... View Details

12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

Abstract This book presents new research on the historical impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile. The authors focus on the role of entrepreneurs and firms. The Role of Venture Capitalists in the Acquisition of Private View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

a private upstream-energy company in Houston. Within months, I discovered that principals were using raised funds for personal benefit. I resigned, even though the energy industry was in an economic downturn... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

His research probes the ways race and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. Damon Phillips: Hiring people with criminal records benefits companies and society We should more explicitly support people with... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

Amoruso poured herself into building the brand and developing relationships with her customers-typically the slightly edgy 18-24 year old. The company had grown since that time into a multi-category retailer, expanding into third-party... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established after the war. Located in Boston,... View Details

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By: Regina E. Herzlinger

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Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

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05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

pharma company founded by Darwazah’s father in 1978 and traces the evolution of its governance as a private family company, then as a publicly traded company listed on the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 21, 2007

Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsFinding the Right Job for Your Product Harvard Business School Note 607-028 Asserts that the typical ways that companies have learned to segment their markets, by product... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

Attend Rock Summer Fellows info session. JANUARY TERM Participate in Startup Bootcamp Go on Tech Club Treks to visit startups, VCs, and tech companies in different hotspots ( Tech Club , Health Care Club , Venture Capital & View Details

October 2019 (Revised December 2019)
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BC Partners: Acuris

By: Victoria Ivashina and Terrence Shu

This case follows Nikos Stathopoulos, Managing Partner of BC Partners, as he and his team evaluate the potential sale of one of BC Partners’ portfolio companies, Acuris. Acuris was a global financial intelligence, news, and data company that had been acquired by BC... View Details

Keywords: Fund Management; Fund Raising; Leveraged Buyout; Buyout; Portfolio Management; Operations Improvement; Exit; Exit Strategy; Valuation Ratios; Finance; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Operations; Performance Improvement; Acquisition; Valuation

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15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Science. Vol. 1, edited by Susan S. Silbey, 367-398. England: Ashgate Publishing, Limited, 2008 Abstract During the past 15 years, new biotechnology companies have promoted DNA typing as a sophisticated criminal and paternity... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

profitability, Japan introduced the JPX400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. Index-inclusion incentives led firms to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food... View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Lecturer of Business Administration Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities portfolio at Harvard Management... View Details

09 Mar 2015
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

must wrestle with the downsides of that, too," says Weiss. "On an individual basis, it might seem OK to say this rule doesn't make sense, so we won't follow it, but at what point does this practice become a problem?" One View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Judges - Alumni

expertise with a start-up owner mindset and a bias toward action and outcomes. A trusted partner and “first call” to entrepreneurs, Tina currently serves on the boards of Arrae, August, and Dae. Tina is uniquely fluent across the languages of public and View Details

17 Jun 2017
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Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

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