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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive Financials 5 Year Summary From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials 5... View Details

10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

benefit from mimicking the showroom concepts started by online-first retailers and why online-first retailers can benefit from opening more traditional stores. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54316 March 29, 2018 Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2020
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Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy

also very helpful for building name recognition on campus. Connect with Student Clubs: There is an active Energy & Environment Club on campus eager to hear from companies working or investing in this... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

their co-workers was avoiding exercise, they’d be tempted to slack too. No matter if they knew that some of their other peers were working out constantly. "People's activity levels tended to converge to the lowest-performing members of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Industries: financial analytical data and tools

Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Print resources: Mergerstat Review Check Harvard availability
Ref. HD 2741 .M48 in the Stamps Reading Room Annual publication with data... View Details

14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

the process of decoupling. Decoupling is the separation of two or more activities ordinarily done in conjunction by consumers-think of watching TV shows and sitting through the ads. These new digital disruptors allow consumers to benefit... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Scaling Technology Ventures Course Number 1788 Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Rayport Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam or Project Career Focus Scaling Technology Ventures (STV) is designed for students who aspire to found, join, or View Details

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Rowan Clarke

randomly assigned to receive development funding and others that served as controls,” he explains. By analyzing the impact of investment on both the recipient business and the surrounding economy, researchers hope to better understand how... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club

In 1995, Joseph L. Loughran (MBA '83) volunteered to be the government activities luncheon coordinator for the HBS Club of Washington, D.C. "Little did I know what was in store for me," he jokes. Loughran, a Pennsylvania native, is now... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the article "Scientific... View Details

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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment

Event MBA During a 3-day weekend this spring, Energy & Environment Club members went on a whirlwind trip to Iceland. Each day was packed with activities and learning planned by Lucy Oyer (MBA 2024), 2023-2024 E&E Club President, and Ian... View Details

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

unfavorable expectations face an additional constraint: their prices and first-party content investment need to be such that low (zero) participation equilibria are eliminated. This additional constraint typically leads them to View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 1999
News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

and the school year, advising clients as well as evaluating mid-cap companies for Monitor Clipper Partners, the company's LBO investment arm. "I learned how to juggle and prioritize lots of activities from... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Mar 2014
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Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

Initiative (SEI), they did just that. "Even the funding broke new ground," notes former SEI director Laura Moon. "John Whitehead provided staged investments based on meeting certain milestones. We now call that venture philanthropy." The... View Details

Keywords: SEI

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

with a lot of turbulence: "a very dramatic run off" of activity in the 1980s, followed by a decline in activity that led to a depression for much of the early 1990s, followed by a gradual recovery... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Mar 2005
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Campaign Passes Goal, Continues

people assume that because HBS is well endowed, annual gifts don’t matter as much. The fact is these unrestricted funds help the School launch new activities like our research centers overseas,” said Salter. Last year, 30 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Oct 2002
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Bozidar Djelic

two or three days a week on the road, out in the countryside, having direct contact with citizens. I attend local council meetings, talk with entrepreneurs, visit trade unions — I've intervened to stop about eighteen strikes; that's become something of a specialty. All... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call

of personality, coupled with the leadership of his successor, a former investment banker, extraordinary structural changes were made in the Seattle system. Nielsen retired from the school board in 2001 but remains View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

06 Dec 2017
Blog Post

The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

from tech giants Tencent (China) and Paytm (India) along with speakers active in Africa as well as Latin America, thus offering a true worldview of the technology and start-up landscape outside of the U.S. The panel was intended to fuel... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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