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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
poverty, education, and infant mortality rates, the ARC and the word salad of state and local agencies that it funds have failed to redress the enduring social and economic problems faced by communities like Harlan. So when Marietta... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Boveri (now ABB) and Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) in Switzerland; Degussa-Hüls in Germany; Bombardier in Canada; and Bendix, Bond International Gold, Carter Hawley Hale, Ecolab, General Cinema, Growth Fund of America, Harcourt General, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to invest all that money? Typically we’ll invest a new fund over a three-year period, and then go out and raise our next fund. Accel IX, which we started investing in January 2005, is very much focused on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research.... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
the importance of delivering a consistent message to different stakeholders, and the risks and rewards of introducing external financial information into a firm's planning and operations activities. Martha Lagace: What important themes do the 2 cases View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
economists—had foreseen. The crisis raises questions about how competently financial institutions, such as mutual funds, managed their global capital investments. It raises questions about how effective the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
hospital, considers which organizational structure will help them adjust to the changing health sector environment. The move from global budget to activity-based funding has led his and many other public hospitals to suffer losses in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
number of missions that could be funded within a given budget, while reducing the negative impact of a failure. In the case of the Mars program, this meant no more funding for big, complex, billion-plus... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Valley, California, Western Technology Investment (WTI) specialized in a hybrid form of debt and equity financing for early-stage companies. Like traditional venture capital and private equity firms, WTI raised View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
the most rational question in the world to ask is, is business playing a positive role here? If not, why not? And how can it? April White: Lisa, you've raised a lot of really important issues that business can be engaged in, but we're... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
the country. When I first went to Yamhill, I just assumed that people there were a little bit more easygoing. I assumed that they had such a great life because they had many, many acres of land which, you know, when you’re born and raised... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
to friends and family to help them raise cash, and if they were really lucky, they would attract the interest of wealthy families such as the Rockefellers and the Whitneys. A mere handful of VCs were doing deals on the East and West... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
effective funding unattributed messages rather than speaking out themselves,” the researchers conclude in their paper. As for the potential effect on Apple’s bottom line, Cook’s CEO activism increased consumers’ overall intent to buy... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(MBA 2006) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Maier discusses how modern Russian mothers are raising their children today. She interviewed hundreds of mothers and found some common elements, placing modern Russian mothers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
from college than middle-class and affluent kids. PELP demonstrates the immediate impact of a class gift. Funded by the 40th Reunion gift from the HBS Class of 1963, PELP was launched in 2003 to see if HBS could help narrow the urban... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Langford says of this particular moment in time when the government, foundations, and the media are all focused on the opioid crisis. “We’ve raised the temperature on this issue. Now we’ve gotta move, gotta move, gotta move.” Back in... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
AT&T joined Coca-Cola as an announced partner, and live testing of UPromise's service began. The company still confronted the formidable difficulties of putting an extremely complex business on line and enrolling consumers through its partners. But the fact that it... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg