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Michael Maples

were just not set up to fund a $1 million financing round, so I just started investing my own money in some of these companies,” Maples said. His first investment was a podcasting startup named Odeo, which later became Twitter. His... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52122 January 2017 Strategic Finance Managing Healthcare Costs and Value By: Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, and Mark L. Frigo Abstract—Rising health care costs are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2024
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The Making of a Streaming Sensation

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

another EMR company offered eCW the chance to grow quickly in an industry that is estimated to take in more than $40 billion in overall revenues in 2007. But this acquisition would require outside financing of some sort. Was this the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

and moving to the cloud to better financing options, benefits needs, and leadership issues. Many of the solutions have come from experts (from companies like HP, Staples, GoDaddy, and Intuit) who have appeared in SBD’s publications, who... View Details
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

level of sustainable growth. The Report has been developed by Vietnam's Central Institute for Economic Management and the Singapore-based Asia Competitiveness Institute upon the request of Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai. View the... View Details
  • 2021
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Accounting for Product Impact in the Water Utilities Industry

By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the water utilities industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates of water... View Details
Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Water; Utilities; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Framework; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Utilities Industry
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  • 15 Jun 2010
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Natural Causes

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: Collusion may become easier as market concentration falls, and market entry may in fact facilitate collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

previously lived outside India rely significantly more on diaspora networks for business leads and financing. This is especially true for entrepreneurs who are based outside software hubs—where getting leads to new businesses and accessing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

investors speculate, even mild diagnostic distortions generate substantial bubbles. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55653 Relative Performance Transparency: Effects on Sustainable Choices By: Buell,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2021
  • Supplement

Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science. ... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Cash Flow; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Brands and Branding; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; United States; California
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  • 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall

precisely what Enron lacked in its governance practices: Sustained attention to the qualitative objectives and ethical standards of the organization; Balanced incentives that reward and penalize results other than economic performance;... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • June 2010 (Revised July 2011)
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China Environment Fund: Doing Well by Doing Good

By: Christopher Marquis and Nancy Dai
In early 2010, cleantech investment pioneer Tsing Capital was planning for the China Environment Fund IV and considering how to maintain its commitment to social and environmental practices. Tsing Capital embraced its philosophy of "Doing Well by Doing Good" and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Strategy; Balance and Stability; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Business Organization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; China
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  • 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

both communities and businesses in the coming decades, HBS professors are making a significant contribution to the urban recovery movement. Building Sustainable Communities Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on... View Details
Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate
  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

same quality as for financial information. A further challenge is that the cultures of the finance function and those who work in sustainability are very different. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jan 2002
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Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

different markets with different customers and employ different business models than those traditionally successful in the established organization, they are typically undervalued by that organization. Managers refuse to provide the necessary View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

while more equal ones dislike competitive groups and do not necessarily respect them as competent. Unequal societies may need ambivalence for system stability: income inequality compensates groups with partially positive social images. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20sommers.pdf   Working PapersSustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? Authors:Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul Abstract Two trends are likely to define the 21st century: threats... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne