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  • February 1999 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

JAFCO America Ventures, Inc.: Building A Venture Capital Firm

By: Walter Kuemmerle, Kiichiro Kobayashi and Chad S Ellis
JAFCO, a large Japanese venture capital firm, is making a second attempt to enter the U.S. venture capital market. The U.S. subsidiary, JAFCO America Ventures, is in the midst of a challenging turnaround. Going forward, the U.S. subsidiary's leadership needs to make a... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Market Entry and Exit; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 26 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
  • August 1998 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

FairMarket, Inc.: Where Buyers and Sellers Connect

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jack Wieland and Chad M. M Raube
On February 20, 1997, FairMarket, an Internet-based business-to-business auction site, was launched. CEO, founder Scott Randall, drew on his experience building Internet businesses at NECX Direct, Yahoo, and Internet Shopping Network to build his business. This case,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Debates; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Management Style; Product Launch; Multi-Sided Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • Web

Africa - Global Activities 2020

with a unique opportunity to support the career goals of our graduates. In pursuing their dreams, the recipients of this fellowship are making an important impact on the African continent. We are grateful to be able to support them in their efforts.” View Details
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • News

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”

Baker Library) and accessed with the DECmate housed in a VT100 terminal cabinet. At first I was envisioning Doris and Val at their Decmates inputting all the data for some 38,000 alumni, but no, the keypunched cards allowed alumni data to be digitized. The data went... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's... View Details
Keywords: Performance Improvement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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  • 21 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 14 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Making the MBA Degree More Accessible

of color prior to enrolling at HBS. These commitments, explained Chad Losee, managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, were identified through extensive research with external subject experts and continued conversations with... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

activities, as well as supporting economic data. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512017-PDF-ENG Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (A) Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Case 312-034 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • News

Finding Common Ground

photo by Chad Kirkland Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) and his family were regular supporters of clothing and blanket drives for shelters in their Salt Lake City community. But, like many well-intentioned people who are moved by the outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Note 311-020 Under the U.S. Patent Act, a patent owner has a statutory right to exclude others from engaging in the unauthorized production, use, sale, or importation of a patented... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

entrepreneurs such as Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book “an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.” A past recipient of the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 27 May 2014
  • News

Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

Dilemma" in Harvard Business Review. Editorial Counsel Tom Hulme (MBA 2007, OpenIDEO), Professor Karim Lakhani, Professor Gautam Mukunda, Michael Raynor (BDA 2000), Professor William Sahlman Working Team Stephanie Goff (HBS Alumni Relations), View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Case Study: Inside Story

Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to Lin’s sense of self, but they were... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

investor. He co-founded the Fish Sauce podcast, which shares the stories of AAPI founders and investors, and advises USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering and Harvard founder programs. Chad Laurans MBA ’06, Harvard University; BS,... View Details
  • 29 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 29

International Christopher M. Gordon and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Case 212-056 Dirigo International is proposing a major expansion of their life sciences research and manufacturing facilities in the heart of a major city and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

has not escaped the star power portability problem. Wide receiver Chad Ochocino has suffered a performance decline since being traded to the Patriots from the Cincinnati Bengals last summer. Regarding baseball, Groysberg cites a study... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sinmazdemir Abstract—Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sınmazdemir Abstract— Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

commitments. Second, depletion of existing natural resources means firms will have to develop resources in increasingly remote locations subject to higher levels of sovereign risk such as Chad and Azerbaijan. And finally, the combination... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services