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- 21 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion
President of Auditory Insight, a boutique management consultancy focused exclusively on hearing healthcare. We partner with senior leaders of device and biopharma hearing healthcare companies to develop successful commercialization strategies. We also consult to...
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- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
communicate complex and at times dry subject matter clearly, simply, and with homespun charm,” recalls Mencoff, who went on to become a founding partner and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Climate Change
On Sunday, 300,000 activists took to the streets of New York for the People's Climate March, the biggest climate protest in history, and the United Nations on Tuesday held the Climate Summit. In the spirit of Climate Week, we present insights from members of the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) (photo via LinkedIn) Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) (photo via LinkedIn) It was building spreadsheets as an HBS intern at a private equity firm that convinced Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003)...
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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any capital market benefits observed for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
portfolio stock return regressions we find that firms with good performance on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms with poor performance on these issues, suggesting that investments...
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Sean Silverthorne
Robert A. Pinkerton II
Pinkerton grew his grandfather's private investigating firm into a large security services company, providing such new services as event security, jewel thief investigation, and industrial building security....
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Services
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Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) - Course Catalog
Financial Management of Smaller Firms (FMSF), 1452. Enrollment by application only: Students enrolled in FMSF will learn more about the application steps from faculty in fall. This course teaches specific practical skills that are...
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- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
There may be a simple solution to the complex problem of climate change. Don Wiviott (MBA 1984) is cofounder and partner of Sustainable Farm Partners (SFP), a combination farming operation and private equity group that is buys...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
New on the Web at Alumni Career Services
point of readiness, the Alumni Career Services Web site provides a range of useful resources and programs. Men and women interested in serving on public or private boards also have a new résumé database designed to help them connect with...
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- 24 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Nancy Huang (HBS ’96), Director of Outreach, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Describe your organization in three to five sentences. The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
C. D. (“Dick”) Spangler, Jr., a Harvard Business School alumnus (MBA 1956) well known and admired for his many notable achievements in both the public and private sectors, his visionary leadership and generous philanthropy, and his...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
group, Connell gained 85 percent ownership of the industrial companies with a leveraged buyout that created the Connell Limited Partnership. Last year, the four firms remaining in the Partnership accounted for revenues of more than $1...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
the form of budget deficits, competition from other states, and coordination with central government policies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu /b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707008 Vignettes on Governance of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2023
- News
Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science
Ernesto Bertarelli (right) joins HMS Dean George Q. Daley and Harvard University President-elect Claudine Gay on the HMS campus in the courtyard of Building C, which will be enclosed to create a new skylighted atrium, thanks to a philanthropic gift from the Bertarelli...
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- March 2019
- Supplement
KITEA (B): Getting Ready to Face IKEA
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in September 2015, when IKEA is about to open its first store in Morocco. It then chronicles the efforts of KITEA CEO Amine Benkirane and his son Othman between 2013 and 2015 to prepare KITEA for IKEA’s entry. After incurring losses for the first time in...
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Retail;
KITEA;
IKEA;
Furniture;
Furniture Industry;
Entry Strategy;
Responding To Entry;
Localization;
Competitive Interaction;
Private Sector;
For-Profit Firms;
Business Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Adaptation;
Corporate Strategy;
Business Model;
Market Entry and Exit;
Retail Industry;
Morocco;
Africa;
North Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "KITEA (B): Getting Ready to Face IKEA." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-421, March 2019.
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
Public Option would be run by private insurers but pay Medicare’s prices to providers. “We propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and...
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- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
a private equity firm focused on the North American energy sector with $15 billion in funds. “We’d walk in the woods and think how amazing it was that this kind of geography still exists in New York.” So...
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- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
a higher price without raising its multiple. If the private equity firm wins the bidding contest, the profit model subsequently becomes a blueprint for managing the turnaround company and aligning company...
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Martha Lagace
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Resources for Harvard Economics Students
and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. An active account can be used to download the Capital IQ excel...
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