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- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
director. "We still do about 100 deals a year," and have averaged about $300 million over the last three years. Intel has also kept a broad presence internationally, with investment professionals in twenty-five countries, McCall... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811065-PDF-ENG Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A) Bill George and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 411-009 Daniel Kim was considering "blowing the whistle" on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing startup where Kim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
decade, money from around the world has poured into the United States. Despite massive investments, when adjusted for inflation, U.S. GDP grew slowly, with much of the growth from professional and business services—including real estate,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University Professorship, the highest View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
March 4, Harvard Business School gathered senior executives, risk experts, and leading investment professionals from some of the world’s largest asset managers to share how they’re approaching these complex questions. The conference,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
harder investment concept to explain and perhaps justify, but the return on investment is just as real. US analogies include adding seatbelts in cars to save lives, developing medicines for chronic diseases to avoid illnesses, and carrying an expensive backup... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
private sector organizations and on how such partnerships can be most effective. Exploring Obstacles to and Opportunities for Professional Success among Ethnic Minority Medical Students Authors:K. Odom, L. Morgan Roberts, R. Johnson, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
professional and professor. Reliable innovation is "a weird concept," Austin admits. "Reliability in business is about things aimed at consistency of outcome. Reliable innovation means something more like a consistent... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
413-031 Talking Strategy at Greighton Partners Since its inception, London-based private equity firm Greighton Partners had managed over $15 billion in investor capital. The firm employed about 150 professionals around the globe and had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
opportunity for the HBS MBA program. The case presents data on the HBS MBA program, including career and professional development statistics so that students are able to assess the cost of receiving an HBS MBA, and they are able to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
described, along with efforts to professionalize sourcing/pricing and product management functions. The case closes with questions about how Chegg should respond to the pending transition from printed textbooks to electronic textbooks.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
members have the potential to speak up about important issues, but a growing body of research suggests that they often remain silent instead, out of fear of negative personal and professional consequences. In this chapter, we draw on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
managers are being held to higher standards when it comes to justifying customer investments. We foresee the need for marketing professionals to develop even greater analytical skill as the field continues to evolve. This should be a very... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
control and the growth of professional management seen in the United States. That debate continues. But this book does report compelling research that shows that, historically, family ownership and management in many countries has been a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
fulfillment). Finally, learning and growth synergies would be achieved by rotating experienced professionals to key jobs in the new companies (key staff rotation), by sharing computer systems (common systems versus plan) and knowledge... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
responsible for the advancement of women in their professional service firms discussed what they saw happening in their day-to-day roles as promoters of women within their organizations. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Jennifer Allyn said her... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
resulted in a new diagnosis. Approximately 30 percent of those diagnoses were for "high priority" conditions, as defined by professional standards. Q: How likely are physicians to prescribe a name brand that the patient... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman