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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
course of history—and their own lives. The Captain, Linda and the Tiger Shark: Their Love Was His Armor by Carlos M. Lago (MBA 1977) Mill City Press A novel about love almost lost to the sea—and what lurks within. Fintech, Small Business... View Details
Richard W. Sears
After having much success selling a small order of watches he had come across while working as a telegrapher, Sears entered the merchandising business full time and devoted his business to rural, relatively poor farmers. Though Sears was... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
entertainment player, but it changed the viewing habits of millions of watchers. In this Cold Call Podcast, Anita Elberse discusses her case study on the impact of this pioneering series and the small production View Details
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- Career Coach
Christina LaMontagne
Christina (HBS '09, Dartmouth '03) has held senior roles across innovative healthcare companies. She has led small digital health companies to achieve market leadership and >$100M ARR and has helped... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reawakening rural America
Jack Schultz (MBA 1976) founded Agracel, an industrial development firm, to boost the economies of rural America in places such as Teutopolis, Illinois, the small farming hamlet where he grew up. The Effingham, Illinois-based View Details
- 6 PM – 8 PM EST, 01 Feb 2016
Alumnae Circles Open House: Boston
Women's groups are launching- are you interested?
Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
keep up, he said, they create the potential for a disrupter to take hold: to fill a ready niche and quietly, over time, expand and invade the market. And as each company gets big and successful, it loses its ability to pursue View Details
- Career Coach
Ryan Kim
Ryan (HBS '02, Harvard College '95) is particularly interested in helping students and alumni find balance and meaning in their career choices. Throughout his adult life, he has attempted to balance divergent personal and career interests and is still on that journey.... View Details
- Profile
Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
with the broad connections of international field work. In her internship, Tuce will work with a Colombian nonprofit that connects MBA students with small or start-up companies looking for expert advice. “I... View Details
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
the traditional path is to succeed in school, find an entry-level job at a reputable company and then climb the corporate ladder by working long, grueling hours. The job is a lifetime commitment and your success is tied inextricably to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
On December 6, four firms became the first recipients of the Porter Prize, a new award that recognizes innovation in Japanese companies. Matsui Securities Co., Ltd., and Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd., were named the winners in the single-business View Details
Keywords: awards
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
in technology, serving in senior leadership roles in Latin America at SAP and Facebook. However, his entrepreneurial story started years earlier with his family business. “My dad had a small manufacturing View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where... View Details
- 05 Oct 2022
- News
Inside the Chip Shortage
says, adding that demand will continue to grow for applications in cars, robots, manufacturing, and health care. Semiconductors are the tools that make it possible to process data, which makes them foundational to modern technology. Most are manufactured by a View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
Big companies have the power to convince or compel their partners to participate, and to shortcut negotiations by simply dictating terms. Amazon and eBay have both done brilliant work with Web services to open up their IT infrastructures... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the company received for its Series C round. The case then describes iyzico’s origins and provides a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Management Consulting: Build a List
href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/capitaliq.html" title="Capital IQ">Capital IQ (Individual account required) Once in Capital IQ, Mouse over Screening Tab and click on Companies. To screen by geographic location, scroll down to View Details
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
respondents concerned the misuse of such techniques. As Tom Henkel put it, "I'm sure the same companies that wasted time and money on poorly designed surveys and focus groups will engage in similarly misguided neuroscience and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
in the Parliament of Victoria, has the data to back that up, too. According to the agency’s most recent report card, which looks at pandemic-era employment between April 2020 and March 2021 in private companies with 100 or more employees,... View Details