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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitability will come with a venture-fueled increase in scale can also lead to the all-too-familiar scenario in which a startup exhausts its capital without ever achieving sustainable growth. Emphasizing profitability and financial... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
GAAP can wind up in jail or pay hefty fines. Its accounting principles are derived from an exhaustive public process overseen by experts in measurement, not like the stakeholders of present “transparency” who are interested in protecting... View Details
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
embarrassing, and exhausting battling in court, a judge awarded George's branch with 50.5 percent of the company's shares. The judge also wisely mandated a shareholder agreement (unfortunately with a buyout mechanism that was not very... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
or share (e.g., money, luxury, networks, social capital) if we’re really going to “make a difference in the world.” Many of our Black classmates and friends are exhausted by having to engage in protest and mourning every time a Black... View Details
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
Rule Five: Face The Music Finally, many judo strategists begin with good intentions but end up exhausting their resources on losing battles—especially in the Internet era, as new technologies and competitors create better ways to compete.... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
athlete was an incredible experience that I will cherish forever, but I was exhausted for most of it. And while I developed study strategies and time management skills, it was a steep learning curve. Coming into college, I wish I had been... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is finally becoming profitable, the two remaining founders are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
evaluation of the ideas introduced to see if any of the business models could be applied to a different vertical. That allowed us to be exhaustive in our options and would also ensure that the best industry for the idea could be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
River. The people were watching a German shepherd dog out in the water, in a hole in the ice, struggling to get some traction to get up onto solid ice. Fred and I continued on our way to I cannot recall where, and when we returned it was evident that the dog was just... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
modeling he did, the work he accomplished in a short time was exceptional. “Eric did exhaustive research and talked to every single person on the team,” said Dzodan. “The financial model he created was exactly accurate for 9 months (until... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
exhaust gases. The further hope is that regular traffic will move faster, also reducing tangible air pollution. These benefits matter to the people and to the government of Senegal. They have quantified the reduction in health care costs... View Details
- Blog
How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America
it was also mentally exhausting to do them all over such a short period," explained Cal. "But when we shifted to Zoom, we had time to think between interviews. We could request a second interview. For example, we could more easily go back... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
modeling he did, the work he accomplished in a short time was exceptional. “Eric did exhaustive research and talked to every single person on the team,” said Dzodan. “The financial model he created was exactly accurate for 9 months (until... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
damage was done, and he came out ahead financially. I've also seen project opponents file frivolous appeals to drag out the approval process in hopes of exhausting the developer. It's disheartening to hear how parties rationalize such... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Upton, the days of installing a system, letting it languish over time until it becomes dysfunctional, and then undertaking a huge, expensive, and exhausting overhaul are gone forever. Replacing this old-fashioned "periodic"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
groups. Moments later I saw a similar plea from a former Black co-worker on LinkedIn – asking for his manager to utter at least one word on the current events. And now there’s this letter series where Black students are yet again View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
about drop off, then I'm exhausted and I go to little coffee shops and take 30 minutes of just sort of deep breathes and just sort of think about the sort of imprint I want to leave on the day. And so coffee shops are always fun people... View Details
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its third exhausting year. Validating someone’s feelings can be as simple as pausing during the day to say, “You seem anxious,” says Zlatev, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
to those at the base of the economic pyramid. The company is about to exhaust its first round of venture capital funding, and the business model has yet to gain traction. How should the business model be changed, and should the venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
that are now off the road are also not emitting exhaust gases. The hope is that with more people taking the bus rather than their own cars, the remaining traffic will move faster, also reducing tangible air pollution. These benefits... View Details