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PE & VC investors by investment criteria (industry, stage and geography)

Useful filters in Preqin include estimated dry powder, total amount raised. Before exporting, click Manage Columns to customize what data you would like to include in your excel file. Click Export. PitchBook Go to Investors on... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Campbell : Won the Award for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students from Harvard Business School in 2011. Dennis Campbell : Won the 2011 Stan Hardy Award for Outstanding Paper published in the field of View Details

21 Sep 2016
HBS Seminar

Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107055 Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B) Harvard Business School Case 107-066 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Teaching Interest

Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)

Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details

07 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

about the thinking that informs their decision-making. This work will ultimately lay the foundation for both leader and organizational growth. Hise O. Gibson is a senior lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

excellence in teaching, research, and scholarship in perpetuity” during the next recession. The framework has four steps: Managers throughout the organization should understand their exposure. What might the next economic crisis look... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

capabilities. Developed through in-depth study of Boston Medical Center’s Health Equity Accelerator, the framework emphasizes four foundational principles—hyper-locality, community co-creation, condition-specificity, and internal consistency—and two View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

decisions Recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets Analyze relationships between variables Develop and test hypotheses Craft sound survey questions and draw conclusions from population samples Implement regression analysis and other analytical... View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

business performance. What does matter, it turns out, is having a strong grasp of the business basics. Without exception, companies that outperformed their industry peers excelled at what we call the four primary management... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

language and cultural barriers. One senior R&D manager in the United States notes, "We wanted to learn firsthand what was going on in centers of scientific excellence in Europe. Being present at a center of scientific View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

27 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance

Keywords: by Claire Senot, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Peter T. Ward & Anita L. Tucker; Health

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

inform business decisions Implement analytical techniques in Excel Develop effective pricing strategies Identify sources of competitive advantage through differentiation Evaluate the financial health of a business using financial... View Details

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

significantly reduce cost to selected low risk patients operated on in an ambulatory surgery facility and avoiding the academic medical center downtown. When the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center expanded regionally, they... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

initiatives to stay relevant. But which initiatives, executed where, when and how, would enable IKEA to achieve its goals in a way that was profitable while creating an IKEA they would want to pass on to the next generation of co-workers and customers? Technology and... View Details

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Why Your Gift Matters - Alumni

world. Giving to HBS has a ripple effect that extends far beyond the campus—helping the School develop leaders and generate knowledge that make the world a better place. Collectively, gifts of every size sustain our excellence in teaching... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

analysis from EIA data, it is clear that the Northeast has the highest electricity rates (16 cents per kilowatt-hour) on average and thus the largest operating costs associated with heat pumps. Conversely, the South has the cheapest... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Steve Allen Show in 1954, where television hosts revealed through one new medium the wonders of another. 71 Polaroid excelled at customer service. Camera owners received letters of welcome and inviting instructional booklets illustrating... View Details

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