Informal Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
News

K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience

success or disaster. “When I sit on a board, I think of it as mentoring,” says Chia, EVP of Walden International Investment Group in Hong Kong. “I don’t think of myself as a venture capitalist but as somebody providing venture assistance,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Hewlitt-Packard; Apple; Information; Information; Information

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

systems built by our forbearers and work toward a more just future. Marketing Alternative Investments: A Comprehensive Guide to Fundraising and Investor Relations for Private Equity and Hedge Funds By Hemali Dassani (MBA 1999) and Nandu Kuppuswamy McGraw Hill View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

New HBS Alumni Board Members

The final in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1994, New York native Thomas G. Mendell (MBA '74) has been a partner in the principal investments area at The Beacon Group, LLC, in New... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

11 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center

call centers, with their attendant voice response units (VRUs—also known as automated voice response systems), need not be so inefficient. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service; Financial Services

August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
Case

IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

By: Joseph L. Bower

Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry

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01 Mar 2014
News

Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

Brightstar and Encore, which act as trade-in white labels for large retail chains and mobile carriers. Sure, these competitors lack Gazelle's brand in the eyes of consumers and Gazelle's website has a great NPS score, but I worry that these advantages are not... View Details

Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Sep 2015
News

Data-Driven Diligence

Illustration by QuickHoney On the surface, there is seemingly nothing sexy about a startup that sells foam mattresses online. But in January 2014, David Coats (MBA 1992) and Trevor Kienzle (MBA 1991) made a significant seed-round View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Mar 2016
News

Faculty Q&A: Price Check

a limited time. Many of its products sell out the first time they’re offered, and a majority of the revenues come from first sales. So the question of how to price new products is an important one, but there’s no historical sales View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 1998
News

Faculty Retirements

Samuel Hayes and Hugo Uyterhoeven, two longtime HBS faculty members, retired in June. Summaries of their distinguished careers follow. Samuel L. Hayes, III, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, joined the HBS faculty in... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

ventilation, air quality, water, moisture, and security. The pandemic is making it “easier than ever to invest in the basics of a healthy building,” says Macomber. He expects that a growing public focus on health measures will drive major... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Alumni Books

The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

01 Sep 2012
News

Rebel with a Cause

As a junior Episcopal minister, Bob Massie (DBA 1989) infuriated church leaders by revealing to his congregation that its $9 million endowment was secretly invested in a number of unchurchly entities, including military contractors,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

15 Apr 2014
News

Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize

the world's health care system by advancing new cures and therapies, developing new ways to apply information technology, and designing new health care systems to deliver affordable health." Ernesto Bertarelli, who along with his sister... View Details

Keywords: i-Lab; Harvard Medical School; Scientific Research and Development Services

May 2008 (Revised August 2010)
Case

ScriptLogic®: Point, Click, Done!™

ScriptLogic is a software company that has built a product portfolio that fits under a 'Point, Click, Done!' umbrella; its products are easy to download, easy to install, and easy to use. The company's online marketing program and inside sales force have been very... View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Development; Salesforce Management; Software; Information Technology Industry

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Educators

01 Aug 2002
News

Service Leadership Fellows

Omosa, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; Juan Carlos Pereira, Presidential Commission for Investment Promotion (in Nicaragua); and (front row) Nicole Hanrahan, Women's Educational and Industrial Union; Alexis Palmer, Lincoln Center... View Details

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, and other... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Mar 2012
News

Great Expectations

Moon Investing in HBS Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ Innovation is hard. But it is also what drives progress. So while it would be easy to just stay the... View Details

Keywords: Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Up the Learning Curve

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Apr 2002
News

Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club

I haven't made it to the cover of Forbes yet,' then run and hide. That's the last thing that should happen," says Loughran, a former director of research at a local investment bank whose own résumé - which includes diverse... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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