Informal Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

her MBA in 1993, Jennifer E. Gilbert has been president of Art Investment Inc., a publishing firm in Boston. She is a director of the Business Associates Club and president of the HBS Network of Women Alumnae. From 1996 to 1998 she was... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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HBS Celebrates Launch of New Legacy Society

Cindy Whitehead (center), the widow of the late John Whitehead, with event hosts Beth (MBA 1984) and Mike (MBA 1982) Fascitelli. (photo by Dana Maxson) Cindy Whitehead (center), the widow of the late John Whitehead, with event hosts Beth (MBA 1984) and Mike (MBA 1982)... View Details

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

the CEOs of Hershey, General Motors, Nvidia, and Amazon during earnings conference calls against AI-generated responses to the same questions: Hershey CEO: “We’ve continued to invest in capacity in brands and businesses across the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Information Technology

01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

revenue-neutral reform: A much-reduced rate, to facilitate US domestic investment and discourage transfer pricing games. A transition to a territorial regime of taxation with only US-earned profits subject to taxation and foreign... View Details

Keywords: ask the expert; Finance

May 2008 (Revised August 2010)
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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 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity

Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game

Administration. “The Forbes measure doesn’t make sense to me. Calculating return on investment based on salary five years out means Forbes rewards schools that mainly feed investment banks, private equity,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
News

Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

partners, whose involvement was facilitated by HBS’s Mexico City research office. “Many of the companies were surprised by how much they learned about innovation from seeing our students develop insight through design thinking,” he says. “It’s an exciting business... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Desert Dust-Up

Simmons “raising a ruckus in the oil patch,” said Barron’s (November 29, 2004). Simmons is chairman of Simmons & Co. International, a Houston investment bank active in the energy sector. As part of a small group invited to Saudi Arabia in... View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2016
News

Going Forward

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We also are committed to extending exciting work that we have begun, including further investing in HBX, continuing innovation in the MBA Program, and strengthening the global... View Details

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Pitchbook | Baker Library

Pitchbook Information on companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the private investment lifecycle. Read More Morningstar Equity Investment reports are... View Details

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

Compaq.” While KPCB’s investments today have grown larger, the basic principle is unchanged. “We are a service organization. We aid entrepreneurs in building new businesses or even whole new industries,” says Doerr, who helped shape many... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Hollywood Story

Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of each new venture, View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Information; Information

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate... View Details

02 Mar 2016
What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

Microsystems, is a futurist who had it right: ‘Privacy? Get over it!” Did Scott McNeely have a point? Has the issue been rendered moot by the very nature of information technology itself and the possibility that developers of security... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

01 Jun 2012
News

Global Mission

now serves as president of the automaker’s Americas division. In a bold move for the time, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) abandoned his Wall Street career in the early 1990s and headed to China, where he built a major auto parts manufacturing business and has now launched... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

01 Mar 2009
News

HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

will make important incremental investments to offset the effects of the downturn (for example, increasing our support to students in their job searches). Finally, we will seek out opportunities to strengthen our long-term position.” To... View Details

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

15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

employee 401(k) contributions responded to savings information provided by their employers. The study was conducted to understand what kind of influence company-offered information can have. “We’ve uncovered... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

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

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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

(e.g., operations, marketing, finance) in firms that make, sell and/or distribute physical products, or in organizations (e.g., consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, software providers, transportation providers) that... View Details

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