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  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

second year, it brought us emotionally closer and created a deeper sense of community. I stumbled during my first Zoom class in August last year – I was still on mute as I made a comment in a Finance class. However, we began to help each... View Details
  • September 2024
  • Case

Leadership for Stretch Goals: Inspiring Employees to Achieve the Impossible at Charter Next Generation

By: Ethan Rouen and Elisabeth Powell
In 2023, Kathy Bolhous, CEO of Charter Next Generation (CNG), set out to achieve an ambitious "Moonshot"—increasing profits by $100 million within three years, purely through internal innovations and efficiency gains, without layoffs or new revenue streams. After years... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Employee Ownership; Motivation and Incentives
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  • October 2015
  • Case

Clearwater Seafoods

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
Clearwater sought to market value-added shellfish products in a traditionally commodities based industry, while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater harvested lobsters, clams, scallops, shrimp, and other... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Profit; Goods and Commodities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Canada
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  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

have enough career experience? (About 5 percent of students at HBS decide to leap into entrepreneurship immediately upon completing the MBA program, but up to 50 percent will have founded a company within a decade of graduation, according to Wasserman, who teaches in... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Bridging Business and Engineering

Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) hopes to build on his technical background and hone his entrepreneurial and management skills in the new joint degree program. (photo by Susan Young) Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) hopes to build on his technical... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48304 forthcoming Review of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Events - Private Capital Project

(International Programs Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management), Kate Bingham (Managing Partner, SV Health Investors), Ramana Nanda (Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Imperial College London), and Conor Walsh (Paul A.... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2023
  • News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

that extends beyond gender. "In Brazil, more than 50 percent of the population is Black, yet you don't see any investors who are Black, and you rarely find Black founders. We have connected to entrepreneurial hubs outside of São Paulo,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare their survey answers to those provided by a large sample of... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Health Pandemics; Investment; Decision Making; Surveys
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  • 2011
  • Article

'Deprival Value' vs. 'Fair Value' Measurement for Contract Liabilities: How to Resolve the 'Revenue Recognition' Conundrum

By: Joanne Horton, Richard H. Macve and George Serafeim
Revenue recognition and measurement principles can conflict with liability recognition and measurement principles. We explore here under different market conditions when the two measurement approaches coincide and when they conflict. We show that where entities expect... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value; Deprival Value; Contract Liabilities; Fair Value Accounting; Measurement and Metrics; Profit; Revenue Recognition; Assets; Performance Evaluation; Contracts
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  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Business Development at SunPower. Chrissy Kahn (MBA 2023, Section J), Summer Internship: Strategy Intern at Montauk Seaweed Supply Company Montauk Seaweed Supply Company is a start-up working to transform New England-area farmed seaweed... View Details
  • Web

Joiner - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Finance Field Y Tough Tech Venture Labs Map out your startup search process and approach: CPD career coach Rock Center staff HBS Professors Attend “Entering StartUpLand” presentation with... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

Katherine Miller. When Koehn recently taught "Madam C.J. Walker" in her MBA course Entrepreneurial Leadership: Past, Present, and Future, her students in turn discussed Walker's rise against a historical backdrop dominated by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

capital projects with a mix of three sources of funding: gifts, unrestricted reserves of internally generated cash, and the strategic use of debt financed through the University. The HBS balance sheet... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

including overarching business goals and strategy. If there are serious functional and/or other internal fractures on either side, the process won't work. Broaden the negotiation perspective to encompass all elements of the situation.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated with the firm’s View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Donald J. Chiofaro

however, his $600-million, 1.8-million-square-foot International Place - one of the top ten office buildings in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal - is a Boston landmark and a monument to Chiofaro's daring and tenacity.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

enough to join Ford as a Machine Learning Researcher. I wrote software, generated intellectual property, and talked about autonomous vehicles in international industry conferences. In late 2018, I realized that commercially launching... View Details
  • April 2023
  • Case

Burning the Sails to Save the Ship: The Pilati Family Dilemma

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger
Octavian Graf Pilati, rising generation member of an Austrian princely family, prepared to sell the palace his family had held for over three hundred years. In recent years, the Pilati family lands had been leveraged as loan collateral for an international venture that... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Family; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agribusiness; Family Business; Property; Identity; Culture; Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governance; Crisis Management; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Real Estate Industry; Austria
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  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel