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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
knowledge of how to get the product out there. Distributing refrigerated products is not an easy business. People could probably come pretty close to copying our re-cipes, but to actually do the marketing and distribution, manage shelf... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation By: Harhoff, Dietmar, and Karim R. Lakhani, eds. Abstract—The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
Online Advertising By: Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract—As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2015
- News
Seattle and Cleveland Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Joan P. Schaefer (MBA 1997) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Cleveland Regional Event, September 17, 2015. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from the Seattle, Washington and Cleveland, Ohio regions gathered on September 16 and 17, 2015 to celebrate and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
in deep discussion—is no different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures Background Harvard Business School (HBS) has a long tradition of entrepreneurial activity. In recent years, the emphasis on entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School specifically, and at Harvard University... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
help-friendly organization has to be actively nurtured, however, because helpfulness among colleagues does not arise automatically: competition, pride, or distrust may get in the way. The trickiness of this management challenge-to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
internships, and trainings. Making Inroads into Finance Working with INROADS, Ramirez connected with Wellington Management and an internship in finance. “It was a very rewarding experience,” Ramirez shared. “I had a community of people... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
private equity and public companies "changes the ownership structure of assets and alters the incentives and governance mechanisms that surround the economic engine of our economy." During a recent interview in his Rock Center office, Rhodes-Kropf, an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
HBS alumni often describe the MBA Program as a transformational experience. That observation especially rings true for students such as Meredith Weenick, Neera Nundy, Abdu Mukhtar, and Jonathan Hodgson who participate in the Nonprofit and Public View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience plays a key role in shaping investors' beliefs. During the 2003–2007 mortgage boom, inexperienced fund View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
Publications March 2015 AFP Exchange Well Said: Why Articulating Your Strategy Can Set You Apart. By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Senior finance managers now operate in an altered c-suite landscape. The executives reporting to the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
imperfections, government policies, and entrepreneurial ambition in their creation, as well as the organizational challenges posed by managing such diversified firms owned by a family. Much of the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
succeeded in business. “I've really had two careers,” he observes, “one as a for-profit financial entrepreneur and one as a crusader for economic development.” As a managing partner in his own investment firm, Tierney has the freedom to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
3 Concerns I Had about HBS
classmates found patterns (comparing a situation in Finance to one in The Entrepreneurial Manager, for instance) that I would never have seen, but those links remain highly memorable. Though you can choose your courses and narrow your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
establishing your intent as a donor, setting strategic priorities, hiring staff, and managing compliance, administration, and governance. It typically makes more sense for families looking to invest millions of dollars over many years to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Growth Fund, run by CEO Kevin Hall (MBA 1996), to raise a $30 million fund dedicated to starting and growing new charter organizations in Tennessee. One of the Growth Fund's grantees is Melissa Megliola-Zaikos (MBA 2000), founder and CEO of Intrinsic, a new charter... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Working PapersGlobal Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper considers the risk management problem of an investor who holds a diversified portfolio of global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna