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Peter is the Founder & Managing Partner of Stellation Capital, an early stage venture capital firm headquartered in Brooklyn. Prior to this, he spent eight years as a Partner at General Catalyst, a venture capital View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Odesk and eLance, the newly combined firm continues to face problems of clients "circumventing" the Upwork platform after an initial match. This case explores a variety of options for how Kasriel might prevent circumvention and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
and politicians on its most popular shows. Fox News Channel had spread rapidly by the 2000 presidential election, its expansion fueled by the wealth accrued by Murdoch and his wildly successful media empire. The speed and breadth of this View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- News
A Winning Formula
Ramos: Hustle, tenacity, drive—and a people-centric worldview. Courtesy Dave Ramos A veteran of Nortel and IBM, Dave Ramos (MBA 1989) is the CEO of the Dashboard Group, a northern Virginia–based management consulting firm he founded in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
the student had interviewed industry leaders to better understand the barriers to growth that Indian private equity firms face — his analysis echoing findings from Sadun’s own research. “It built on... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
HBS faculty this fall after earning her doctorate from the London School of Economics. “If that credit stops, it can have a huge effect. We wanted to understand how firms deal with that, and what firms might... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
work for a firm that was global in nature,” Kuyoro shared. “McKinsey was for me the perfect combination of, you can try different industries and we're one global firm, with the Lagos office very much rooted and grounded on the Continent.”... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709043 One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon Harvard Business School Case 409-044 Rob Smith, senior partner of construction consultancy Davis Langdon, has just led the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
search for driving directions to a Walmart was counted toward Walmart’s consumer activity for the week. The researchers’ within-quarter measure accurately tracked current-period revenue growth and predicted announcement surprises and... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
supply chain, for business strategy, and for the ways in which firms work with stakeholders. In fact, economic prosperity and growth depend to a large degree on the health of our ecosystem, and our goal is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
social and environmental concerns into daily operations. In the multimedia case “Burt’s Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability,” HBS associate professor Christopher Marquis uses text exhibits and video interviews to show how the small... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
energy to priority areas for innovation." Amy Sauers added findings that suggest that large firms succeed that "attempted to 'get small' (through the vehicle of) 'lean, mean, heavyweight teams.'" Another ingredient... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Harvard Business School Case 818-039 Cumplo.com In August 2017, Cumplo’s Founder Shea and CEO Kirberg meet to discuss growth and strategy issues faced by this Chilean fintech startup. What sales and marketing strategy will best foster the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In... View Details
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
around the world (we find non-domestic investors are more likely to invest in firms with accounting similar to that used in their home country) and in looking at whether a single set of standards really will be applied in a consistent... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly mainstream investment,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell