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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
Concurrently, Lewis and I, plus several others, formed the first U.S.-style venture fund in Asia, in Hong Kong, with Lewis as the working M.D., to do startup/early stage investments — usually the transfer of proven success models from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entrepreneurship itself. At HBS we define entrepreneurship as the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control — so, obviously, creativity is a big factor.” In her new elective course, Leading Innovative Ventures, HBS associate professor Mary... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
Once the public schools in North Chicago decided to close in mid-March because of COVID-19, it took Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) and her staff less than 72 hours to totally revamp the business model for the nonprofit she runs, North... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
startups.” And yet, sustainability has been a consistent theme in Bonita’s choices of corporate boards and investments. She explained, “For my board selections and my investments, I seek innovative products and services combined with a... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
professor Tom Eisenmann, who also serves on the board of OneMain.com, one of the nation's ten largest Internet service providers, and on the advisory boards of many Internet start-ups. Eisenmann's definition of the get-big-fast strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- February 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Can Families Conquer Private Equity? Pritzker Private Capital
By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan
Anthony (Tony) Pritkzer, Paul Carbone, and the Pritzker Private Capital (PPC) team wondered how to approach the firm’s next phase of growth. PPC was a private equity firm that offered a differentiated approach to the family capital market. Back in 2016, the partners... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; External Financing; Succession; Leadership Transition; Family Business; Private Equity; Investment; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Business Model; Private Sector; Financial Liquidity; Risk Management; Organizational Structure; Competitive Advantage; Venture Capital; Management Succession; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Illinois; United States
Cohen, Lauren, and Sophia Pan. "Can Families Conquer Private Equity? Pritzker Private Capital." Harvard Business School Case 224-078, February 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
market-based model you can attract vast amounts of capital to sectors that were historically funded by the government and/or NGO sectors. What we’re doing with conservation capitalism is parallel with that. We hope this new market-based... View Details
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
professor of strategy at HBS. It is also important because the two countries have embraced very different models of development. The biggest source of worry is the state of China's banking sector, which is technically insolvent.—Yasheng... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
discrete industries. First, there's in vitro fertilization, probably the most obvious piece. This is a service industry, like medicine in general, which caters to infertile couples. Then there are what I call the component industries,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
of Antares is to harness the power of private enterprise to promote public health." As part of its research and educational activity, Antares deploys joint HBS and HSPH student field-study teams around the world to work with health products and View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
innovation. Although the program usually consists of one teacher and the students, the involvement of adult facilitators has proven to be a powerful added benefit for both the children and the HBS volunteers. Dell will share the HBSAAA volunteer View Details
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
on customized software, bundled software, and (to a lesser extent) support services are significantly more likely to engage in some open source than pure software developers. Synergies are likely to make it more attractive to combine open... 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
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families Program, which became the national... View Details
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Shana Hoffman
Morton, MBA 2014, a student who shared her interests in health care and technology. “We did a whiteboarding session at the i-lab for an hour and came out with an early form of CareSolver.” Conceived as an online service platform,... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
positions. Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model Authors:Michael C. Jensen, Werner Erhard, and Kari L. Granger Publication:Chap. 16 in The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being, edited by Scott... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
Way of Looking at the World Author:Nitin Nohria Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/11/a-whole-new-way-of-looking-at-the-world/ar/1 Mumbai's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Nikki Skovran
revenue models for Awethu, including an Internet café and graphic design services, three of which were ultimately launched by the enterprise. This summer, Nikki’s “deep-rooted sense of adventure” will take her to Sydney, Australia, where... View Details