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24 Sep 2015
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Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Nancy Huang (HBS ’96), Director of Outreach, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Describe your organization in three to five sentences. The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

20 Sep 2021
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

while producing robust returns. Emily's role prior to HBS was a Commercialization Manager at RXBAR. Mike Kelly (MBA 2022, Section I), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Climate Tech Fund at Fifth Wall Fifth Wall is the largest venture capital View Details

06 Feb 2006
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Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

this exposure." Shiva Rajgopal, who has investigated firms that stop giving guidance, shared some of his findings and those of his colleagues: " . . . firms that stop guiding have poor trailing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

24 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

search for low-level, operational choices, which in turn determine performance. Using a simulation model, we show that coupled search processes obscure the performance impact of high-level choices through two mechanisms: (1) a survivor... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog

them from effectively engaging the finance function. The finance divide between the finance team and other operators can generate a number of problems. For example, if finance teams are not sufficiently included in the strategic planning process, View Details

01 Feb 1998
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New Releases

American and European MNCs. Writing for managers who seek to boost firm performance and for academics interested in organizational design, the authors detail how MNCs can fully tap the value creation... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Value A transnational brand is the corporate brand of firms that market globally in order to leverage economies of scale and scope, according to HBS professors Douglas Holt, John Quelch, and co-author Earl Taylor of Research... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

forthcoming World Scientific Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2013
Teaching Note

Nutricia Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness

By: F. Asis Martinez-Jerez

Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer focus. CEO Ernest Vandenbussche must decide how to market infant milk formula most effectively in a region where the information environment is much less rich than in other... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Customer Relationship Management; Commercialization; Management Practices and Processes; Salesforce Management; Nutrition; Performance Evaluation; Information Management; Health Industry; Africa; Middle East

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Jamal Motlagh

From an early age, Jamal Motlagh was immersed in the figurative waters of business – his father is a civil engineer who successfully launched his own firm – and in literal water itself. "I've been swimming since I was three,"... View Details

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

25 Feb 2020
News

Gotta Dance

Above: Horowitz (seated) and Goldberg: More than the same old song and dance (photo by HollenderX2) When Evan Horowitz (MBA 2008) and Geoffrey Goldberg first met, the two clicked on multiple levels. Married in 2013, the pair cofounded Movers+Shakers in 2016, a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

27 Oct 2016
News

Pathfinder

Founded in 1963 by Bruce Henderson (MBA 1941), the Boston Consulting Group is one of a trio of well-known consulting firms that includes McKinsey and Bain. Many MBAs do an early-career stint in consulting—so many that it might almost be... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Faculty Books

democracy would fail and with them, society. Managing Network Resources: Alliances, Affiliations, and Other Relational Assets by Ranjay Gulati (Oxford University Press) These days firms are increasingly em-bedded in networks of alliances... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2002
News

If You're #1, Watch Out

You're the top performer in your market. Your products are of such a high quality that they exceed the requirements of all but the most demanding customers, and you're the only one able to serve them. Clear sailing ahead, right? Wrong,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Mar 2014
Blog Post

BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up

company size is important for anyone looking to join a start-up. Have a sense of how you would perform given the challenges of wherever the firm is in its growth. What are the operations like? Amid all the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

01 Dec 2015
News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

(Thinkstock/Getty Images) Robo-advisors, like Betterment and Wealthfront, are built for millennials-automated asset management for those with lower account balances or an aversion to traditional financial advisors. Silicon Valley has taken notice, aggressively funding... View Details

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details