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July 2004 (Revised December 2004)
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How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Venture Opportunities

By: Michael J. Roberts and Lauren Barley

Four venture capitalists from leading Silicon Valley firms are interviewed about the frameworks they use to evaluate potential venture opportunities. Questions include: How do you evaluate the venture's prospective business model? What due diligence do you conduct?... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Opportunities; Framework; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction

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20 Oct 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

either my character or perspective. I am writing this blogpost from the office of a venture capital firm in Palo Alto. I have never been an investor and I have never lived in California. I would have never had the privilege to work in such an exciting View Details

07 Jul 2023
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Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

and connected community.” Segneri explains that being part of this environment gives students and alumni from HBS and Harvard University’s 12 other schools access to a wide range of support systems and resources, as well as the... View Details

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Morgan Hall | About

extensive reconstruction from 1990 to 1992. The complicated undertaking modernized and significantly expanded the building’s capacity and created a physical environment that fosters intellectual collaboration among faculty from different... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

private equity, private debt, hedge funds, and real estate, assess potential investment opportunities, and understand the skills and strategies necessary for investing in alternatives. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is... View Details

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

the line, are not directly replicable in software as there is no line to stop. "What we hope to do," Upton says, "is to distill the relevant aspects of lean manufacturing so that managers can see how these tools were applied successfully in a service... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

22 Mar 2023
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Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands

As I packed my bag to return to Boston after an exciting 2 weeks in Denmark and the Netherlands, I could not help but reflect on my experience there. I traveled to Europe to participate in the Immersive Field Course on Decarbonization and Sustainability ― an MBA course... View Details

02 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

to NASA.Q: If not goals, what? A: Creating environments where people want to achieve, where they want to help the organization, and where they want to do so in an ethical manner. Research shows that an even stronger effect than goals is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

presented us with the problem of figuring out whether there was anything we could do to reduce turnover," Gino says. "We thought it was the perfect environment to test whether we could make a difference just by changing something minor in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

the future. (See "The Medium's Many Messages" for more on the formats and language of Internet advertising.) A Total Marketing Environment Dollar totals for ad purchases, however, tell only part of the story. Martin Sorrell(MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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For Recruiters - Health Care

For Recruiters For Recruiters Companies benefit from hiring HBS graduates who are prepared to be leaders at any level, yet are comfortable in the team-based learning environment that mirrors the current business world. Our students are... View Details

12 Oct 2022
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11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

traditional, religious, and sometimes, machista Mexican culture, this relationship allowed me to accept and embrace the relationship with the men in my life. I dared to love bravely and vulnerably in an environment where doing so is often... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

for making smart financial decisions, and gain the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to both internal and external stakeholders. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an active learning View Details

09 May 2016
Book

‘Big Teaming,’ Audacious Innovation, and the Uncompleted Dream of a Smart City

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

gender triggers. Some environments are full of triggers that encourage superior performance by women, while others are full of triggers that encourage superior performance by men. Rather than indicating innate differences between men and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

in Norway but settled in Brazil as a young man, made a gift in his honor to establish the Erling Lorentzen Business and Environment Initiative Fund. A pioneer in the field of sustainable development, Lorentzen founded his pulp-making... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

January 1996
Background Note

Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Creativity, the production of new and useful ideas by individuals or teams, can appear in many forms and many functions within firms of all kinds--from entrepreneurial start-ups to well-established enterprises. This note describes the varieties of creativity in... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Creativity

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