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HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance Course Number 1624 Visiting Scholar Sabrina Howell Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get involved with a new... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

secured and the league is fully capitalized, and with additional revenues derived from television contracts and ticket sales, the NSA, Rottenberg believes, will be on sound financial footing from the outset,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

direct connections. “I didn’t get offers,” she says, “but I did get lots of good advice.” An intriguing title leads to the right fit For a long time, Sarah struggled to find a role that matched her ambitions. Then the right opportunity... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)

education. the average annual salary for a wnba player is $60,000 to $70,000. I signed a contract recently for a player who will make more in a month overseas than she gets in the WNBA for an entire season. Now how do you explain that?... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen

01 Dec 2008
News

Faculty Research Online

bowls. What he found: Good teams are much better matched up than they used to be, and there are implications beyond sports. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6010.html. The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit... View Details

06 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

they would purchase a target item in the center of their screens. The participants were divided into three groups: an alone condition, where they viewed only target items without any other items; a matched condition, where they viewed... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising

16 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

and 2021 that were compiled by Capital IQ. The research team matched those transactions to financial data supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, as well as information on IT spending provided by Aberdeen Strategy & Research. Finally, they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

Profile

Ravi Belani

were more than eighty South Asians in my class, and a huge number of entrepreneurs, at least a hundred. Every idiosyncratic interest you have is represented in significant numbers – no other school can match them.” As a venture... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

officer and managing director at New York–based BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, Breitfelder talked to Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) about an area that isn’t always seen as a match for MBA skills. YY: Why do you think you... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 1998
News

A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)

sportsmanship, Kluzak registered an impressive career with the Bruins despite undergoing eleven operations precipitated by a 1984 knee injury. He retired in 1990 and, at age 27, entered Harvard College as a sophomore. In Kluzak's era a... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

Profile

Gary Shi

years were difficult. At P&G, he had to earn the respect of sales representatives with much more experience than he had. At PepsiCo, he instantly stepped into tough negotiations and contract terms View Details

23 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers produce better... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Profile

Eric Chavez

built his own commercial contracting business. “My parents came here to have a prosperous future they wouldn’t have otherwise in Mexico,” Eric says. Eric’s initial calling was in engineering. Through work at General Motors and an... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech

01 Sep 2005
News

New Art

GERALD SCHWARTZ with art lovers Supriya Menon (MBA '05) and Avid Larizadeh (HBS '06). View art purchased on this year's trip When Gerald Schwartz (MBA ’70) attended HBS, the walls of Aldrich Hall were bare. As a longtime art lover who... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

because of the size and makeup of the audience it attracts." Of Fox's television contract with the NFL, Steve Greyser notes, "While many people thought Fox overpaid for its NFL rights, in reality it was a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

customers and for investors. We need leaders who understand the larger purpose of the enterprise and the principles and standards that drive its success. We need leaders whose behavior matches and reinforces those values. In a word, we... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

business model that best matches the characteristics of the innovation and the needs of the target customer group. For example, one electronics company we worked with thought it had a new-market disruptive... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the... View Details