Investments - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Oct 2017
News

Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of local Amazon offices, which now... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade

01 Mar 2009
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More Alumni Books

Biography of William Treat (MBA ’47 Feb.) by Merle Drown (Hobblebush Books) Local Heroes: How Loch Fyne Oysters Embraced Employee Ownership and Business Success by David Erdal (MBA ’81) (Viking) High-Powered Investing All-in-One for... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

proceeded when faced with multiple options. Those options — from mergers and acquisitions to leveraged buyouts and asset divestitures to "vulture" investing and tracking stock — are also explored. Gilson reminds readers that the devil is... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

more responsibility in the way decisions are made both from an investment perspective, but also from a money-deployment perspective on the entrepreneurial level. Morrell: It’s easy to think of the Silicon Valley model and the Frontier... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Q&A - Mark Fields

thing to do. Many other companies are now doing it as well. Now we look forward to better days. Our business plan for the next three to five years — known as our Millennium Plan — calls for growth, continued restructuring and reform, View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

30 May 2024
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Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

change the design of decision-making environments to influence the decisions of customers and employees. In recent work, he has examined participation in retirement savings plans, household investment decisions, and health care choices.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

Working in a small fishing village on the Panama-Costa Rica border, Skelly helped to make decisions about micro lending in order to generate small-business growth. “I didn’t know much about business, but when you’re trying to figure out where a $500 View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

more students the same material offered in the United States, says Palepu. But HBS went the other way. “We said what we know is no longer valid in a globalized world, and we need to learn more before we teach,” explains Palepu. “So let’s View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked

management, to make the investment with the money, to protect themselves. It’s only a matter of time until a big brand that we all know and trust—and every day—gets hammered hard. Not just Supermicro, but what about Apple, Amazon? I mean,... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

Camille Tang Yeh (MBA 1980) is the executive director of the School's new Asia-Pacific Research Office in Hong Kong. A native of Hong Kong, Yeh has almost twenty years of experience in investment banking, primarily in Asia. What are some... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
News

Alumni Books

anyone in business and sales. The book ends with a series of analytical exercises to illuminate basic principles on which readers can base business plans. The Power Curve: Smart Investing Using Dividends, Options, and the Magic of... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

says Bond, who, prior to her Motown career, served as a financial analyst for several corporations and investment firms. "The songs are as fresh today as they were 25 years ago." Candace Bond, vice president of catalog development and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping

innovation is accelerating rapidly, and means big changes and challenges for the sector. We are seeing rapid changes both in traditional retailers and in startups. The largest traditional retailers are investing heavily in their online... View Details

Keywords: Ron Johnson (MBA 1984), founder and CEO, Enjoy

15 Nov 2016
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Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

inadequacy of facilities in rural areas. “Basic health care is not accessible to a majority of Indian people,” she observes, noting that conditions in remote villages “drain life and productivity” from the entire country. In contrast, in a subsequent job as an View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Going Forward

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We also are committed to extending exciting work that we have begun, including further investing in HBX, continuing innovation in the MBA Program, and strengthening the global... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

movie theaters did with the advent of television. Myth #2: There are no barriers to entry on the Internet. What about the huge sums, asked Bezos, that Amazon and other e-commerce companies invest in their businesses? Barriers to entry are... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants

association that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs (currently some 1,700 individuals in sixty countries). The convergence under discussion was the overlap of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and the reality... View Details

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

01 Jun 2014
News

Start Me Up

ball forward every day." Culture "Too many founders get caught up in raising money or getting a product to market, while neglecting culture and cofounder relationships, which are integral to a startup's longevity." Foundation "It's worth it to View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Jul 2013
News

Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens

cross-sector organizations in Brazil, Ecuador, and Senegal. Plans are under way to expand to China and India. The Global Citizen Year idea also garnered Falik an HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship in 2009, along with a check for $25,000. "That additional View Details