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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
business? Sarah Ford (MBA 2007)’s experience with Amazon highlights its allure and drawbacks. In 2012, Ford founded Ranch Road Boots, a high-end shoe company inspired by her roots in West Texas and her experience as a Marine Corps... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
first few days or weeks of life. Nurses in those units told us repeatedly how difficult it is to find veins in these small children, about the unpleasantness from having to needle-stick babies multiple times, and the resulting costs in... View Details
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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library
industry in small areas of the country. Mapping Tools Good for finding tables and maps that include industry-wide or regional statistics, such as the number of companies by employment size and level of... View Details
- 26 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
“Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”
in-store. After just two weeks on-site, Felipe already appreciates the depth of his internship experience. “I enjoy being in a small firm where I’m involved in everything,” he says. “I’m part of the ‘sensory’ group that tastes foods,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
millions for pandemic relief, used their networks and resources to support small businesses, and created entirely new enterprises to respond to a post-COVID world. In India, where the pandemic has hit particularly hard, HBS alumni are... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an early-stage venture-backed company headquartered in Los Gatos, California with a promising vision to reverse global warming... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
many consolidations in the past decade. Does the rapid consolidation of New World producers make profits at the cost of diversity? Should a beer company own a vineyard? A: The scope economies across the beer and wine businesses appear... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
don't be afraid to scrap your 2019 strategies in 2020. Rembrand M. Koning (@orgRem) is an assistant professor of business administration. Karen Mills: Lift small businesses, support the economy For many Main Street View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
the development via NASA to an era where industry leads has sped up the pace of growth and primed the space sector for investment. Co-founder of space technology company Escape Dynamics and a longtime investor in the industry, Garriott de... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
a tool . The problem is not the tool, but the user if the company were better run, you wouldn't need to bribe people to stay (but) there are times when the retention bonus is appropriate, such as when a View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
from a team in France that wanted to get an American player. This was a novel idea. Make a long story short, they gave me a player. I dealt with the team. It was a very small money deal. OK. So we sent her over. A few weeks later, I guess... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. He also leads a new merchandising and media company serving the African-American community via the Internet. Of these ever-changing challenges, he quips, "I just enjoy learning new... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
broken were education and medicine," Nielsen recalls. "But education seemed too big a nut to crack." Settling on medicine, Nielsen and Cramer pored over the Seattle phone book to find a research and development company they could buy and... View Details
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Arthur Rock
journey into venture capital began with an early stint in investment banking at Hayden, Stone in New York City. His natural affinity for finance led him to encounters with a number of small companies around... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
R&D lab, increased its mergers and acquisitions of companies that had synergies with the company’s businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while supporting rising living standards for... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Others are even approaching the crisis as an opportunity to enter new segments,” Sadun says. “There is tremendous energy across firms, and I hope that the report will be able to provide useful examples for other companies navigating these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
society where there are only rich people and poor people, the rich people can afford to simply eat imported food, while the lower class lives off the farm." Tracking the rise of the middle class, AACE started small but has grown quickly.... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
A group of Chinese tourists visiting the promenade in front of Pudong's skyline. Source: Richmatts When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg