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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Business School Case 213-008 High yield bond fund Proventus Capital Partners (PCP) has invested in underwater bonds issued by Preem, a large oil refinery. As maturity approaches, in the midst of financial crisis, Preem appear unlikely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
change the way a charitable organization solicits donations. “Donors don’t just want to buy medical equipment and supplies. They want to buy outcomes” Rather than asking for funds toward a new building or a... View Details
- Web
Research - Race, Gender & Equity
Salikova considered scaling opportunities for the foundation, which provided educational opportunities for children from rural regions of Kazakhstan. Established by Kazakhstani businessman and philanthropist Aidyn Rakhimbayev, IQanat... May 2025 Case Wilburn View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors Authors:Ilia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
gender diversity, induced by parenting more daughters, improves deal and fund performances. These effects concentrate overwhelmingly on the daughters of senior partners than junior partners. Taken together, our findings have profound... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations Authors:Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
Youssef is a medical doctor and the first Syrian Rhodes Scholar. He has an MD from Syria, an MSc in International Health at Oxford and is currently doing an MBA at Harvard Business School along with a PhD in computer science (clinical AI)... View Details
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Wyss House | About
was rededicated in 2006 to honor Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965), chairman and former CEO of Synthes, Inc., a pioneering company in the field of medical technology and devices. In 2004, Wyss established the Hansjörg Wyss Endowment for Doctoral... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
really are shooting for zero defects, but if you don't have some failures, you're probably not taking enough risk." When asked to share his proudest achievement, Kennedy looks instead to the career of his wife, Karen, who enrolled in View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- Web
Judges - Alumni
as an Infantry Platoon Leader in the US Army in North Iraq from 2008 - 2009, and is a graduate of several military schools, West Point, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ben is also a volunteer or board member with: Harvard Business School, UCLA’s View Details
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
Few people enjoy asking for money. Whether you’re selling cookies or seeking a gift to fund medical research, it's rarely easy. “Many people see it as akin to begging,” writes Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a View Details
- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
solutions. SELCO also provides gap funding from philanthropic organizations and other financialinstitutions to help catalyze development and deployment of new DRE technologies. Solar Powered Healthcare Technology Solutions The healthcare... View Details
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Peggy Mativo-Ochola
assumed she’d follow a "traditional path" toward medical school. But her advisor encouraged Peggy to think more holistically about her life and career. Even though Peggy enjoyed her lab work, she increasingly felt "it took... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
to grips with the question, Shu and co-author Erin Scott, of the National University of Singapore, needed to find a setting in which they could pinpoint the relationship between initial evaluation and future outcomes—that is, one in which experts were evaluating ideas... View Details
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
study highlights two vastly disparate companies—Coca-Cola and McKesson—that sought patents within the same technology class. The companies proposed devices that used carousel-like storage systems to dispense beverages and medical... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
category for “Zebra Medical Vision” with Sarah Gulick (HBS Case 619-014, September 2018). Christian Kaps : Winner of the 2024 Best PhD Paper Award from the Commodity & Energy Markets Association for "Residential Battery Storage—Reshaping... View Details
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
ISA-Association of Learning Providers. Peter Tufano : Attendee at the World Economic Forum and Global Agenda Councils, 2016–2020. 2018 Laura Alfaro : Recipient of a Harvard China Fund Faculty Grant in 2018. Hubert Joly : Inducted into the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics. The data that Bancel saw that evening were shocking. The numbers suggested Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat diseases—one that promised to change the medical world, resulting in cures for... View Details