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- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817081-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-051 Unigrains Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
and financial technology, the digital health ecosystem is in its nascent stages and has been waiting for a catalyst to seed the system. This National Health Protection Scheme is expected to provide just this impetus for widespread... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
reimagine the regional ecosystems in which they participate. They should search for systemic, multisector opportunities; mobilize complementary partners; and obtain seed and scale-up financing from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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plan, and a mission to create deep economic and social change, NBA Africa is shooting for a continental shift in basketball Singing to the Corn Taylor Keen’s Sacred Seed project shows how a Native American approach to agriculture can... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
in their venture would be most appropriate for NatuRi's future growth. In addition, the founders had only a short period of time to decide whether or not to accept a Seed and Series A term sheet from a well known venture capital firm.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capabilities. They reveal how today's undervalued... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
failed justice system. It is a response to unending structural violence and inequity that has infected our economic systems, political institutions, and social structures. It is an uprising against growing economic inequality whose seeds... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
create given their love of the outdoor life. Still, it was a strange alliance between a scruffy, eccentric outdoorsman and two clean-cut East Coast, Ivy League Republicans on the fast-track for careers in finance or politics. After... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
have a long break-in period: I got out of the Navy on a Thursday before Memorial Day. A week from that Monday we had moved to Boston, and I had two sections of Finance for the summer session.” A native of West Virginia, Charlie Williams... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
M. Perkins, and Mark Weick Publication: Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 24, no. 2 (spring 2012) Abstract Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second‐largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
“It’s not something we can put off because we are in an emergency,” Obama said in December. “This is part of the emergency.” The seed for the Massachusetts reforms was planted in early 2003, in the first weeks of the administration of... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiate in the right order. Sorting Out The Possibilities When Steve Perlman was preparing to launch WebTV in 1996, he faced a critical sequencing dilemma. He had obtained seed funding, developed the technology to bring the Internet to... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
offerings via acquisitions. McKinsey alone bought over 30 smaller firms to seed new skills and open new client opportunities, which produced challenges in integration and cultural alignment. All of this created heterogeneous professional... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
millions of African farmers and their families achieve food security and lift themselves out of poverty. By 2008, AGRA had assembled a strong leadership team and had funded numerous small projects ranging from seed development to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
them. And so I sort of approached the investment process with some degree of skepticism in terms of how interested they would be, and it was a very fast turnaround. They basically decided in a day to invest in our seed round, and it was--... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
scuttled by. The factory, its walls covered with union stickers and pro-worker graffiti, contained the seeds for change. Any practical businessman, however, could see that despite the story’s romance, reviving Jeannette was an equation... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
returns over the last four years have caused this surge, which means, he says, that "people have lots of opportunities to finance projects, either through venture capitalists, angels, or corporations." But, as the saying goes, what goes... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
different innovation policies can help to explain who finances radical innovations and when and where radical innovation occurs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52506 March 17, 2017 Science How Economics... View Details