Founder - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

reducing the demands of the position. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made it clear: If you’re unwilling to lend a hand to a co-worker to meet a customer need, you will not survive there. “When a lot is demanded of people, you have to build a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 1997
News

Brice Cutrer Jones

Ask Brice Jones, founder and president of Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards, what he does for a living, and he will answer simply, "I'm a farmer." Spend a morning touring his vineyard and winery in Windsor, California, however, and you will... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Charts & Statistics Birthplace Education Gender & Ethnicity Tenure Birthplace of Leaders Foreigners Gain CEO Access After Mid-Century Pre-1950 Founder 73% Family Business 2% Other CEO... View Details

February 2022
Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

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Purchase

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

it came from, but I typed up a letter to my section saying that there are gay people around you, you just don’t know it.” I was in the closet when I arrived at HBS. We all were. You had to be. I was ultimately introduced to Ernie Phinney (MBA 1978), who was one of the... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

million gift from the Frist family. The combined gift is the largest to support student aid in the School’s history. These gifts will establish the Frist Financial Aid Fund at HBS. Drs. Thomas F. Frist Sr. and Thomas F. Frit Jr. were View Details

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

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History - Entrepreneurship

forum groups (Rock Councils). Visit our Showcase to see the HBS entrepreneurs who are currently members of our Rock 100 community. Read More Rock Summer Fellows Rock Summer Fellows enables students to continue to explore their entrepreneurial path, both as View Details

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Events - Private Capital Project

Andrew Stern (President Emeritus, Service Employee International Union (SEIU), and Senior Fellow, Economic Security Project), Greg Jania (Global Co-head of Private Equity, APG Asset Management) and Peter Stavros (Co-Head of US Private Equity, KKR and View Details

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

$140 billion investment fund. And they have roughly about 25 to 27 different assets. So the chairman and founder of JAB, his name is Peter Harf. Peter Harf and I met when I was interviewing to join the fund. And our interview was two... View Details

03 Dec 2015
Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects

investors, allowing me to sit on the other side of the table from the VCs I knew well from my prior work experience. I also got to work alongside a tireless founder and understand how much really goes into launching a pilot, funding your... View Details

04 Feb 2021
News

Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO

Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs Amazon Web Services, which the Wall Street Journal... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

important was in service to the community -- an outlook that was an integral part of her upbringing," Porter explains. Inspired to a large degree by her work as the founder of a program for disadvantaged Boston youth, Porter created a new... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

Another option: Spin off a separate structure, such as a corporate foundation. Key elements in leadership were: Founders. Attendees expressed frustration over leadership and governance issues that stemmed from the fact that many nonprofits are started by a single... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

07 Oct 2021
News

Planning Ahead

As founder and chief information officer of Sound Point Capital Management, Steve Ketchum is someone who thinks about long-term investments for a living. But like so many people, when it came to his personal estate planning, Ketchum... View Details

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

balance—the ability to embrace both the divergence that may characterize early discussions and the unity needed for effective implementation. Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire and a renowned military leader, understood... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

08 Mar 2024
Blog Post

History of the HBS Women's Student Association

addition of women’s bathrooms on every floor of classroom buildings. Furthermore, the WSA has consistently introduced innovative initiatives to strengthen the support network for women at HBS. The female founder pitch competition started... View Details

23 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

teachers. There's Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram yoga in America, who has aggressively fought to patent his approach to traditional yoga style. Then there is the former model and ballet dancer Tara Stiles, who isn't particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

may be a great stepping stone to future venture capital. The open source environment made it possible, for instance, for the founders of Sun, Netscape and Red Hat, to show other people what they were made of. Companies Jump Aboard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

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