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- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
invests in programs that merge education with workforce development and help low-income youth prepare for sustainable, productive careers. After starting at HBS in 2011, Anderson interned at Next Street, a Roxbury-based merchant bank that... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
momentous. Since we launched in December 2013, we have already seen five of our formerly homeless artists gain housing; not simply because of this new opportunity to earn income, but because being validated—being shown their talent is... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
all. The case focuses on the launch of three mobility experiments (car sharing, parking, and on-demand ride sharing) and asks students to determine how Fields should balance these types of experiments with the company's traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
take advantage of factor cost differences. Instead, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production, giving rise to a class of high-skill, intra-industry vertical FDI. Measuring and Managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Management" that Beaulieu co-wrote to launch the discussion, works like this: "In a carve-out arrangement, a private disease management vendor typically takes on full risk for the care of patients with specific diseases like... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Minister) Dr. Manmohan Singh. Up until that time, government controls on production (referred to as the “license raj” or “permit raj”) created a stagnant environment for competition and entrepreneurial activity. MBAs who came home during... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Research in Black and White | Baker Library
life in the laboratory. “Today is an ‘Oh be joyful day,’ at least in contrast to yesterday,” she wrote to Land, “The production mix is . . . promising.” (16) Test photographs, Meroe Morse to Edwin Land, SX-70 Laboratory, Friday, July 21,... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
synergies as well as a recently added contingent value right (CVR) designed to “sweeten” the offer and decide how to respond. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-068 Saudi Aramco and Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
diversified the company’s interests by adding investments in energy and infrastructure to supplement Sintesa’s holdings in consumer and industrial products as well as property and development. Ten years on, Kamdani notes that implementing... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
Clubs News Clubs News In an effort to bolster entrepreneurial activity and increase participation in the HBS New Venture Competition (NVC) among alumni in the region, the HBS Association of Southern California has launched a series of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
three-day versions of it are now being held at management schools in Mexico, Canada, and Switzerland, with the participation of HBS interest group members. In 1995, unit member Assistant Professor Jeffrey F. Rayport (with Associate Professor John J. Sviokla) View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
though he likes the limelight on his terms, he's been enigmatic as a leader. Let's remind people Facebook has only been around, I think they launched in 2006 to the public. So it's still a relatively young company and one that's... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
was enough to spur the innovation, offering inventors a "seal of approval" they could then use to show investors that their idea had merit. "When you think about the cost of launching a new innovation, it is clearly an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas for payment. In 2010, the UK... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
out to do something fun for themselves and ended up creating a production that continues to attract a huge following. Kraus uses Blue Man Group as an example of finding your "flow"—experiencing such enjoyment from an activity that you... View Details