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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

Enroll Now Key Concepts Identify a business opportunity Evaluate an idea and assess the market Explore the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy Discover the key... View Details

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

increased during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Diversification gave firms both financing and investment advantages. First, conglomerates became significantly more leveraged relative to comparable focused firms. Second, conglomerates' access to internal View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management, the $500 million hedge fund he founded in New York; Evolve... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

28 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 28

choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself, raising the required capital from "friendly" investors and building shipment volume slowly, or 1366 could accelerate its View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

and in capital markets, and thus for the ability of managers and markets to effectively allocate resources across competing projects." What They Say To determine which of these possibilities have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

$12 million in sales. Over the next 30-plus years, Dahod built five additional companies, each capitalizing on his own insights into technology and what the future would require—be it high-speed switching (Sigma Networks), high-speed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

for HBP’s three market groups—Corporate Learning, Education, and Harvard Business Review Group. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 3 percent from the prior year to $310 million. Publishing’s growing worldwide influence was... View Details

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Robin Greenwood | About

in 2019 in the area of capital markets and asset pricing in the Journal of Financial Economics (second place), and the inaugural 2014 Jack Treynor Prize awarded by the Institute for Quantitative Research in... View Details

October 2019 (Revised August 2022)
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Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance

By: Michael Chu, Brian Trelstad and John Masko

In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two years later, the pair made their first... View Details

Keywords: Fast Moving Consumer Goods; Social Entrepreneurship; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Prejudice and Bias; City; Urban Scope; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio; United States

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

both a negative and a positive sheet in a single process and produce a stabilized, dry print in a compressed period of time. Land wanted to capitalize on the qualities already inherent in the silver halide compounds, noting that at an... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

results. Other Interesting Points Expansion of earnings multiple. Companies usually focus on increasing their market capitalization by growing earnings. However, a result of transparency and sound governance... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment bankers, stock View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights

was 33.6 percent, compared with 7.3 percent in fiscal 2020. The value of the School's endowment (after the net impact of distributions from the endowment and the addition of new gifts) increased to $5.3 billion, from $4.1 billion a year earlier. View Details

March 2021
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Founders Factory

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett

In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within... View Details

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

liberating, creatively and personally. “We had this charismatic appeal, this raw authenticity, but we didn’t have the cultural or social capital to access those worlds and people weren’t exactly excited about opening the doors for us, for... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

November 2006 (Revised June 2010)
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SUN Brewing (B)

In July 2004, Shiv, Nand, and Uday Khemka are discussing their holdings in SUN Interbrew, a leading Russian beer producer that is part of the family's global portfolio of businesses. SUN Interbrew has been operating as a joint venture since 1998, when the Khemka... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Ownership Stake; Family Ownership; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Russia