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John C. Mulliken

Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

16 May 2023
In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

status and manage tricky processes under pressure. For example, how to get a timely board resolution to temporarily tap into personal funds to make payroll during the SVB situation could translate into how to fast-track a decision on how... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

companies that facilitate project-based and/or flexible-work opportunities. iRelaunch Co-founded in 2007 by Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA 1985), iRelaunch is a full service career reentry company, providing programming, training, conferences, events, job View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a faculty affiliate of BEI. He has been working in climate tech entrepreneurship and venture capital for a number of years, and he is an active investor, and Board director & advisor... View Details

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

97 percent from the same time a year earlier; for the fiscal year, net earnings were down 53 percent to $316 million. The Starbucks board was reluctant to send 10,000 partners to New Orleans at a cost of $30 million, but Schultz stuck to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Four titans who defined a new era in business during the past decade recently concluded their terms: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis. When they became CEOs, the Great Recession of 2008 was... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

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"Troll" Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation

By: Lauren Cohen, John Golden, Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers

The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For years, however, there has been concern that patent litigation is undermining, rather than furthering, these goals. Particularly in the United... View Details

Keywords: Patent Trolls; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation

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September 2014 (Revised March 2015)
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Fast Ion Battery

By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Stephanie Puzio

John Davidson, a partner at Ware Street Capital (WSC) and a board member at Fast Ion Battery, had just received a phone call from Don Lerner at Bluelock Ventures telling him that Bluelock would not participate in the $5M bridge financing for Fast Ion Battery. Lerner's... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Real Options; Term Sheets; Clean Technology; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital

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25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

has a dark side, and if employees aren’t careful about how and when they express it, it can turn off colleagues or even make them feel threatened, according to new research. “You can’t just express passion and expect it will be jolly good. It isn’t always the way to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Events - Health Care

President and Chief Executive Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health; Board of Trustees, Beth Israel Lahey Health Moderator, Tina Tianning Yu, Ph.D., MBA 2008, Chief Executive Officer & President, Mevion Medical Systems Download to Calendar... View Details

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Dean, Executive Education; Senior Associate Dean, HBS Online Research Interests : balanced scorecard , boards of directors , incentives , inter-organizational control Interviews Narayanan Vaghul Hemendra Kothari Y.V. Reddy Mallika... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

that all showed the same surprisingly lukewarm message about the impact of microfinance on livelihoods. Natalia Rigol: People expected to see shifts in household income, business growth, and consumption, but across the board these... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

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Women at HBS - Alumni

The Women’s Leadership Forum Women on Boards HBS Women’s Association Academic and Campus Links Race, Gender & Equity Initiative Women’s Student Association Celebrating the 50th anniversary of women being admitted to the full-time MBA... View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

serving over the years as Co-Chairs of their respective MBA Class Reunion Campaigns. They are three-term members of the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors and are currently serving as Vice Chairs for the HBS Campaign. Additionally, Steve has... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

at HBS will have an opportunity to inform the Admissions Board of non-degree preparatory coursework (including CORe), this is one of many application elements and will be considered in the larger context of a holistic selection process.... View Details

07 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 7

at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members, but not senior managers, a result that is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Katie Sadler

become life-long mentors. What is your favorite childhood memory? Every summer, my mom would pile our family, including two dogs, into a minivan and we would drive from Michigan to Maine to spend the summer with my grandparents. We spent time at the beach, played View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

spanning the academic year. During this time, groups of students complete a strategic consulting project (4 hours per month per student) for their partner organization under the mentorship of the organization’s executive staff or Board... View Details

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Alumni - Business & Environment

can help you through career coaching, the alumni resume database, and board membership. Lifelong Learning As a lifelong member of the HBS community, you have access to insights, training, expertise, and support from faculty and fellow... View Details

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

that day for my city, the point of friction was the elementary school. I went down there and immediately connected with the police chief, talked to the school board members as well as city council that started to arrive. And then from... View Details

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