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- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
capability to draft documentation that protects against all contingencies?; and (8) Can there be a gap between the promise and the capability (a way to improve an organization's performance), or is this too risky? In short, there was a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
bring to an earlier and less costly end—relatively weak patent-infringement lawsuits; (2) strengthen the litigation and bargaining positions of patentees with especially robust cases; (3) flag weaknesses in litigation positions to the benefit of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Chu, Joe Lassiter, and Mike Roberts. Initially, Sahlman recalls, there was some resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner's Venture Capital and View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next... View Details
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
classmate at Harvard, and super engineer – to build a better device. Neither Olivia nor I planned on using our Harvard MBA to build “kitchen appliances” (in our case, a cold brew coffee maker). An app, maybe. But an actual, physical app-liance (ha ha)? With friends... View Details
- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
course, there were practical obstacles to consider. As the founder of a small private equity firm, I was nervous about the impact on my career and the reaction of my partners, deal sources and investors. ... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
converting planning to action. The MCAP contains ambitious mitigation and adaptation goals but lacks specific funding sources or enabling legislation. Therefore, the MCAP remains a suggestion document rather than a concrete plan for... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Exercise of Leadership, a New Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog
through a private equity firm, search fund model or a public company that through dual class stock is still family controlled. It is also useful for everyone going into general management and / or want to be... View Details
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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
and collaborative student assignments. In January 2024, students will visit 10-12 organizations (including their operating facilities) in Mumbai and Bangalore . These organizations include private companies and government entities such as... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
communities’ impact on consumers and companies Assess the importance of each step of negotiating consumer-brand relationships 9 hrs Module 4 Managing Brands Over Time to Maximize Value Discover how to reposition a brand to maintain its competitive edge, leverage... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
creating resources, adapting to the unexpected, and managing creativity. Important empirical and clinical work in venture capital and private equity has shed new light on the structure, governance, and... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
them appear manipulative. Some children grow up to use these time-honored tactics in the workplace. For example, when a private equity firm negotiates with a major institutional investor, the investor might... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
crowd-funding and the end of the prohibition of solicitation for private placements." What the iCrowd founders have learned, however, is that laws may be passed quickly, but their implementation can take time. In the case of the JOBS Act,... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Place at HBS
world-class facilities at the University of Kansas. I went from a 100-person hometown to a metropolis of 8 million. I went from shoveling mud for my family’s water well drilling business to working in private View Details
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Kraft Accelerator
100 private equity investments. Over the past five decades, the Kraft family has been one of New England's most philanthropic families, donating hundreds of millions of dollars in support of local charities,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have increasingly implemented broad and sophisticated non-market strategies. Within strategy beyond markets, there are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne