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  • Career Coach

Nicolle Richards

Nicolle is passionate about supporting students in navigating different roles focused on creating social impact. Nicolle has spent her whole career in the social impact space,... View Details
  • May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 212-006. In 2008, Jay Davis (HBS’ 08) and Jason Pananos (HBS’ 08) formed Nashton Partners and raised $500,000 from investors to fund their search. After 30 months of searching, and exhausting the money they raised to fund their search, Davis... View Details
Keywords: Search Fund; Acquisition; Capital Structure; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Partners and Partnerships
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  • Video

Dr. Silvia Gold

Dr. Silvia Gold, President of the Mundo Sano Foundation and co-founder of Grupo Insud, describes her foundation’s pursuit to make meaningful social change by decreasing barriers to treatment for “neglected tropical diseases” (NTDs). View Details
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to the same caste as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2003 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Harlem Children's Zone, The: Driving Performance with Measurement and Evaluation

By: Allen S. Grossman and Daniel F. Curran
Geoffrey Canada, CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, wanted his organization to grow dramatically to reach thousands of poor and underserved children in Harlem. The agency ran a variety of successful social service programs throughout New York City that were separately... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Valuation
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    Rajiv Lal

    Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

    • 26 Mar 2019
    • Blog Post

    SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE

    the walk if they want to attract and retain the best talent! How would you describe the social impact you seek to have in the world? I seek to work towards a world where every young African has access to the... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship

      Ghassan E. Nuqul

      Keywords: Wellness
      • April 2009 (Revised May 2009)
      • Case

      Oprah Winfrey

      By: Nancy F. Koehn, Erica Helms, Katherine Miller and Rachel Wilcox
      The case explores the entrepreneurial journey of Oprah Winfrey, examining how she built an audience for one of the most successful television shows in history; how she created the company, Harpo Productions, that produces that show as well as other media offerings; how... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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      • 26 Oct 2021
      • Blog Post

      Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

      When Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) came to Harvard Business School two decades ago, he was also interested in having an impact at the intersection of business and social enterprise, but he didn’t know exactly how to... View Details
      Keywords: Social Enterprise
      • 23 Jun 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

      few key questions: What specific characteristics influence individuals' desire to work together on an investment deal? And given that influence, how does affinity affect investment performance? Do common... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
      • 02 Jul 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: July 2

      and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists' investments across time and as they move... View Details
      Keywords: Anna Secino
      • April 2002
      • Article

      Internal Capital Markets and Firm-Level Compensation Incentives for Division Managers

      By: Julie Wulf
      Do multidivisional firms structure compensation contracts for division managers to mitigate incentive problems in their internal capital markets? I find evidence that compensation and investment incentives are substitutes: firms providing a stronger link to firm... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Markets; Executive Compensation; Capital Budgeting; Motivation and Incentives; Profit; Decisions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Investment; Contracts
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      • 2022
      • Article

      Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

      By: Ruomeng Cui, Hao Ding and Feng Zhu
      We study the disproportionate impact of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak on female and male academics' research productivity in social science. The lockdown has caused substantial disruptions to academic activities, requiring people to work from home.... View Details
      Keywords: Gender Inequality; Research Productivity; Telecommuting; COVID-19 Pandemic; Research; Performance Productivity; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Health Pandemics
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      • Web

      Publications - Faculty & Research

      it-or-lose-it" Provisions By: Louis T. Wells Citation Read Now Related Wells, Louis T. Mining Terms: 'Use it-or-lose-it" Provisions." Columbia FDI Perspectives , no. 415 (August 4, 2025). August 2025 Case REDF: Investing in Employment... View Details
      • 20 Oct 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Elizabeth Pontikes, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

      • Feb 2014
      • Case

      Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities

      This overview describes how the United States funds and finances infrastructure investment to maintain its economic competitiveness. It considers the roles of taxpayers, users, government allocators and lenders, and private investors in... View Details
      • October 2009
      • Case

      Medisys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development Team

      By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
      Key topics include designing teams, managing teams, managing conflict, group dynamics, project management, product development, interdepartmental relations, and organizational change. MediSys, a U.S.-based medical equipment maker, has been developing IntensCare, a new... View Details
      Keywords: Project Management; Interdepartmental Relations; Organizational Change; Leadership; Conflict Management; Interpersonal Communication; Groups and Teams; Product Design; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Care and Treatment; Power and Influence; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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      • Research Summary

      Overview

      The research activity of Stefano Denicolai regards the management of innovation and technology. His recent works investigate if and how the investment in intangible assets (IA) - especially knowledge assets, such as patents or copyright - impacts on the firm... View Details
      • Web

      Doctoral

      Organizational Behavior Professor Shunyuan Zhang Marketing Student Research Organizational Emplacement as a Response to Digital Threat: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores By: Ryan Raffaelli and Ryann Noe 01 SEP 2025 | Administrative Science Quarterly... View Details