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Entrepreneurial Finance is to help managers make better investment and financing decisions in entrepreneurial settings. The course covers all stages of the venture's life cycle from startup to exit, and...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
interdependent work is performed under conditions that make bounded stable teams infeasible, creating a need to understand factors that foster teaming in the absence of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Forecasting Climate Risks: Aviva’s Climate Calculus
By: Mark Egan and Peter Tufano
In late 2021, Ben Carr, Director of Analytics and Capital Modeling at Aviva Plc (Aviva)—a leading insurer with core operations in the UK, Ireland and Canada,—was preparing for an upcoming presentation before the company's board which included its CEO, Amanda Blanc,...
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Climate Risk;
Climate Finance;
Forecasting;
Insurance;
Risk Measurement;
Climate Change;
Risk Management;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Insurance Industry;
United States
Egan, Mark, and Peter Tufano. "Forecasting Climate Risks: Aviva’s Climate Calculus." Harvard Business School Case 224-025, September 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
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Employment
View Jobs Join our diverse team of inspiring professionals whose work is centered around our commitment to educate future leaders Staff Positions Over 15 departments form a diverse community of passionate individuals whose mission-driven...
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- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
mechanisms (forums for discussions and decisions, plus rules, policies, and agreements) to help the family make decisions and keep family members informed, united, and hopefully committed to future...
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- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Healthsuite is an open platform that provides a secure and private home for data, allowing care providers and consumers to use the information to make decisions about patient care. Philips executives are...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
parks his Fiesta next to the independent venture capitalists' Ferraris, the temptation to go elsewhere becomes too great." In other words, companies who create internal venture teams to fuel their research and development must not...
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- August 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Exercise
To Prioritize Money or Time? The P-Mot Exercise (Student)
By: Ashley Whillans and Liz Goldenberg
Working professionals are often in the predicament of needing to make a choice between activities that will grant them more money or more time. Indeed, in large-scale representative panels of working adults, most respondents report feeling pressed for both time and...
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Whillans, Ashley, and Liz Goldenberg. "To Prioritize Money or Time? The P-Mot Exercise (Student)." Harvard Business School Exercise 921-012, August 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- May 2016 (Revised March 2020)
- Teaching Note
Cyberdyne: A Leap to the Future
By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
Cyberdyne Inc. was a Japanese technology venture founded in 2004 by scientist Yoshiyuki Sankai to commercialize a hybrid assistive limb (HAL). HAL was a robotic exoskeleton system for people who had difficulty walking due to nervous system disabilities resulting from...
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- 20 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)
what inspires me. That and support from our community. This immediate and deep support has helped us say yes more and make the right decisions as the pandemic surges on. Those interested in learning more...
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
conditions that drive team performance. 6 weeks, 7-9 hrs/weekApply by July 15$1,850Certificate Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Professor Nien-he Hsieh Develop a toolkit for making tough...
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The HR-Executive Suite Connection
effectively with your CEO, COO, CFO, board of directors, and others on your senior leadership team Create a more nimble and high-performing organization Anticipate, diagnose, and mitigate problems that arise in a growing organization...
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Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete
By: Michael Beer
Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:
- Capacity of the... View Details
- January 2008 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation
Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals...
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Restructuring;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Chemicals;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Finance;
Chemical Industry
Mason, Scott. "Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 208-107, January 2008. (Revised February 2008.)
- September 1995 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
Sunbeam Television (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and E. Scott Lathrop
Sunbeam Television, owner of a television station in Miami (a Fox affiliate), buys Channel 7 (a CBS affiliate) in Boston. They bring to the Boston station the concepts and ideas of their Miami news product--that is, a crisp, content-based design rather than one...
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Acquisition;
Change;
Decisions;
Design;
Television Entertainment;
Product;
Motivation and Incentives;
Value;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Boston
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and E. Scott Lathrop. "Sunbeam Television (A)." Harvard Business School Case 596-056, September 1995. (Revised October 1996.)
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Building a Legacy
insights to build a professional family office Establish the right structure, governance, and organizational design for a family office Make savvier financial decisions based on a deeper understanding of...
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- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
around issues of racism in the US and make long-term change. The team transformed the Anti-Racism Fund GoFundMe project into a nonprofit organization, ARF, and then set off to View Details
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All Industries
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
distribution centers. Initially, they don't have to make a big commitment to a huge factory, although if demand exceeds forecasts, they may have to." Time For Decisions Back in the classroom, after...
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Managing Innovation
countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Vice presidents, directors, and other senior managers...
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