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- 01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
meetings with representatives of firms such as Kleiner Perkins, Summit Partners, and Pacific Venture Group. "At Pacific Venture," says Weil, "Managing Partner John S. Lewis (MBA '74) had just raised a new $100-million fund focused on...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice
crowdfunding. We asked Susan Wolf Ditkoff (MBA 2001), a partner at The Bridgespan Group—nonprofit advisor to mission-driven organizations and leaders—and author of “Galvanizing Philanthropy” (Harvard Business Review, November 2009), to...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
profit-making; unlike financial performance, there is no common currency of measurement and aggregation," Ebrahim explains. "The value created by social-sector organizations accrues to society rather than to a set of owners or shareholders, which raises issues of...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
and my fellow Indian community member’s friends, families, mentors, partners are struggling to stay alive, and this is the time to stand up for them just like they supported and invested in us.” MAY 12 After watching the COVID-19 crisis...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
developed an imaging material comparable to paper, it would need to partner with others to build the display modules, handheld devices, digital content libraries, and e-commerce services to take advantage of it. And before sales could...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
limits to board effectiveness, capital market intermediaries, and the role of management education. These highly informative sessions stimulated new thinking and will form a basis for ongoing research during the coming year. Corporate...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
groups such as Boko Haram, which at least promise something to eat. Kola Masha Managing Director, Doreo Partners Masha's Babban Gona system turns subsistence farmers into commercial growers using a franchise model that provides everything...
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- 15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's predecessor is actually named...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Lorsch and coauthors Martin Lipton and Theodore Mirvis — partners of the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz — characterized Schumer’s bill as a misguided attempt at reform and blamed stockholders, not management, for the...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
lot of the things that were attributed to Peter Drucker were Doriot’s ideas,” says Charles P. Waite (MBA ’59), a former student who went on to work at ARD for many years and was a founding partner of Greylock, the Boston-based venture...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead
faculty members hired this year, eight are people of color. We became the first academic partner to the OneTen initiative, which aims to create jobs and career paths with family-sustaining wages for one million Black individuals in the...
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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases, articles, and papers on Chinese business, as well as his recent book, Can China Lead? Reaching the View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
we collectively use them, and that also have no natural limits on how much you can use them—things like computation, communication, biotechnology, renewable energy, and energy storage. “The environment and human well-being are way bigger...
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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
syndrome (MERS), a coronavirus that causes fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The spread of MERS had been limited since its emergence in Saudi Arabia in 2012, with only about 2,500 total cases globally, but one in three infections...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
our characters to consumers. But we were short of cash. As a result, our movie licensing deals with studio partners were not always to Marvel’s advantage. Coming out of bankruptcy is like finishing chemotherapy: You are theoretically...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
difficult for them." —Constantine von Hoffman covers business and finance for CBSNews.com and IT security for CIO magazine. HBS Clubs Make the Connection Nonprofits are among the most streamlined of organizations because they must make the best of View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
spiritual pursuit so much as it is a $16 billion global brand, with a number of HBS alumni involved in that transformation. Once limited to the devotees of a handful of swamis and gurus who introduced the practice to the West in waves...
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Deborah Halber
- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Not limited to college graduates or people in business, this book reveals practices relevant to anyone starting their career in an organization, whether it be nonprofit, professional, or governmental. From Startup to Exit: An Insider’s...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
capitalism.” “From the ’70s to the late ’80s, real estate was fundamentally driven by entrepreneurs with private capital sources,” says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
test my limits and spark my sense of purpose. When the Peace Corps turned me down (it typically requires a college degree), I moved to Latin America. The experience blew open my sense of self and what I wanted to do with my life. Ever...
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