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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
recalls. “There was a cult of youth, and I realized that I should work for myself because I wasn’t going to find an appropriate position at that point.” Bemis, who had experience as a venture capitalist, decided to focus full-time on further private investment,...
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Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
unnoticed. As CEO of Impromptu Gourmet, a start-up approaching its one-year anniversary, Max Polaner (MBA '97) knew that his company could not afford a huge donation, but he decided to give all proceeds for a month from dessert purchases...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
takes the man’s point of view in hopes of rebalancing a debate too often confined to women, to political correctness, or to conforming reluctantly to equality laws. From Start-Up to Global Success: The Zensar Story by Ganesh Natarajan...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
start-up stage of development. A second case on strategic planning at NFTE was recently published. Pathways to Independence: Welfare-to-Work at Marriott International This case highlights Marriott's welfareto- work program, which trained...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
more so in the future will include connecting participants to a broader array of content and experiences that we offer at the School. Alumni Engagement The world is changing rapidly, and I need to keep learning to keep up. In start-up...
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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
was fierce, and there were always thousands of start-ups looking to enter the sector. Founder and CEO Ma Huateng (“Pony” Ma) remarked, “In America, when you bring an idea to market you usually have several months before competition pops...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
banking and - as a new owner of an apartment - threw herself into interior design and antiques, taking courses and attending events and lectures. More recently, she's been helping develop The Franklin Report, a start-up publication that...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and society, and that’s where I caught this start-up bug. And so my first big start-up adventure was actually with a company called Kaltura, which was creating an open-source video platform. I spent about...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and manage them as if you’re a start-up when you got 100,000 employees. And not every solution is an engineering solution. So it takes them a long time. The problem is, the perception, that because these companies are so wealthy and been...
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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Case 412-044 The mission of the Global Business School Network (GBSN) is to strengthen business education for the developing world. The organization was transitioning out of its start-up phase and wants to shift its focus from capacity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
range from Fortune 100 and start-up companies to not-for-profits and municipalities. He has helped position Bangkok, Thailand, as a global fashion capital and FootJoy as the number one shoe and glove brand in golf. With FootJoy, he notes,...
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- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
find that the data he needs simply does not exist. The case follows him and his team as they take on challenges as the start-up evolves and develops. Topics include acquiring data, web-based prototyping to understand customer preferences,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
salinity; and poses strategic choices for a start-up company operating at the intersection of business, agriculture, and climate change. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709019 CalPERS'...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
whole episode has certainly highlighted the manufacturer’s duty to validate the quality of suppliers.” For the full story of how SmartPak got its start, years before this bump in the start-up road, you’d want to meet Westley, the...
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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
Pfizer), placing them in scientific advisory kinds of roles. In contrast, people coming out of Baxter were more likely to take on management positions in these start-up firms, reflecting Baxter's entrepreneurial career imprint. Similar...
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by Mallory Stark
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
eastern Europe. We tend to forget this sort of entrepreneurialism, somewhat blinded by the light of the start-up culture of the United States and Silicon Valley. Q: Some great but autocratic German entrepreneurs including Alfred Krupp and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
“Given that a nonprofit has fewer resources, it requires a start-up mentality.” That challenge, along with Habitat’s ongoing growth and evolution as an organization, promise to keep Song engaged for the long haul. “I’ve been blown away by...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
a start-up founded by journalists, publishes enhanced ebook singles as well as the software to create enhanced ebooks. The company is currently engaged in both publishing and software development, but as they raise funding and grow, must...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
high because website owners would need to recode data and content on their existing sites, agree on ontologies for structuring information, and develop new tools for querying Semantic Web data. The case profiles two start-ups with very...
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Martha Lagace