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- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
and Lisa Falzone, cofounder and CEO of Revel Systems on a panel discussion entitled “Entrepreneurship: Gender, Adversity and Success” at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston on Monday. Hyman recalled that her foray into seeking venture View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
organizational tasks, and managerial processes. Digitally enabled outcomes, rather than units sold or services performed, are the basis of new business models. For example, GE originally sold capital goods, and then became a contract...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
businesses that could be created and, instead, maybe the business that I should create is an investment firm to promote founders entering the space and innovation in the sector.” She discovered that investor Alan Patricof, founder of Apax Partners and venture View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of California divided into six...
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Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
of talent—connections that are further refined by an AI engine that ensures an optimal fit of both technical and soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point of the crisis, housing prices fell by 31.8 percent. This...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the United States alone, an estimated...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
using capital as a source of leverage for social benefit,” he said. Acknowledging his optimism about the future, Greenblatt declared, “Young people are looking for ways to engage. Service is the new greed.”...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations about the region, but the high...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
What’s Next for You?
important to go into your next career with your eyes wide open.” To optimize the chances for a smooth transition, panelists offered the following advice: Make a life plan. Take an honest look at the future and write down what you want to...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
includes real-life case examples, Connecting the Dots gives managers the tools to make the most of their technology- and projectrelated investments as they optimize expenditures on the new business frontier. — Deborah Blagg Selling China...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
entrepreneurship flourish in many sectors, expanding beyond just the software, high-tech type of startup, into financial services and the future of blockchain, for example. We want to support people going into many different spaces during the course of their careers...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded startup and venture...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will consume...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
their aspiration. Over dinner, Seth spoke passionately to the group about capitalism and the responsibilities of business leaders. His words resonated with many and I am delighted to share them here, for all the School’s alumni, with his...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
long-term proposition that often requires years of complicated research, negotiation, construction, and drilling before a drop of oil or a penny of profit is produced. The capital required to initiate and to sustain this far-flung...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
lessons from Schwarzman’s life and career that includes creating one of the world’s largest investment firms, and becoming an active philanthropist. The result is an empowering, entertaining, and inspiring guide to optimizing ambition,...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
January 31 to February 1. Before a Burden Hall audience of some nine hundred students, business leaders, and academics, keynote speaker Dr. Edgar Cheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, voiced optimism for the British colony's...
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