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      • 06 Apr 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Disrupting the Waste Industry with Technology

      Rubicon began with a bold idea: create a cloud-based, full-service waste management platform, providing efficient service anywhere in the US. Their mobile app did for waste management what Uber had done for taxi service. Five years after the case’s publication, Harvard Business School Associate Professor Shai Bernstein and Rubicon founder and CEO Nate Morris discuss how the software startup leveraged technology to disrupt the waste industry and other enduring lessons of professor Bill Sahlman’s case about Rubicon.  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 12 Oct 1999
      • Research & Ideas

      Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

      by Garry Emmons

      Its phenomenal growth, based on its near-perfect fit with consumer needs and aspirations, has made the mutual fund one of this century's big success stories. How is it adapting to the age of the Internet and 21st century change? HBS Professors Jay O. Light and Peter Tufano and three alumni take a look at the state of the mutual fund industry 75 years after its beginnings in Boston's financial district. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

      • 12 Oct 1999
      • Research & Ideas

      Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

      For women in business today, there's much more to talk about than gender specific issues like dual career families or the glass ceiling. Women Leading Business, an HBS Executive Forum, brings together executive women—entrepreneurs and corporate leaders alike—for a different kind of conversation about strategy, decision-making and paths to success. In this interview, Professor Myra Hart talks about the program, and how it enhances both the personal and professional lives of senior-level businesswomen. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

      • 12 Oct 1999
      • Research & Ideas

      Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

      by Laurie Joan Aron

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      • 12 Oct 1999
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      Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

      by Peter K. Jacobs

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      Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

      by Thomas R. Eisenmann

      In this study of 470 founders/CEOs and their management practices, startups that employ lean startup techniques had better valuation outcomes. So did ventures that balanced hiring for skill versus attitude and, more broadly, made early efforts to professionalize human resource management.

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      A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates

      by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam

      This paper provides a framework for understanding how the detailed structure of financial intermediation affects foreign exchange rates.

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      How do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?

      by Juliane Begenau and Emil Siriwardane

      As state and local defined-benefit pensions increasingly shift capital from traditional asset classes to private-market investment vehicles, this analysis shows that public pensions investing in the same private-market fund can experience very different returns.

      • Research & Ideas

      Bill Gorge: Don't Fake It--Make It

      by Bill George

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