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- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials The Chase Sapphire Reserve card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016. But what would be JP Morgan's next act be? State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders Index funds are the major... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) and Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985) (photo by Kathryn Elsesser) Don't let its name fool you: the Women's Venture Capital Fund is about profitability, and not social activism. Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) and Edith... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness
The United States is on a glide path to fiscal disaster, with experts projecting that the federal government will take in far less money than it spends--indefinitely. Our current fiscal policy is eroding competitiveness in several ways,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ipsita Dasgupta
I've lived in six different countries; four of them are home to some of the world's poorest people. Once I'd seen how little these people have in opportunities, possessions, and hope, I found it difficult to believe solely in the goals of making View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
limited partners begging to get in,” notes Wilcox. “Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals, and LPs are lining up to invest money in them. But the mediocre and poorer View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and powerful: bondholders put View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
What are the implications for entrepreneurs seeking funding given the current uncertain economic climate? A: The bad news is that raising money today is clearly much tougher than it was twenty-four months... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for investment managers to reload... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school’s gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
- Profile
Jeff Bussgang
the sum total of venture capital, it’s true that Boston is second to California,” says Jeff. “But when you look at the funding per capita – money funded per entrepreneur –... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
difficult to save money or establish a financial history. Goodwin-Groen’s career-long commitment to international development led her to start the Better Than Cash Alliance—now a consortium of 75 governments, corporations, and... View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
participants were given the option of donating money to the bundle of state chapters, or keeping the funds for themselves. The researchers then repeated the experiment, offering the bundle of four chapters... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Happy Campers: HBS Student Auction Helps Local Kids
CCA's annual board meeting in October, HBS students presented the group with the event's proceeds, the largest single donation the CCA received last year. The money will be used to fund scholarships to... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
Working Capital Fund to finance building projects and equipment purchases for labs and scientists. But he quickly discovered a major difficulty with the fund’s model: While projects were receiving full View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
students consider topics such as deal sourcing, due diligence, deal structuring, governance issues, and the all-important question of how private equity firms create value. And in a mini-module on fundraising, “ABRY Fund V” examines a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Today, we can move our money around from one mutual fund to another, at very low cost. As a result, money flows from funds that aren’ t doing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
long haul? The essays in this bilingual volume discuss this question in four interrelated themes: polities, social transformations, wealth and well-being, and culture, belief, and practice. The Fund Industry: How Your View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
College Daze
UPromise, a family of typical income and spending patterns might accrue as much as $50,000 after fifteen years of participation in the company's program. "Finding money for college is one of the biggest problems families face these days,"... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)
companies don’t find success but still have valuable IP. That IP tends to be lost, or picked up for little money by companies that don't contribute to the competitiveness of the technology industry,” says Laguë. “I like salvaging them,... View Details