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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
documents trends in college and university endowment returns and investments in the United States between 1992 and 2005 using data on more than a thousand schools. Such endowments have generally performed well over this time period, with a median growth View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
Japan consented. We conclude that Chimerica cannot persist for much longer in its present form. As in the 1970s, sizeable changes in exchange rates are needed to rebalance the world economy. A continuation of Chimerica at a time of dollar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
decade, money from around the world has poured into the United States. Despite massive investments, when adjusted for inflation, U.S. GDP grew slowly, with much of the growth from professional and business services—including real estate,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete, says Teixeira. After lobbying and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has racked up an enviable 20... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna See full profiles and more photographs here. Marla Beck (MBA/MPA 1998) CEO and Cofounder, Bluemercury Inc. First job: Accounting work in her dad’s real estate office. “I had a 10-key and... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
downfall. They hoped to achieve a return on investment that exceeded both the average returns of the venture capital industry and Xerox's corporate hurdle rate for evaluating new projects. Not only was the level of compensation analogous... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Summing Up Less is increasingly more, at least in the minds of customers, according to nearly every respondent to this month's column. However, some cite product complexity as the cause of rising real and psychological consumer... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- Web
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015) - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
Business School Case 111-059 Argentine government claims inflation rate is 8%, but others claim it is double that rate. Analyst attempts to adjust the company's financial statements for inflation. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
Consistent with the long-term goal of preserving the value of the endowment in real terms (after inflation) and generating a predictable stream of available income, the University’s targeted annual payout range is between 5.0 and 5.5... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
interactive database tracking 16 categories of policies announced in each country, from rate cuts and lending to quantitative easing, the large-scale asset purchases and balance sheet expansion by central banks. The database also includes... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
two reasons. First, they are systematically lower than the returns of American outbound FDI. By way of example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed, over the last 25 years, the... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
meet product and service providers more than halfway on this issue? One respondent is convinced that "patience is a frontier of competition." If this is true, there may be a real competitive advantage awaiting the Internet-based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected inflation, the "nominal-real covariance" of inflation, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid, too, with Congress assessing... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
and Australia; and industries include automotive, hospitality, real estate, manufacturing, and finance. Their biggest concerns fell into five categories: Cash flow and liquidity. “Payments [were] not coming in, but we had to make our... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
the long-term goal of preserving the value of the endowment in real terms (after inflation) and generating a predictable stream of available income, the University’s targeted annual payout range is 5.0 to 5.5 percent. The payout View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and costs. I don’t know what our energy system will look like in the future, but the future will be better than we can imagine because technology is going to improve, and the rate of improvement is going to be faster than anything we’ve... View Details