Filter Results
:
(9,151)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(9,151)
- People (43)
- News (2,472)
- Research (5,048)
- Events (12)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (2,975)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(9,151)
- People (43)
- News (2,472)
- Research (5,048)
- Events (12)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (2,975)
- 18 May 2012
- News
Where Venture Capital is Heading
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Breyer Elected to Harvard Board
Jim Breyer (MBA 1987), a leading venture capitalist known for his expertise in innovative technology and media, has been elected to join the President and the Harvard Corporation as of July 1. Breyer is a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm with offices...
View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
"Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship." —Abdu'l-Bahá The field of economics is rife with the concept of "capital." There's financial capital—cold hard cash or cashable assets....
View Details
Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
BankBoston in January, is impressed not only by the size of the deal but perhaps even more by what it represents: the crossing of industry lines. "With this merger, universal banking - long the style of major banks in many other countries...
View Details
Keywords:
Eileen K. McCluskey
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
Blagg: "Disruptive innovation" is a term you've used in your analyses of other industries, but what does it mean in the context of the health-care industry? Clayton Christensen: People think they know what disruptive innovation means, but...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
thinks, “God, don’t let there be more.” That day’s events signaled for Cohen, the Undersecretary of State for Management, and for other State Department employees, that the world had changed. The two embassy attacks killed more than 220...
View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Private Equity and COVID-19
- 13 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Long-Run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
- Working Paper Summaries
How do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?
- 14 Apr 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps
- 09 Mar 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship
- 03 Dec 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Why CalSTRS Chooses to Engage with the Gun Industry
Keywords:
Financial Services
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
vasilchenko The odds investors face when deciding which startup to back are long enough to make any self-respecting poker player toss in their cards. “Most investors know that when they write a $50,000 check they have a 98 percent chance of never seeing that money...
View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
CEO Personality and Firm Policies
- 24 Mar 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches is identical. Attractive men are...
View Details
- 15 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Legislating Stock Prices
- 12 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
- 22 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
What’s Behind the Private Equity Boom?
Podcast with: Josh Lerner Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 15 min., 56 sec.
View Details