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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
from one town, New Bedford. The reason actually has nothing to do with them having better ships or them having better anything. It's only because of their invention of a new financing mechanism, whereby merchants were able to take money... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
it's less clear how companies sway the regulatory agencies that enforce them, which are more isolated from the direct effects of money or persuasion. “If a company can get enough farmers to support the product and they write letters, then... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
public health insurance market might work, imagine an automobile dealership run by the feds that sells cars made by Toyota and others, along with cars made by the government itself, manufactured with money borrowed from our children. As... View Details
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
something much larger than that. We’re part of the Do-It-For-Me Revolution, a phrase coined by Tech Crunch this year. What about financing? We haven’t reached out for funding yet but we will be in the next few months. We have an... View Details
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
Competition in San Francisco, a crown jewel for startups. Each of the prizes carried $50,000 in award money and while $100,000 in funding is deeply welcome, the affirmation of their concept was even more... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Richard Branson, where we did shark tagging. We funded a shark tagging expedition in the British Virgin Islands. And there was an effort ongoing, that we merged into, to provide the information required to show that sharks were important... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
makers or B2B service businesses, which is a growing segment. “Decisions we make over the next several years will influence large parts of our financial services systems.” Only a relatively tiny number of US small businesses are the high-growth ones View Details
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Casey Gerald
businesses both tactically and strategically, the goal is to have an impact by taking the learning from inside the hallowed halls of business schools out to those who could really use the guidance and insight. Getting funding for this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
buy key words and use search engine optimization. There’s social media, too. Kimpton has a Facebook page, and a lot of our chefs use Twitter. We haven’t spent money on national ads to date, since we’ve been pretty effective through word... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
well and maintains a healthy relationship with the environment has a higher probability of being economically sustainable," a Santander executive observed. Can money be made while saving the earth? Can the private sector accomplish what... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
regulation—prohibition, in fact—for federally funded research into an area of great promise while, at the same time, we have no regulation at all in the field of reproduction. Clearly, I wouldn't want to see tight constraints put on... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
Visibility of best practices. People are realizing the enormous amounts of money they've been leaving on the table in supply chain management because they have not been doing things right. So we're really talking about a need for greater... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
risk implied by the need to roll over its debt more often. We then extend the model to allow private financial intermediaries to compete with the government in the provision of money-like claims. We argue that if there are negative externalities associated with private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
permissions to travel through the country, and Lamb could not obtain them. Lamb planned to continue on illegally, but Moore and several of the others refused to do so, and the lawsuits began. Moore lost most of the $6,000 he had invested in the trip, paid from a... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
saved customers money and their strong brands generated more traffic and sales but that most retailers, looking only at gross margins, missed this added value. Pepsi managers struggled to craft a strategy that would convince retailers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
York, Baer had closely monitored the Giants’ plummeting finances and their unsuccessful attempts to get San Francisco voters to approve funds for a new stadium. After East Coast business hours and with Tisch’s blessing, he began... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
comment is spoken in an offhand way, but that ability to understand how a business will scale has been a key factor in some of DFJ’s enormous multiple returns. Today, DFJ spans affiliate networks in more than 30 cities around the world with over $7 billion in capital... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
consider applying. For some of those students, the largest barrier in considering HBS may be a financial one. Such was the case for both Solana of Mexico and Ruwende of Zimbabwe. "I think the biggest challenge was to get all the funds... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey