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  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Doing It Your Way

it's possible to build a very attractive company that might ultimately be acquired or go public." The reason for the good news, Sahlman observes, is "there is more startup capital available today than there ever has been in recorded... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

those days. There were very few VC-backed startups and not much of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. It was what author and venture capitalist Alex Lazarow would define as a “frontier market”—a place where entrepreneurs face significant View Details
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

strategy-proof) student optimal mechanism, if the same student preferences would have been revealed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-076.pdf Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

do not receive capital allocations for building or leasing facilities, which represent significant start-up and recurring costs. They must either reduce what they spend on teaching and learning or secure private funding to make the rent.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 24 Jul 2013
  • Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the private... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

it faced huge capital expenditures associated with constructing its manufacturing facilities. The company was at a crossroads: it had to decide whether to partner with IBM or align with other firms as it tried to keep up with Intel.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

a purely social act with economic considerations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-012.pdf Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery Authors:David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

unfavorable expectations face an additional constraint: their prices and first-party content investment need to be such that low (zero) participation equilibria are eliminated. This additional constraint typically leads them to invest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

mission, and meeting the expectations of a demanding capital market. Additionally, Compartamos' Co-CEOs must decide how to face the highly polarized reactions in the microfinance industry to its IPO. In the process, the case examines the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these labor adjustment costs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

that does not come as easily to public company leaders, with the exception of the higher-ambition-type leaders we studied. Public company leaders have the constraints of capital market expectations for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

competitive standing of their domestic pharmaceutical industries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-118.pdf Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

ventures during the venture capital boom of the late 1990s was selecting areas that had no staying power, such as Web calendars or Web-dispatched limousine services. Over time, it was inevitable that these new niches would merge with... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

determine the equilibrium supply chain structure. These operational tradeoffs arise as a result of the geographic constraints posed by the availability of arable land and the spatial population distribution. We model the interdependent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

income rather than to maximize the capital value of the savings. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/the-crisis-in-retirement-planning/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review Sustainability in the Boardroom: Lessons from Nike's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel