International Entrepreneurial Finance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs

Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

01 Mar 2010
News

How to Spur Prosperity

Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society

Josh Lerner, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at HBS, recently led a research study aimed at quantifying the economic and social contributions of Harvard University... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni Salute Bill Sahlman

alumni and friends.” Sahlman arrived at Soldiers Field in 1973, earned his MBA in 1975, and received his PhD in business economics in 1982. He then joined the faculty full-time. Sahlman’s impact includes developing the School’s View Details

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Michael Chu Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

entrepreneurship, for example, nine courses will be offered this year, including four that are new or substantially revised: Starting New Ventures, Running and Growing a Small Business, Entrepreneurial Marketing, and Management of the... View Details

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

several suggested that the next era of capitalism, an answer to both managers' and owners' capitalism, may be something we may call entrepreneurial capitalism. Paul Hudnut, who suggested the term, offered a prediction: "Just as many... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

approach when considering SOX," explains Srinivasan. The most worrisome part of the act on the business side was the mandate that required public companies to obtain an independent audit of their internal control practices. The cost... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

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Entrepreneurs Promise Signers - Alumni

right for them. This commitment is an affirmation of the importance of HBS in their entrepreneurial journey and of their desire to ensure that the School remains the preeminent institution for educating leaders. Mr. Kavikrut (MBA 2013),... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

course moving the whole country forward," said Andrea Silbert, of the Center for Women & Enterprise. A study by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, she said, found that countries that were View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

entrepreneurial environments. (The last factor in turn will be a function of tax policy, legal protections, and societal preferences.) However painful the short-run adjustments, these more fundamental factors are likely to be critical in... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

April 1998 (Revised January 2005)
Case

Bahtulism, Collapse, Resurrection? Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998

By: Huw Pill and Donald H. Mathis

Describes, in detail, events precipitating crises. Provides both conventional and new explanations of crises. Presents a chronology of crises as the events unfold, and a brief summary of four particular countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand) and their... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; International Finance; Development Economics; Thailand; Malaysia; South Korea; Indonesia

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Chapter

Rediscovering Functions in the MNC: The Role of Expertise in Firms' Response to Shifting Exchange Rates

By: D. Lessard and N. Nohria

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; International Finance

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25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

internal sources of revenue that can then finance their public goods and services – which means a strong local private sector that creates jobs and generates tax revenue. This interest in private sector... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

10 May 2019
News

Shining a Light on Black Brilliance

Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) is the MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. He teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course titled Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship. In this... View Details

Career Coach

Minoshka Narayan

Minoshka can guide students who are looking to pivot into tech and help them better understand how to utilize resources within and outside HBS. She has extensive writing experience and can review cover letters and resumes, and networking emails. Having worked in View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Peter Wendell (MBA '76)

Venture capitalist Peter C. Wendell (MBA '76) and his partners receive some 2,500 requests to back new entrepreneurial startups each year. In selecting the handful of seedlings he believes have the potential to flower into world-changing... View Details

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