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- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
and New York," she says. Investing in entrepreneurs is smart for American competitiveness, says Karen Mills.Photo: iStockPhoto She also notes a lack of capital in America's supply chains, particularly... View Details
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David A. Frankel
return and also do seed rounds of a million dollars for core investments. Fund One ended up with 150 investments, approximately twenty of which were of the core variety with bigger checks. “We were off the charts lucky,” Frankel said about the opportunity to View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset management activities, Guichard... View Details
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HBS Course: Private Equity Finance
target="_blank">LSEG Workspace PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information. Generous data download limit. Capital IQ Data on PE transactions, public and private companies,... View Details
Lyman Stewart
Prior to starting the Hardison and Stewart Oil Company, the entity that later became Union Oil, Stewart engaged in several unsuccessful business ventures in the oil industry. At Union Oil, however, Stewart thrived as president, investing... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO (TN)
By: Michael Chu
Teaching Note for 308-094. View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
data/information Capital IQ - provides public and private company profiles and strong in company financials, capital transactions, etc. For a multimedia learning module on View Details
- November 2000 (Revised July 2019)
- Teaching Note
Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan
By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
Teaching Note for (9-198-088). View Details
- September 2009
- Teaching Note
iZumi (TN)
By: Robert F. Higgins
Teaching Note for [809105]. View Details
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Grupo Argos S.A.
Empowering Executives to Lead Collaboratively div class="shim15"/> "It became clear that we couldn't rely solely on capital or acquisition to be successful. We needed to invest in human View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
what guidelines might you suggest? —Norm Boone (MBA 1977) DITKOFF: At Bridgespan, we define impact investing as “investing capital to generate social impact in a way that also provides monetary returns.” As... View Details
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Private Equity - Screening for Portfolio Operations Roles
Investment Firm Type > PE/VC Investment Style Managed > PE/Buyouts Under the section Employment / Board select the following: Professional Job Functions > Operations Professional Use the check... View Details
Brandon Farwell
Brandon Farwell is a General Partner at Xfund. Prior to Xfund, he was an Investment Professional at DFJ focused on software investments including Box (NYSE: BOX), Yammer (acq., MSFT), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO),... View Details
Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
(HSPH) Innovative Problem Solving & Design Thinking in Healthcare (HSPH) Launching Tech Ventures (HBS) Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Learning (HGSE) Managing the Future of Work (HBS) Power and Influence for Positive Impact (HBS/HKS) Private View Details
- August 2008 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Nantero
By: William A. Sahlman, Dan Heath and Caroline Perkins
This case describes a decision confronting the founder of Nantero, a company developing a new semiconductor technology. The company needs to raise additional venture capital. Potential investors have competing visions for the company, and its business model. Some... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment; Product Development; Production; Technology; Semiconductor Industry
Sahlman, William A., Dan Heath, and Caroline Perkins. "Nantero." Harvard Business School Case 809-031, August 2008. (Revised December 2009.)
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations about the region, but the high... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
consultants, and investment bankers. It means more capital at work on water, roads, power, and efficiency. And that contributes to more human development, more economic development, plus LESS wasted energy,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
knighthood, recognizing his contributions to the venture capital industry.) Out of that study came a series of policy recommendations aimed at creating a sustainable system for investments in deprived areas,... View Details