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  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55493 Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment By: Li, Jin, Gary P. Pisano, and Feng Zhu Abstract— The scalability of a marketplace depends on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2022
  • News

Like-Minded

seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

Concurrently, Lewis and I, plus several others, formed the first U.S.-style venture fund in Asia, in Hong Kong, with Lewis as the working M.D., to do startup/early stage investments — usually the transfer of... View Details
Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 22 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

MBA Students Reflect on Their Summer Internships

Madeline KeulenAugust 2, 2018"I’ve spent my summer as an MBA Associate at Victress Capital, an early-stage venture capital (VC) firm focused on achieving outsized returns through investing in diverse... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Faculty Books

as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a much larger, more influential part of the global economy over the past two decades. The authors—Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of View Details
Keywords: Professor Amy C. Edmonson; Professor Boris Groysberg; Professor Josh Lerner; Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon; Professor Leslie A. Perlow; Professor of Management Practice Felda Hardymon;; social media; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Feedback

bring much-needed accountability into the system? —Jim Mills (MBA 1986) Tim Draper’s investment in the school voucher campaign was not for naught. It caused the legislature to panic and pass a surprisingly progressive charter school law... View Details
  • Profile

Stephanie Atiase

HBS came in the summer before her senior year of college, when she arrived on campus as part of the Summer Venture in Management Program. "I realized HBS was a place where I could augment my undergraduate studies in business – and... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

immense potential that sit at the intersection of life sciences and business. After studying Chemical Engineering and Finance at Penn, I worked at the healthcare investment banking group of BofA Merrill Lynch and then at a healthcare... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2014
  • News

Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs

KRAUSS It's the lessons she's learned from life, not just as a businesswoman and a physician, that have allowed Dr. Marlene Krauss to see opportunities other venture investors missed. HBS taught Krauss (MBA 1967) how to lead and how to... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Management; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • August 1999 (Revised January 2002)
  • Case

Brita Products Company, The

By: John A. Deighton
Clorox's Brita skillfully exploits a tide of water safety concerns, growing a home water (filtration) business from inception to a 15% U.S. household penetration in ten years. The dilemma in the case arises as the period of increasing returns seems to be drawing to a... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Acquisition; Retention; Safety; Natural Environment; Emerging Markets; Investment Return; Equity; Demand and Consumers; United States
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  • August 2008
  • Case

Thoma Bravo - Citect Corporation Take-Private

In 2006, Citect Corporation, a publicly traded Australian software company, was the target of a takeover battle between a financial sponsor and a strategic buyer. Thoma Bravo, the U.S.-based private equity firm, had to decide on its acquisition strategy in the face of... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Privatization; Valuation; Australia
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  • 16 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

American Competitiveness site where resources, commentary, and solutions are showcased. Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project is another must-visit-site to better understand the complex problems facing the US. One good way to observe a culture may be to... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established firms do appear to prefer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

with a recruiter in an HBS corridor in 1969 led Hawes to a small Connecticut company that focused on insurance company mergers and acquisitions. In 1972, he ventured out on his own and founded Insurance View Details
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

HBSAA of Israel Sponsors Middle East Outreach

the HBSAAI recently released the sixth edition of the Annual Journal of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Israel. The journal includes articles on U.S. venture capitalists who are investing... View Details
  • spring 2004
  • Article

Multinationals and Linkages: An Empirical Investigation

By: Laura Alfaro and Andres Rodriguez-Clare
Several recent papers have used plant-level data and panel econometric techniques to carefully explore the existence FDI externalities. One conclusion that emerges from this literature is that it is difficult to find evidence of positive externalities from... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Relationships; Multinational Firms and Management; Brazil; Chile; Venezuela; Mexico
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Company databases: which database to choose? | Baker Library

private equity and venture capital firms, funds, private companies, and deals. Subscription includes access to Preqin reports. LSEG Workspace Availability: HBS intranet; In-Library for Authorized Baker Visitors* Strengths/Unique Features:... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe

But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment banking group at... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

A Casual Approach to Success

hardly any learning curve,” he says, still sounding surprised. “It was a good fit.” The investment business changed during his tenure at Lehman, and in 1976 he left and moved to Boston to launch Hellman, Ferri View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 14 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

change. Before HBS, she spent two years at Teach for America, two years with an impact investment venture capital fund in India, and a year in Denmark as a Fulbright Research Fellow studying social return on... View Details