Capital Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2013
News

Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line

says Hourdequin. "Another set consists of those who have a mission or impact orientation: they are looking for a financial return, but they also want to direct their capital to investment pools that help to achieve good environmental and... View Details

Keywords: Louisa Rigali; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

capital markets and firms’ social, environmental, and governance performance. Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, also had ties to HBS before joining the faculty.... View Details

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VCPE Database Comparison | Baker Library

contact info but goes beyond C Suite) HBS alumni screening variable? Yes No No Yes Research/reports Emerging Industries reports, Morningstar reports Private Capital Compensation Report; other reports on private View Details

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

chose to host conference calls in English, placing themselves on shaky linguistic ground. The recent working paper Capital Market Consequences of Non-Plain English in Conference Calls of Foreign Firms... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 May 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)

market more than superficially. There’s a tension between the way product designers want people to behave and the way that people actually behave. Users will usually take the shortcut to whatever solution they want. The best entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

as they participate in and shape cross-border trade and investment. Career Focus This course should interest any student who plans to work for a firm with transnational interests or investments or students with significant interests in the global and domestic politics... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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GlobalData Disruptor | Baker Library

GlobalData Disruptor Market research database covering technology disruption across multiple industries. Read More GlobalData's Disruptor database covers technology focused innovations, trends, consumer insights and venture View Details

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

use tools they already had, or they neglected to request new tools to meet the challenges of an evolving financial system." -David Moss Among the proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

companies today, capital is not the resource that constrains growth. Global capital markets have opened up the supply side, while widespread excess industry capacity has... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

Danish labor market across time (the data tracks when a person enters a company and when he or she moves between periods of employment and self-employment), Nanda and Sørensen found that rates of entrepreneurship are higher in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Reshaping Competition

Where can I find resources for my Reshaping Competition paper? Company Research: Capital IQ: Database by provider detailed company information (financials, market performance, deals and... View Details

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

in wind and solar power generation and is committed to driving the transition to a decarbonized energy future. As one of the top five largest capital deployers in the U.S., NextEra has been a driving force behind significant investments... View Details

9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Nov 2018

HBX Leading with Finance

Gain a deep understanding of the principles of finance a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to communicate those decisions to key stakeholders. Program Dates: November 7, 2018 - December 19, 2018 View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

government is. We need that $2 trillion stimulus package, but we also need, and do not have, a viable safety net. A strong democratically elected, transparent, and responsive government is vital to free-market capitalism because it not... View Details

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech it can take eight to ten years to develop a product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring it to market," says Higgins. "Therefore, funding is... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

October 2000 (Revised February 2007)
Case

Harvard Management Company and Inflation-Protected Bonds, The

By: Luis M. Viceira

In March 2000, the board of The Harvard Management Co. (HMC) approved significant changes in the policy portfolio determining the long-run allocation policy of the Harvard University endowment. These changes included a sharp reduction of the allocation to U.S. equities... View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Investment Portfolio; Investment Funds; Asset Management; Corporate Governance; Capital Markets; Financial Services Industry; United States

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February 1995 (Revised September 1995)
Case

The Bourland Companies

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

Michael Bourland, the president of the Bourland Companies, needs to refinance two properties, an office building in southern New Hampshire and a retail property in Massachusetts. He is considering three alternatives: a renewal of a bank mini-perm, a 15-year mortgage... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Property; Mortgages; Family Business; Financial Management; Family Ownership; Real Estate Industry; Massachusetts; North and Central America