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17 Apr 2019
News

Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

institutional investors to fill the funding needs.” Since 2014, Coady has worked with groups like Credit Suisse to convene an invitation-only conference of investors to identify investable, repeatable,... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Iron Lady

OTEH: “Local and international investors need to understand that things have changed” in Nigeria. On the fiftieth anniversary of Nigeria’s independence, one key player who wants to see the oil-rich country truly fulfill its promise is... View Details

Keywords: Finance

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and related supporting tools, technology and services organizations. Students can work on projects alone or in teams within the course. The field course will explore four different modules: Pre-Requisites to... View Details

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

What resources are recommended for this course? Suggested Resources Private Equity - Funds, Firms, Transactions, etc. Pitchbook
Information on companies, deals, funds, View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline

rates have remained low and corporate profits high - a situation, he warned, that is not likely to go on indefinitely. Underlining the transitory and cyclical nature of business, America's most successful investor advised his audience... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference

European angel investing firm Go Beyond Ltd., advised aspiring women entrepreneurs to have a clear vision not only of the business plan but also of how they would run the enterprise. “Make sure you know who you are and what you believe in, ” she said. “The View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Sep 2015
News

Funding Progress Back Home

global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and friends are looking for... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

The $4 Billion Question

between generating wealth for the firm’s investment professionals via the fee stream, which is strictly a function of how many dollars you manage, and the investors in the firm — the so-called limited partners, who make money only when... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-106.pdf Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model Authors:Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman, and William Schmidt Abstract We investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

here. What on earth is going on? Brian Sykes (MBA 2020) and Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020) THE PROBLEM The combination of systematic bias and outright prejudice have played a huge role in preventing underrepresented founders and investors from... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

Economic Research, Gompers teamed with Will Gornall of the University of British Columbia, Steven N. Kaplan of the University of Chicago, and Stanford University’s Ilya A. Strebulaev to survey more than 1,000 venture capitalists at 900 firms from late June to mid-July.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

effective tax rate. Both investors and MBA students can benefit from the research, Pérez Cavazos says. Because executives’ preferences should be sticky over time, investors can get a sense of how the company... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

industry. As more firms go public, an industry is 'put on the map'; analysts begin to track these groups of firms and to compare their values, developing a marketplace for investors which, in turn, spurs the growth of the firms."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

12 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

perhaps the most cited rationale by investors and firms seeking to explain their ambitions for operations on the Continent. Yet in the intervening decade since The Economist published its namesake issue, many View Details

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Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity

funding. 44% of tech founders said they received funding from angel investors , with 57% of white men in this group receiving $1 million or more, compared to 52% of men of color, 31% of white women, and 28% of women of color. Proportion... View Details

12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

Business School Case 211-026 One of the world's leading investors in distressed companies, Oaktree Capital Management, is contemplating a "loan to own" investment in the debt of Countrywide plc, a financially troubled... View Details