Capital Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

entrepreneurial community's success has attracted capital on an unprecedented scale. The venture capital market and the market for initial public... View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

01 Jun 2014
News

issue of the Journal of Financial Economics. "It might seem obvious that legislation that either supports or challenges an industry would have predictable financial fallout for a state's firms engaged in that industry," says Cohen. "But the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

Gil Addo

The Huffington Post named RubiconMD one of the “Five Companies Defining the Future of Healthcare” and, in 2020, AllianceBernstein ranked RubiconMD number 12 on its list of the top 25 private companies disrupting healthcare. The company raised over $40 million in View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Leading with the Long View

As an undergraduate, I studied liberal arts. Coming to HBS, I wanted to learn fundamental business content, like finance and accounting. I was really surprised to come across the Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism course taught by... View Details

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Golosov,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2023
News

Taking His Shot

Before Matija Pecotić (MBA 2019) beat Jack Sock—a tennis star once ranked 8th in the world—at a Florida tournament in February, he had to ask his boss for time off to compete. "I had to send an email to the whole team. [My boss] let me off," Pecotić, the director of... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

uncertainty? More broadly, why does the startup ecosystem contain so many market failures that lead to biases and inequities – particularly in terms of access to capital for female entrepreneurs and... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Truth in Lending

economies, that financial data often doesn’t exist. Without a way to evaluate credit applicants, lenders are not inclined to make the type of small-business loans—for instance, just $5,000 for working capital or $20,000 for machinery—that... View Details

Keywords: April White

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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), and Harvard Business School Online (HBSO) leverage the intellectual capital created by the faculty—including case studies, seminars, books, articles, and online content—to educate leaders and influence... View Details

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

will be highly valued? How should you negotiate the rights to your intellectual capital when it can be codified into an infinitely scalable AI model? This course teaches you how information and artificial intelligence affect what deals... View Details

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

does it work? How can entrants disrupt market leaders, and what can market leaders do to avoid disruption? Who is our ideal customer, and how can selecting the wrong customers derail your growth? What’s the... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Merton Named University Professor

Professor of Management. In 1988, he joined the HBS faculty. Merton's research is focused on developing finance theory in the areas of capital markets and financial institutions. Along with fellow Nobel... View Details

Profile

Adam Kanner

laptops. Savvy entrepreneurs often find opportunity where others find flaws. For Adam Kanner, a former vice president for marketing and business development for the National Basketball Association, the empty seats triggered a startup... View Details

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

uniform and are typically assessed on final goods. However, trends in capital taxation are mixed, and capital income tax rates remain well above the zero level recommended by theory. Moreover, some of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

into an underserved market by allowing clients to invest as little as $5,000. Wealthfront doesn’t even charge a fee for assets of less than $10,000—and even after that charges a 0.25 percent fee, as opposed to fees of 2 to 3 percent by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

capital through their network. Results would also help IC members discuss the larger question about the relationship of financial returns and social returns. In short, should capital providers expect some... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship

Education Statistics (NCES) - Primary federal entity in the U.S. for collecting and analyzing data related to education; produced by the U.S. Department of Education. IBISWorld - market research reports on a wide range of industries... View Details

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Public companies: comparative financial ratios

Where do I find comparative financial ratios of public companies in an industry? In Capital IQ: For broad industry sectors (energy, materials, consumer discretionary, consumer stables, healthcare, financial, information technology,... View Details

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Evgeny Koudryavtsev

"Thanks to my great mentors, early on I got a lot of responsibility and worked on a few landmark transactions," he says, "including the world's fifth-largest IPO." Seeking more buy-side experience, Evgeny was one of the few people hired for the... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019

would in large part be considered as cost of goods sold. These expenses include direct costs for staff compensation, specialized outside professional services in information technology and other functional areas, marketing costs, and... View Details

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