Informal Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

principal at Troy, a venture capital firm investing in what we believe are the most transformational technology companies. We do this across the spectrum––from our early-stage seed and Series A fund all the way through our two later-stage... View Details

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

your photographs captioned? Can site text be increased in size? Do these questions deepen or become inestimably more complex if axes of race, gender, class, ability, (in)accessibility and any others are applied? If design is invested in... View Details

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

people, and activities across numerous self-governing enterprises in ways that are advantageous for the group as well as for the designer's own firm or community. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-100.pdf Platform Competition under Asymmetric View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine

instance, would be something to bridge the gap, to try and upregulate, to make use of the silenced part of the gene. To use those, you have to be very specific and very targeted. Knowing where the mutations are in the gene, knowing is he producing any dystrophin, how... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

miracle. Professor David B. Yoffie served as informal moderator and faculty chair. Global Gathering Early in the opening session on April 6, conference chairman Robert Piccus and HBS Dean Kim B. Clark welcomed the international group,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act

thought needed additional investment of time and resources which was fundamentally what to do with carbon dioxide. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast DM:... View Details

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like):... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

Demonstrated commitment to and impact in communities of color in the US, including but not limited to: Work that addresses disparities in communities of color Work to enact change in programs and policies that impact communities of color Grassroots, formal, and View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

what effective green industrial policy might look like as well as pitfalls such as international conflict to help mobilize effective business investments to create and grow markets for low-carbon technologies. Former Racial Equity Fellows... View Details

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

investments signal a real urgency. Jim Matheson: I think in the last 10 years, we've seen now not only the measurable rise of greenhouse gas emissions, we've seen the good work of the IPCC, the International Panel on Climate Change and... View Details

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

slower to recover than other European nations. Government has focused on lowering taxes, decreasing regulation, and imposing fiscal austerity, but not really addressed deeper weaknesses such as overstretched infrastructure and limited View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

showing how certain investors spend a lot of time in private meetings with corporate executives—and how this gives the investors an unfair advantage, in spite of Federal regulations that are supposed to level the investment playing field.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply. Doerr, whose Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech, launching Venrock’s Internet practice... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

It also contains materials on the branch offices and the management and administration of the company from the New York office. Collection Guide Harris C. Fahnestock Papers, 1855–1914 . Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School. The papers of... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

are interested in investing in startups. The class focuses on pre-product-market fit technology-based ventures in a range of information technology-based sectors. Business models covered include SaaS,... View Details

06 May 2019
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Startup Talk in Chicago

Clubs News Clubs News “For entrepreneurs to succeed, they must stay humble.” This was just one of the takeaways from the HBS Club of Chicago’s (HBSCC) recent conversation with Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of investment firm PSP... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each unit will focus on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank borrowing and investments by small,... View Details