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- 09 Mar 2020
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Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship
- 03 Dec 2019
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Why CalSTRS Chooses to Engage with the Gun Industry
Keywords: Financial Services
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
vasilchenko The odds investors face when deciding which startup to back are long enough to make any self-respecting poker player toss in their cards. “Most investors know that when they write a $50,000 check they have a 98 percent chance of never seeing that money... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
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CEO Personality and Firm Policies
- 24 Mar 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches is identical. Attractive men are... View Details
- 15 Aug 2012
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Legislating Stock Prices
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom. Associate Professors Lauren H. Cohen... View Details
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
It's no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about the complexities and conflicts... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
- 22 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
What’s Behind the Private Equity Boom?
Podcast with: Josh Lerner Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 15 min., 56 sec. View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
Most of us have experienced the power of networks. There's the job found through a friend's sister's boyfriend, or the lifelong partner met through a neighbor's cousin. But how do networks play into business—particularly the relationship-rich industry of venture... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Bringing History into International Business
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Rakhshan Zahid
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? I came to HBS to switch tracks from finance to starting my own business. We have a course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, and in every class, we look at a new business from different industries: traditional... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Brittany Williams
Every summer from 7th grade through her senior year in high school, Brittany Williams went to science camp. “I was the kid who went to the NASA space camp—for fun!” Brittany enrolled at the University of Virginia to study aerospace engineering with the ultimate goal of... View Details
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John Whitehead | Baker Library
new businesses. His personal approach: he sought out and listened to the firm’s clients, identified new business lines, and over time developed these into major service offerings. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine the world of Goldman... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
that were bringing financial services and capital to the poor using a business framework rather than a philanthropic one. “That really struck a chord with me,” says Chorengel. “There are going to be multiple... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
Hunt: an influential figure in the shaping of financial management practices. Courtesy HBS Communications Professor emeritus Pearson Hunt, an authority on corporate finance whose research helped shape modern View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million Americans are one View Details
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