Fund Of Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's top five... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

managed to reduce their hospital visits by 40 percent and their hospital bills by 50 percent. Several hospitals, including Boston's Massachusetts General, are now using government funding to finance better management View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

manage funds of half a billion dollars or more now face the challenge of creating processes that are appropriate for a large team rather than individual venture capitalists, as... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

companies encouraging and funding ESG innovation. Dow Chemical has enormous energy consumption in their operations, but they've managed to save more than $10 billion through efficiency programs and are moving the world toward the adoption... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

securing endorsements from party officials and funds from big money donors. On the other side, Trump, already a media personality thanks to “The Apprentice,” has so far secured $4 billion worth of free media... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like pension funds and endowments. Even individual investors... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

with the task of fashioning an appropriate fiscal response. Bold recovery plans would seem to be in order, but how that response is financed holds great import for Japan's economic future. With government deficits equaling 10% View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

in hospitals. One condition of funding was that she also create a tool to improve the safety climate and encourage senior managers to become more engaged in hospital safety initiatives. “It was not that... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

number of missions that could be funded within a given budget, while reducing the negative impact of a failure. In the case of the Mars program,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

this policy be designed not just to meet Utilitarian goals but also to align with the principle of Equal Sacrifice. The principle of Equal Sacrifice declares that the goal of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

current account trade deficit for the US followed, with the resulting funds invested by the Chinese government in US Treasury bonds instead of going into increased consumption by Chinese consumers. This... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

Organizations, explores the internal complexities of people in control. Plus: Book excerpt. 16. Rethinking Retirement Planning Many of us are relying on defined contribution plans to help View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

environment. While incumbents must learn and adapt to the new communications medium if they are to profit from it, pure-plays face the daunting task and expense of quickly building a new brand from ground zero to a profit-generating level... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

a reasonable request and deliver it with a smile, hopefully you can keep the other person in the room and see what happens next." Mohan—former managing director and now senior advisor of $15 billion VC and private equity firm Summit... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

proliferation of accelerators, and continuation of VC investments have made it increasingly possible to start a business, and in some sectors entrepreneurs were able to attract View Details