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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
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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

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017

distribution from the endowment). These latter two categories are sensitive to trends in the economy and the capital markets—trends which remained favorable overall for a seventh consecutive year in fiscal 2017. As a result, the School’s... View Details

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Jeff Bussgang

Even a quick glance at Jeff Bussgang’s resume reveals a deep commitment to entrepreneurial innovation. After playing a leading role at Open Market, an Internet commerce software firm that grew to $100 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 1996, Jeff cofounded... View Details

January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
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Note on Yield Conventions

By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee

Describes the principal conventions used to report yields on debt instruments. View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Capital Markets; Asset Management; Reports; Conferences; Governing and Advisory Boards

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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

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

Review] Global Business over Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Taipei to help me with FIELD Global Immersion? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry... View Details

07 Dec 2009
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Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

market, then investors, employees, intermediaries such as law firms and data providers, and the wider capital markets are likely to be knowledgeable about the venturing process and the strategies, financing,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

22 Sep 2020
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Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by entrepreneurs who are less... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

market reaction to attempts to enforce sovereign debt contracts via U.S. "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America in the pre-World War II period and by legal action in the 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that dollar diplomacy created... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Princeton University Press, forthcoming Abstract In response to the financial crisis, governments are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2018
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Financing Anghami's Growth

By: Ramana Nanda and Eren Kuzucu

In December 2012, less than two years into the founding of their music-streaming platform Anghami, cofounders Elie Habib and Eddy Maroun found themselves evaluating an unorthodox term sheet. Habib and Maroun needed to make a decision vis-à-vis the proposal put forth by... View Details

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06 Jan 2010
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Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

Summing Up Do we even need a stringent climate change agreement? Judging from this month's comments, a question can be raised about the necessity of a climate change agreement, stringent or not, as a catalyst to foster innovation and the venture View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

cool and only go-to source, then make the leap to the next level after market share growth rate has peaked. You can prepare for the shift but don’t dilute your momentum yet. You will be able to raise more View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

celebrities including Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and Oprah Winfrey, was drawn to Bono's commitment to conscious capitalism and to the question of what made Bono, well, Bono. "It so clicked for me," she says. "I hadn't listened to U2 in 10... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

iconic landscape photographer Ansel Adams. The South Sea Bubble, 1720 Explore one of the most extensive collections in the world relating to the first international stock market crash. An exhibition featuring selections from the... View Details

05 May 2003
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What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

far. The American capital markets are a key element of the economic system, and "when they function well, they are a wonder of the world," he said. But the American View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

29 Jan 2013
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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

10 Mar 2014
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Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

place," Srinivasan says. "That is a value judgment, to be sure. But it may not be a bad thing if certain companies are restricted in their access to financing, simply because loss of trust in public capital View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

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