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04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Summing Up The clear consensus of those responding to this month's column is that managerial capitalism, as John Bogle terms it, has peaked. But what will follow it is less clear. Many doubt that the form of owners' View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Dec 2010
News

Capitalism Reconstructed

26 Apr 2021
Video

Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency

27 Jun 2023
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Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Venture Capital to Scale

01 Oct 2000
News

HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women

On November 3, HBS will host the first venture capital forum ever held for women entrepreneurs in the New England area. Titled "Springboard 2000: New England" and sponsored by the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) and the National... View Details

Keywords: Finance

6 PM – 7 PM EST, 04 Mar 2021
Virtual Programming

Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency

The Harvard Business School Business & Environment Initiative and Food, Agriculture, & Water Club invite you to join us for Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency. This discussion will aim to highlight the connection between climate change and... View Details

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Chapter

Firms and Global Capitalism

By: Geoffrey Jones

This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work that traces the history of capitalism from its origins to the present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in... View Details

Keywords: Political Economy; American History; Economic History; Business History; Labor History; Slavery; Numeracy And Quantification; Science And Technology Studies; History Of The Book; International Investment; International Business; International Marketing; Globalization; History

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March 2015
Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White

BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy

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02 Jul 2024
Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

global executive and coaching experience—explains how people can use these five Cs to find their own “treasure,” that personal or professional achievement that spells success in their own eyes and have greater impact in the world. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Feb 2020
News

The Capital That Ate Wellness Is Going to Eat Your Mushrooms

June 2020
Article

Overcoming Barriers to Early Disease Intervention

By: H. Hugo Caicedo, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Julio C. Caicedo, Alex Pentland and Gary P. Pisano

It is widely acknowledged that earlier intervention in many disease processes leads to better patient outcomes and lower treatment costs. To date, most efforts at early disease intervention have focused on "primary prevention" which focuses on preventing diseases in... View Details

Keywords: Secondary Prevention; Barriers To Response; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment

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September 2008 (Revised September 2010)
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Ithmar Capital

By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

The founders of Ithmar Capital, a mid-market private equity fund targeting businesses in and addressing the Gulf Co-operation Council countries, are about to raise their third fund, targeting $1 billion. The firm's current strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry

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April 1999 (Revised November 1999)
Case

Columbia Capital Corporation: Summer 1998

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Justin D. Wasik

In August 1998, the partners of Columbia Capital in Arlington, Va. made a decision about whether or not to raise an outside fund for venture capital investing. Columbia had begun in 1988 as a boutique investment bank focused on the telecommunications industry, but had... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Partners and Partnerships; Investment Funds; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States

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February 2002
Article

Market Timing and Capital Structure

By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler

It is well known that firms tend to raise equity when their market values are high relative to book and past market values. We document that the resulting effects on capital structure are very persistent. As a consequence, current capital structure is strongly related... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Equity; Capital Structure; Theory; Market Timing; Financial Markets

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01 Dec 2004
News

Capitalizing Poetry

Barr Photo courtesy Poetry Foundation In 2002, pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly made a gift in excess of $100 million to the Modern Poetry Association (now the renamed Poetry Foundation). Tapped in February View Details

Keywords: poetry; Arts, Entertainment; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

January 1994 (Revised November 1997)
Case

Aberlyn Capital Management: July 1993

By: Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano

Aberlyn Capital Management, a venture leasing firm specializing in providing capital to biotechnology firms, proposes to introduce a new product. Aberlyn will base a lease on an intangible product: the patent of a biotechnology firm. This poses a series of short and... View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Valuation; Product Launch; Problems and Challenges; Patents; Financial Instruments; Financial Services Industry; Biotechnology Industry

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