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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
economies, that financial data often doesn’t exist. Without a way to evaluate credit applicants, lenders are not inclined to make the type of small-business loans—for instance, just $5,000 for working capital or $20,000 for machinery—that... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
professionals to eliminate IT waste and reduce capital expenses. The additional material covers IT governance and strategy, outsourcing, offshoring, data-center management, IT problem management, disaster recovery, systems security, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
capital markets and how entrepreneurial companies can access startup capital and growth financing; Professor Malcolm S. Salter will discuss the "modern industrial revolution"... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
to the global automobile industry. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms are emerging as international players. There are also opportunities in infrastructure investment, such as telecom, ports, roads, and airports. Please comment on India’s View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
due to my relationship with Austin. The hardest part is feeling like I am being impactful enough given I work long hours in my current job [director of marketing analytics at Inspire Brands] and am not able... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
has included often-overlapping leadership roles in business, teaching, public service, and the law, Pozen has also written six books and maintained rewarding relationships with his wife and their two children. In a widely read Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
dilemmas. The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper III (MBA '54) (Palgrave Macmillan) Draper looks at how the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship works.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“If I had been leaving Harvard in 2010, this would be the area I would want to be going into.” — Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), a founder of the European venture capital industry, referring to his latest venture, Social Finance, a social... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for private equity. There is not enough of a track record of cash... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
government is. We need that $2 trillion stimulus package, but we also need, and do not have, a viable safety net. A strong democratically elected, transparent, and responsive government is vital to free-market capitalism because it not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
relationships with the community. These investments can be modest. Just providing safe drinking water can lead to greater productivity and more profit, one of many instances where philanthropy makes good business sense. I get excited by... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
established markets - is sounding a wake-up call for corporate strategists. How did you first become interested in these disruptive technologies? It was the sudden demise of Digital Equipment Corporation that first drew my attention. How... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes believes, is an example of how GM... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey. Together with his wife and children, Feder sets off for an exotic island on a self-prescribed... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
market more than superficially. There’s a tension between the way product designers want people to behave and the way that people actually behave. Users will usually take the shortcut to whatever solution they want. The best entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
The Venture Capital Cycle by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (MIT Press) U.S. venture capital firms have grown dramatically over the last two decades, nurturing a host of start-ups -- including Apple... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Business Environment in the 21st century
we ought to aspire to make a very significant contribution. We’ve had a major impact in the past. We can do it again.” Related Links Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble? View Details
- 22 Aug 2020
- News
Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business
“We’ve taken so many good things from them,” Beck tells the podcast. “They have technology infrastructure that we don’t have. They have incredible financial infrastructure. We’ve piggybacked onto some of their relationships with digital... View Details