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28 Sep 2017
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Why Venture Capitalists Aren’t Funding The Businesses We Need

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

or an equity mutual fund that holds low-dividend stocks and passes through little in the way of realized capital gains. A high-tax asset might be a standard corporate bond, since the interest payments on a bond held in a taxable account... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

02 Aug 2021
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Why Bond Funds May Be Riskier than They Seem

September 6, 2011
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Judging Success in Funding Medical Research

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Success; Research; Health; Money

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2010
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Pension Fund Design in Developing Economies

By: Luis M. Viceira

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March 2008
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The Pitcairn Family Heritage® Fund (CW)

Keywords: Investment

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December 2007 (Revised April 2009)
Teaching Note

Adams Capital Management: Fund IV (TN)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Keywords: Financial Management; Investment

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01 Sep 2013
News

Connell Family Gift Funds Curriculum Innovation

Terry and Margot Connell In memory of William F. Connell (MBA 1963), his widow, Margot, and the Connell family have donated $10 million to HBS to establish the Margot and William F. Connell Family MBA Innovation Fund. Made on the occasion of Connell's 50th Reunion last... View Details

Keywords: William F. Connell (MBA 1963); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

August 2017 (Revised September 2023)
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Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI

By: Josh Lerner and Ted Berk

Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice among three different... View Details

Keywords: Equity Method; Leveraged Buyout; Management Buyout; Capital; Design; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Leveraged Buyouts; Management; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Banking Industry; Massachusetts

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Career Support & Exploration Funds | MBA

Career Support & Exploration Funds Attending Harvard Business School is a profound and life-changing experience. So it’s no surprise that so many students change career paths after completing their MBA. The School has a strong commitment... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs

about making money and investing, but it's also about entrepreneurship. Having half of our society somewhat inhibited in their access to capital is a bad thing." Higgins cochaired the forum with HBS professor Myra M. Hart. With venture View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

30 Apr 2014
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Cities, states to lose big if highway fund disappears

01 Mar 2016
News

The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation

A Resource for the Next Big Idea, and More The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation is instrumental in bringing innovative projects to life at the School. Recent successful HBS initiatives that are advancing management... View Details

05 Jan 2011
Op-Ed

Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress

In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again government funding of human embryonic stem-cell research, it is time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical

01 Mar 2013
News

FAQ: How is research funded at HBS?

www.hbs.edu/faculty. All research at HBS is funded internally, without the constraints of traditional external grant funding, thanks to alumni support and income from Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing. This unique View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2011
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LME Fund Makes HBS Dreams a Reality

’60), Charley Ellis (MBA ’63), and John McArthur (MBA ’59, DBA ’63). The three men’s LeBaron-McArthur-Ellis (LME) Fellowship Fund has supported more than 530 HBS students since its founding in 1983, when Ellis conceived of the idea and,... View Details

2001
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Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn

U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details

Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry

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August 2021
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Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (B): Kevin Hart and Clubhouse

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams

In May 2020, Andreessen Horowitz secures an agreement with Clubhouse, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round. One of the factors that insiders saw as pivotal in the race to be Clubhouse’s VC firm of choice was Andreessen... View Details