Financial Capital Needed - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

and a vulnerable position in the labor market. External focus makes them more "portable" in terms of making a positive move, but can cause problems if they want to progress within their own organization, because you need a solid... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

She wasn’t just seeking potential companies, but promising visions and missions. “I was thinking of human capital in terms of people, talent and culture,” Sarah explains. “I needed to find organizations that... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS

1969 as an oil analyst. He was named director of research in 1971 and became head of the firm's investment banking division in 1979. Appointed chairman of DLJ 's capital markets group in 1984, Chalsty became president and CEO in 1986 and... View Details

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

investing/finance and key global challenges, guided for example by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including climate, gender equality, and poverty reduction. Emphasis will be placed on the analytical tools needed to understand the... View Details

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

industry," he explains, "you have to make a bet on the future: Do you have a viable business strategy, and if so, is it one of growth, of maintenance, or of decline? Given your beliefs about the future, you then need to design a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

and questions in economics. In 8th grade, I needed to learn more English and she pulled from her shelf an English book—it happened to be Greg Mankiw’s Principles of Economics. I read the book sentence by sentence for two months, looking... View Details

26 Nov 2019
News

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

Source: Mills Source: Mills Drawing on her experience leading the US Small Business Administration as a member of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, Senior Fellow Karen Gordon Mills explores the ways technology is changing financial... View Details

Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business

01 Feb 1997
News

Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and... View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

period, the corporate venture capitalists received 15 percent of the profits they generated, as well as a bonus based on less-tangible benefits to the corporation, which could run as high as another 5 percent of the fund's capital gains.... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

the sidelines to see how they would run towards the goal. Another way I saw Underscore support entrepreneurs, is by providing access to a group of mentors who can provide connections, advice, and expertise called the Core Partners. An entrepreneur might View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Real Property - Course Catalog

sale—there are opportunities to create value and build wealth. Educational Objectives The course prepares students to: Analyze different asset classes and phases of the property cycle Evaluate uncertainty across people, projects, capital... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks

to be in property, and I’m going to do well enough to give you guys a job.’ My parents had no clue about what I was doing, and I really didn’t, either. I just knew that the work involved financial services, which felt aspirational. All... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; diversity; leadership; real estate; Real Estate

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

of it. Among many other things, it must produce consistent financial results against a difficult economic and sector outlook so that its market capitalization can grow to ensure that taxpayers will... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham

we're repositioning ourselves for the next wave of growth by addressing a new set of concerns our viewers have about the financial world." Capital Report, a post-September 11 addition, is one example;... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2014
News

Book Review: The Old West

more than 10 percent, and India's more than 6. It won't be long, says Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993), cofounder and chief executive of Stanhope Capital, one of the largest independent investment firms in Europe, before the West falls to the East in the economic power... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

25 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal

48 percent net internal rate of return (IRR) for investors over the course of the firm's first four funds. Given that success, investors are ready to substantially increase their capital commitments to the firm's next fund. ABRY's fourth... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Ventures Quantified Ventures supports the progress of the social enterprise community through impact investing. They work with nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, and governments who demonstrate capacity for transformative social good, helping them to tap into the... View Details

11 May 2016
News

World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

and the European Central Bank as lenders who have already adopted negative rates. Nobuyuki Hirano, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., echoes Oteh’s warning in the article, arguing that the policy will “gradually undermine... View Details

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

needs to succeed—can also be a weakness when it comes to benefiting financially from their hard work. The fact that founders are so attached to their ventures is wonderful, but can also be used against the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Financial Services

August 2016 (Revised August 2017)
Case

AnswerDash (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Jeffrey D. Shulman

It is 2014 and AnswerDash, a startup backed by venture capital, has not seen the widespread adoption of their online self-service customer support solution that they were expecting based on early success in helping clients save and generate substantial amounts of... View Details