Capital Gain - Publications - Faculty & Research

John R. Simplot

Investing in businesses that ranged from cattle to potatoes to fertilizer, Simplot used his talent at achieving efficiency and at spotting a growing market to garner enormous profits. Simplot capitalized on the Army’s World War II demands... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

employee, advisor or investor. However, the course is also appropriate for students interested in gaining a broader view of the financing landscape for young firms, going beyond the basics of venture capital... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Private capital, public good

US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

founder, early employee, advisor or investor. However, the course is also appropriate for students interested in gaining a broader view of the financing landscape for young firms, going beyond the basics of venture View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

business or investing in emerging markets. New half-courses The Art of Marketing Science is intended for students interested in gaining a deeper understanding of consumer behavior and, most importantly, View Details

Keywords: curriculum

Career Coach

Kareem Stanley

Kareem enjoys helping students with making career transitions from the following industries: oil/gas/energy, industrials, construction/project management. Having been an oil & gas engineer before coming back to complete JD/MBA, Kareem has View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Faculty Books

Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?

My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

unusually high U.S. productivity gains of the past six years accrued to managers, employees and customers rather than investors. The analysis concludes that more than 97 percent of the gains from increased... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Career Coach

Adam Bronfin

Adam spent five years in real estate private equity prior to HBS. In his previous role, he gained experience across many different verticals within the industry, including development / construction, private equity, structured finance /... View Details

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Sponsors | New Venture Competition

Sponsors The New Venture Competition thanks its sponsors for their tremendous support which enables participants to access expert resources, test their ideas, and gain real-world feedback throughout the process. Amazon Web Services All... View Details

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

influence over the corporate tax strategy. They then reconstructed insider holdings portfolios and built-in capital gains in order to get a precise estimate of their incentives. There were three measures for... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

Norton W. Simon

Capitalizing on his talents at restructuring, Simon gained control of Hunt Foods by force, accumulating shares in the company with proceeds earned from selling his previous enterprise, Val Vita Foods, to... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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Isabella Mandis | MBA

Being selected as Harvard’s first undergraduate Investment Partner at The MBA Fund has allowed me to gain valuable experience in venture capital. My summer experiences as a Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow and intern at Retro, a... View Details

21 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

to become better employers. “Throughout my career, I have explored how private capital and public resources can be leveraged to ensure people living in historically marginalized communities have the opportunity for economic mobility,”... View Details

Robert L. Johnson

Johnson created the first and only cable television station with programming for and about black Americans. Though he struggled to gain a subscriber base in the early eighties, Johnson persevered and built a viable enterprise. When he... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Career Coach

Imam Akinlade

Imam wants to help students think critically about their career paths and what really maters most to them, Having gained significant experience in consulting, impact investing and clean energy before HBS; and exploring several career... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Hot Tip

and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market finishing number one in the world... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Mar 2012
Article

A Jobs Compact for America's Future

over investment in workers; federal policy makers fail to address high, persistent unemployment and underemployment; most people’s wages have stagnated for three decades, despite gains in productivity; and unions have become convenient... View Details

17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

2017), Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015), Anthony Tucker (MBA 2017), and Anish Pathipati (MBA 2016) How did you find out you had been named to the 2019 "30 Under 30?" Akash Pradhan, investor, TPG Capital and TPG Growth: “I woke up to text messages... View Details

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