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- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
which there are millions of unsophisticated investors who don't have the time or experience to evaluate these businesses. Would you expect their returns to be higher or lower than the VCs who have spent... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary individuals. Yet evidence is mounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
following : be actively pursuing a job or entrepreneurship in the life sciences post-graduation; are already actively working on a life sciences company idea or startup; joining a life sciences company and/or are already working part-time during the school year; or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
foreign direct investment. Today, with more than nine thousand listed companies and a market capitalization of $125 billion, India has efficient back-office and settlement systems, and the ability to attract international capital. With greater transparency and with... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
innovations (for whom the price of failure tolerance is too high) can only be started by investors who are not failure tolerant. Since policies to stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
accommodating but also, looking back, didn’t lower its expectations for me. Generally, my experience has led me to conclude there is no formulaic approach that will work for all. Rather, I hope more women will speak up, even if they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
business. “I knew it was a great fit for me,” he says. During the fifteen years he has worked at Merrill, O’Neal has proved himself again and again, moving from various positions in different divisions of the firm — financial services, global capital markets, View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
annual list of the “10 Surprises” that investors should be thinking about in the year ahead. Taylor Becker (MBA 2025) met Wien as a first-year analyst at Blackstone, the only one of the 100 or so in his cohort to take Wien up on his offer... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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When Less Money Means More Innovation | Working Knowledge
insights for founders and early-stage investors about how much funding tech startups need to produce desired results, and when it’s best to bestow them with it. Based on financial and technology data from thousands of early-stage tech... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
was invested in U.S. capital markets; today it is 33 percent,” said Paulson. “Foreign investors are finding our markets less attractive,” he warned, and later noted that there is a danger that the United States “may suffocate” from... View Details
- Profile
Bruce Gago
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to HBS with a background exclusively in real estate finance, and I knew I needed to gain a broad set of managerial and entrepreneurial skills in order to become more successful later in my career. How has your... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
law of what was done commonly by VCs at the time,” says Fenwick-Smith, who had private equity know-how but had never been involved in creating venture funds. That lack of direct experience gave him the freedom to create a fund... View Details
- Career Coach
Cindy Horowitz
Cindy (HBS ’81) brings 20 years of broad management experience to coaching students interested in general management, finance, operations and other corporate roles. She helps students understand the various roles open to them and the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
Take30 Impact Series: Life Post-HBS with Black & Latino Alumni
Take 30 minutes out of your day to learn about how one alum is making an impact in their own way after HBS. We’ll touch on their experience as a student, and then “zoom” in on their career path and personal journey since graduating. On... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
experience in the category, especially considering new investors often take board seats. “When large amounts of capital come into play, the pressure on founders can be quite intense and it’s important to... View Details
Jodi Gernon
I leverage my 30+ years of experience launching and scaling startups to help startup founders and CEOs succeed. This includes helping early stage founders think about how complete customer discovery, build an MVP and develop their View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
"Shark Tank Air Date 11/15," read the subject line. "I thought, 'This can't be real,'" says Donna. She replied to confirm the message, assuming someone on the other end had made a mistake. After all, not everyone who makes it in front of America's most public View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
narrowly,” says David Clough, assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, and coauthor of the paper. “There is a tendency to go only to close friends and family members.” Beyond that, entrepreneurs tend to network with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
wanted to. Still, it wasn’t until investors came calling that Amed realized that London-based BoF could be a business. In 2013, he took on backers that included industry powerhouses LVMH and Index Ventures, threw in some of his own money,... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
Source: Raw Pixel Stockbrokers are taking advantage of their privileged position to increase profits for favored investors and hedge funds, all at the expense of their other customers, new research suggests. A team of economists has found... View Details