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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
capabilities. Together, they wrote a business plan to do four independent features and set up a venture capital fund — Front Street Films — to raise the money to finance those productions. “It was the... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products-the movies, television shows, songs, and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market-is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, I reveal why entertainment executives often spend... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
way to look at hedge funds is as the pure active side of the money management industry. Their growth would then be explained as the other side of the growth in indexing: All part of the same process of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
difficult one for direct investors. Tilted Playing Field Why is it so difficult to make money as a direct investor in the United States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
thrown around range from the federal government borrowing and investing that money directly to instead providing incentives such as tax credits to encourage private industry to participate. The method and the final amount will be debated.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Strength In Numbers: Andrew Rosenthal, Jess Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, a student-led group with the goal of increasing the number of successful new businesses launched from HBS. Related Links The Best-Laid... View Details
Keywords: Contests
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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog
protagonists have participated in over half the class discussions. The first two modules of the course address key issues faced by entrepreneurs: how much money should be raised at each stage; when should it be raised; what is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
year. Despite the wealth of people like Wu Yajun and Yin Mingshan, the average Chinese lives on less than $2,000. Why would the latter want, in effect, to lend money to the former, who is twenty-two times richer? The answer is that, until... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
or for lesser trained medical professionals to administer them. It also makes the vaccines more compact and easier to ship. What started as a four-person operation in 2011 has bloomed into an enterprise that employs 19 people and has raised $15 million. Schrader says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
(MBA ’84), president and CEO of AEW Capital Management, a Boston investment advisory firm with $30 billion under management. “Certainly my clients — pension funds and endowments — aren’t that optimistic about the stock and bond markets,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
mandate that private sector employers auto-enroll their employees in a pension plan. In the span of six years, the number of people with pensions in the UK jumped by 10 million. But just opening the accounts isn’t enough to ensure they will View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
It’s easy to doubt that there is a place in tech and entrepreneurship for women until you see the varied and successful paths other women have taken: “Oh wow, this woman started her business at 22. This woman did it at 28. She was raising View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results. View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
short as possible. The TARP money and the flexible terms on which it was legislated were critical to the rapid funding of administration decisions. The uniqueness of TARP, however, probably ensures that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on excess cash holdings would help ensure that the disgorged cash would be used productively in the United States. Coupling... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Cities and states are feeling the financial pain of this recession more quickly than in past downturns after pandemic-induced lockdowns swiftly decimated sales tax revenue that helps fund their operations. In fact, new research finds that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
California legislature for more funding for public schools, which resulted in a $2 billion increase, and she helps raise money for the Manhattan Beach Education Foundation, a nonprofit educational... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets. Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
what you have done?" Williams asked. "No," admitted Tracy. "I'm going to change that," he said. In its first few years, the fund concentrated on raising money to support research, even hiring a research... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this positive business impact is likely caused by... View Details