Access To Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

potential move with the other members of his or her group to assess their level of interest and prepare them for the change. The second stage involves the integration of the team leader with the new company's top leadership. This part of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

such as capital or access to talent inside the group. Equally important, I believe, is reputation, knowing that it is Koç or Akfen. Q: Koç and Akfen are both family owned. Is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

chief scientific officer, in particular — aren't really the deciding factors for investment bankers," Higgins explains. "It's these executives' professional ties and company connections, their access View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

capital in Latin America. Chu still runs Pegasus but also joined HBS in 2003. His courses include "Effective Leadership of Social Enterprise" and "New Opportunities in Emerging Markets," the latter about managing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

receive the new share for several months, at which point he can sell it. This system is the result of ownership being tracked on paper rather than electronically—it takes time to print out new share certificates. Because investors do not... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

corporate governance. “When you think of the factors that have made capitalism such a successful model for economic growth, the separation between management and ownership, with the ability to disperse... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

understand the linkage between internal operations and external markets including capital markets, customer markets, and supplier markets. To communicate effectively with these markets, managers must know... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

allocated in competitive markets) is far superior to a centrally planned economy where the means of production are controlled by the political process. And the superiority does not come only in terms of economic growth, but also... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

levels of poverty. One common challenge is that farmers only have access to one channel, often an auction, in which to sell their crops. Recently, e-intermediaries have emerged... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

private capital sources," says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big risks and hoped for big rewards. The 1980s brought additional players View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

access to HBS cases. Q: How do you foresee the JRO contributing to the study and practice of management in the region? A: In the future I would like View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

households had at least $25,000 in both a taxable and a tax-deferred account. And while about two-thirds of those households held tax-efficient portfolios, most of the remaining third could reduce their taxes by relocating heavily taxed fixed income assets View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

entrepreneurs could not access sufficient local financing, as much of the domestic capital went to state-owned enterprises. Labor-intensive FDI brought forth both resources and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

they will be able to withdraw their funds at a later date—and at what exchange rate. This happened in Brazil in the early 1990s and in Argentina in the early part of this century, when similar desperate policies were enacted. The... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

firms also invested rapidly to build radial tire production capacity once the OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] switched to the new technology. In the case of investment in radial manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

Carroll pointed out "Corporate brain cells, like their biological counterparts, must be used to be valuable." A part of this usage involves getting employees to share knowledge they possess with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

The business sector of modern Turkey has been dominated by closely held family business groups, which rarely allow access to their corporate archives, or else by a myriad of small businesses, which rarely... View Details