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Bei Guo
As an analyst at Citigroup in Japan, Bei Guo gained firsthand experience on the impact of equity capital markets on Asian business. "There are many excellent companies in Japan," Bei says,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
entrepreneurial and family-held businesses. For his part, Liles became an expert on venture capital and the entrepreneur. In the 1970s and 1980s, as HBS intensified its research and curriculum development in the area of entrepreneurship,... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
“It’s one of the many different actions in a larger menu of potential solutions, that would include investor engagement with corporate management and more powerful political interventions such as regulation and taxation,” Serafeim says. As green bonds continue to View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
there are tax efficiencies to be gained by holding shares for at least one year (there is not). Rather, this is just a confusion between how ordinary income and capital gains... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
especially on high-income young workers and (2) lowers average taxes on all young workers relative to older workers when private saving and borrowing are restricted. Finally, I calculate and characterize the welfare gains from age... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
dilemmas. The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper III (MBA '54) (Palgrave Macmillan) Draper looks at how the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship works.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
we start by asking, ‘What will it take to eliminate disease?,’ we will gain a better understanding of why the disease occurs and what bits of biology need to be fixed—which allows us to create better medicines and, over time, get to a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
process itself can actually shape the realized strategy of the firm. This can include internal reporting structures and incentive systems, but it can also reflect external factors such as capital markets and customers. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
IFPI’s Global Music Report. Apple Music and Spotify, services that were once thought to be the industry’s coup de grace, have actually transformed cash flows. Streaming has also created important data sets. As listeners gain wider access... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits China’s commercial revolution gained further momentum in 1860 when the new, large-scale upcountry purchase of tea and silk became fully developed. — Yen-P’ing Hao, The Commercial Revolution in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
studies conducted by doctoral student Bhavya Mohan working with HBS faculty found that lower CEO-to-employee pay ratios—say, 60 to 1—improve consumer perceptions. A firm with a 1,000-to-1 ratio would have to offer a 50 percent discount on its product to View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
customers and business partners). Q: Could you elaborate more on this point that firms might choose to follow the rules when they cross-list on a U.S. exchange not because they're concerned about repercussions, but because of the business reputational assets they View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
Administration Marco Iansiti and Charles Edwin Wilson Professor of Business Administration and Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow Karim R. Lakhani). Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire—this recent book offers insights into the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
myself in a difficult situation,” says Powers. Such internships enable MBA students to gain valuable work experience, explore career options, and apply their classroom learnings. As the economic consequences of the pandemic took hold,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
philanthropic efforts but more often helping communities through core business practices, such as gaining flexibility to hire and fire from the union by raising wages and increasing training or helping laid-off employees start small... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
chose to host conference calls in English, placing themselves on shaky linguistic ground. The recent working paper Capital Market Consequences of Non-Plain English in Conference Calls of Foreign Firms appears to be one of the first... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman