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  • Research Summary

Strategic Human Capital

My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details

  • 22 Jan 2020
  • News

Making Stakeholder Capitalism a Reality

    Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Public Affairs, April 2020

    It’s the most successful economic system to have ever existed, but capitalism is in danger of destroying itself—and our world. Reimagining Capitalism gets to the heart of what’s wrong with modern capitalism and lays out a pragmatic roadmap... View Details
    • 29 Jul 2010
    • News

    Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award

    • Research Summary

    Crises and Capital Requirements in Banking

    previously entitled: The Role of Capital Adequacy Requirements in Sound Banking Systems

    Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.

    We analyse a... View Details

    • October 1997 (Revised June 2000)
    • Exercise

    Capital Budgeting: Discounted Cash Flow Analysis

    By: Thomas R. Piper
    This exercise comprises seven problems that collectively allow students to work through each type of cash flow that is encountered in capital budgeting. The instructor can also address such issues as product cannibalization and real options. View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cash Flow
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    • 18 Apr 2011
    • News

    Capitalism Meets Conservation

    millions in investment capital and has purchased more than 60,000 acres in Chile’s Patagonia region, reported the Martha’s Vineyard Times (December 22, 2010). Adams’ approach recognizes that conserved land has many values—for recreation,... View Details
    Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • Research Summary

    The Future of Market Capitalism

    By: Joseph L. Bower
    In 2009 we are aware of the fragile state of our market system.  But a careful examination of the long term prospects for the global economy reveal other problems that may destabilize the system that has created so much wealth in the period since the second world... View Details
    • 22 Feb 2018
    • Book

    The New History of American Capitalism

    economy as a whole, connections that were overlooked by more locally focused histories. Capitalism has not observed boundaries, and now neither do those studying it. Scholars currently working on American... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • 30 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

    If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 05 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

    Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
    • 2021
    • Article

    Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing

    By: William Janeway, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital booms and startup financing, focusing on three broad areas: First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the venture capital asset class, particularly in recent years—which are related... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Policy
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    • 16 Nov 2020
    • News

    Does Capitalism Need To Be Reimagined?

    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    Capturing Human Capital

    corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do this by allocating scarce View Details
    • 15 Nov 2019
    • News

    What Deval Patrick Did At Bain Capital

    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History: A Roundtable Discussion

    By: Sabine Pitteloud, Grace Ballor, Patricia Clavin, Nicolás M. Perrone, Neil Rollings and Quinn Slobodian
    This working paper brings together a diverse group of scholars to discuss the historiography of capitalism, business history and global governance and lay the foundations for further research in this area. Grace Ballor and Sabine Pitteloud open the discussion with a... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Business History; Multinational Corporation; Business And Government Relations; Business And Society; Business And The Environment; International Relations; Regulation; Business Interest Association; Lobbying; Private Governance; State-business Relations; Political Risk; Neo-Liberalism; Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Government and Politics
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    • Program

    Private Equity and Venture Capital

    venture capital fields, our foundational investment program, Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital, may be more appropriate. The programs are not intended to be taken consecutively and are designed to meet the needs of two... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Finance
    • January 2007 (Revised July 2008)
    • Case

    Capital Field: A Room with a View

    By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Joshua Wyatt
    Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a company formed by U.S.-educated Polish natives involved in real... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Emerging Markets; State Ownership; Privatization; Property; Real Estate Industry; Poland
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    • 20 Aug 2008
    • Op-Ed

    The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

    capitalism is "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing View Details
    Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
    • 01 Sep 2020
    • News

    Road Work

    the Salas brothers are working to help finance entrepreneurs very much like their mother. Founded in 2014 and with offices in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Camino got its start while Kenny and Sean were still students at HBS. In addition... View Details
    Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance