Capital Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2000
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New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference

paper as you can get." Participants ready to launch new ventures added skills to their entrepreneurial tool kits in an interactive seminar presented by HBS professor Myra M. Hart, while others heard about international investment... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground

personal than honorific. This might be his most important skill: Ticket sales, LPO board president Long estimates, make up something like 25 to 30 percent of the budget, so securing philanthropic investment is imperative. On this front,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes

runs his own venture capital firm, Bear Ventures LLC. “With his multiple investments in various early- and mid-stage companies, his point of view is invaluable to me,” she notes. But even more importantly,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

information you have. Ultimately, this process leads you to a zone for judgment; it's a process I have used throughout my career." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Director, The Council for Excellence in Government Director, Capital Partners for... View Details

19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

organized by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative and the HBS Club of Washington, DC. The expert panel featured voices from the energy, environmental, and governmental sectors; attendees from fields as diverse as education, health care, and View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

country back to prosperity. Within his first 100 days, Mitsotakis announced to investors the world over that Greece is open for business. And it’s happening, both in the buzz at the Grande Bretagne and on the world stage. Arhodidis, for one, has a new job. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash

partnership is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and Visa, and hosted by the United Nations View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

automakers tried to avoid investing in radials. This country was not like Europe where they have "little doodlebugs scooting around on cobblestones," they said. According to a top Ford executive at the time, "This is a big country with... View Details

13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground

through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal relationships is something we... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

boy, Bill Donaldson went on to cofound the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. After fourteen years there, he began to take on a series of other leadership challenges in business, government, and academia. Most... View Details

09 Apr 2019
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Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

included a commitment to put 90 percent of donations toward research that will accelerate discoveries. “We built an organization we would want to invest in ourselves. We cover overhead so donors aren’t giving money to the nonprofit; they... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

and my fellow Indian community member’s friends, families, mentors, partners are struggling to stay alive, and this is the time to stand up for them just like they supported and invested in us.” MAY 12 After watching the COVID-19 crisis... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

invest large sums of money and energy, and a phenomenon is born! Then, after a year of unsustainable stratospheric growth in stock prices, we wake up to find that we have really created a lot of dot-nothings. “However, in Japan, China,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

demonstrates "the depth of the School's commitment to building intellectual capital in the region," says Yeh. The former investment banker and longtime Hong Kong resident has already welcomed several faculty... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Oct 2001
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A Janus-Faced Reflection

way of mirroring what's going on among graduates. It seems unlikely that we will just walk away from the new economy, which many in the class helped create. As Dave Frost wrote in a 1998 class note, "Have you noticed how many of us are involved in corporate... View Details

Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap

who is founder and managing partner at Aragon Global Management (AGM), a Chicago-based hedge fund that focuses on global equities. “There is a much higher return on investment in early childhood. It’s more expensive to intervene later and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

connectors. China, which outstrips both Europe and the United States in terms of EV adoption, wants to put 3 to 5 million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020. China’s central government has also opened the state-run power sector to private View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

percent of Hong Kong's exports involve China either as a source or market, and 60 percent of the total investment in China is channeled from the territory. In addition, he said, Hong Kong is an outward-looking economy that serves a wider... View Details