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15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice between three different fee structures: first, a "conventional" fee structure of a 1.5% management fee with 20% carried View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity

credit were not profit-making enterprises but charities. In fifteenth-century Italy, outraged by the high rates charged by moneylenders, the papal governor of Perugia established the first monte pietatis, a public pawnshop that charged... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources

year, gives alumni exclusive access to hundreds of positions, and it is searchable by industry, region, salary, and more. This year the Job Bank will add a much wider range of opportunities specifically for more senior executives, second-career seekers, and those View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

interest deduction is widely disliked by tax analysts, but it has survived as a policy. Does this suggest that the policy process is broken or that tax analysts are missing something? My intuition often leans toward the latter, and not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

"ensured that the increase in [shipping] rates was very limited." “When everyone is ordering ships is the time you should be selling.” The industry's largest boom, however, began early in 2003, driven by demand for iron ore to fuel... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

more from shopping malls, they have shown little interest in building affordable apartments. Government policies have favored home ownership, and today's interest rates are... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

plus side of the ledger, tariff rates declined, leading to more competition and forcing Greek companies to compete internationally. Reducing bureaucracy also helped: time to export decreased from 20 to 16 days, according to the World... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

24 Jul 2018
Blog Post

The Global Classroom: From Boston to Jakarta

to a global partner. So what did my FGI look like? I went to Jakarta, Indonesia, was partnered with a great group of people, and assigned to an interesting problem for a non-profit called the Tanoto Foundation. We were given the task to... View Details

05 Aug 2015
News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

Very consumer focused,” says Motte-Munoz. “Say you need a driver’s license; the app will tell you where all the DMV offices are and tell you their rating on a corruption basis.” “People know there’s corruption,” Motte-Munoz adds. “We’re... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog

years, the course has enjoyed very high ratings from PE firms and students and is an excellent relationship-building opportunity. Projects range from sector vertical analysis, portfolio operations, re-underwriting failed deals, deal... View Details

26 Feb 2021
News

Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

interested Latino professionals prepare themselves to be considered for board positions. The virtual event was the second in a series of webinars offered as part of a coordinated campaign by the two alumni clubs, with consulting help from... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Fangfang Wang

more than public sector support. “If you can’t engage the private sector and persuade consumers, you can’t get more people to use clean technology,” she says. Fangfang sustained an interest in using private-sector principles to achieve... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; CPG

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

affordable housing instead of allowing developers to build new higher-priced housing? If there was more high-priced housing in the market, wouldn’t other tiers become cheaper? —Gene Pao (MBA 1997) OAKES: We have to make it easier to build both market View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

Donald Trump’s administration is requiring hospitals to publish their charges in a way that consumers can easily understand, starting in January. The required information includes the rates hospitals negotiate with insurers. For their... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

of the current seven individual tax brackets with three brackets, with rates at 12 percent, 25 percent, and 35 percent. A 20 percent corporate tax rate, down from 39.1 percent. Establish a 25 percent rate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

In the United States, employers have often treated health benefits as a necessary evil. They have focused on the rising cost of providing health insurance benefits and taken aggressive steps to bring costs down, or at least to slow the View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

sectors while being very much aware of the degree to which what we learn does or does not translate to energy. Q: What do you see as the most pressing change needed to drive clean energy innovation? A: We need to have a price for carbon. Simply trying to improve View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

the issue and influences their own hiring and promotion decisions. Peter Bowie underlined the point by saying, “Equal opportunity to be ‘selected’ is one of the keys to the solution.” A direct appeal to the economic interests of investors... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

investments. Using both calendar-time portfolio stock return regressions and firm-level panel regressions we find that firms with good ratings on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms with poor View Details