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- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boomor Bust?
particular entrepreneurial project can identify key phases of uncertainty, yield a list of potential outcomes of each phase, and provide an assessment of the likelihood of those various outcomes. This kind of thoughtful review constitutes... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Silver Lining
Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member of Enron’s international View Details
- November 1973 (Revised November 1991)
- Case
Economy Shipping Co. (Abridged)
By: Thomas R. Piper
Shipping company must choose among several mutually exclusive investment projects. View Details
Piper, Thomas R. "Economy Shipping Co. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 274-092, November 1973. (Revised November 1991.)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Bolivia, to an energy project in India. Classroom discussion is supplemented with workshops (including a four-day finance workshop), study groups, and out-of-class projects. The week-long Poverty Module,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)
Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
where the nature of work is more virtual, collaborative, and transparent, information flows every which way, careers zig and zag, and work is what you do, not where you go. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy by... View Details
- January 2018 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Colombia's 4G Road Program: The Pacífico 3 Bond Offer
By: John Macomber, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
Colombia conceived its 4G (Fourth Generation) Road Program to try to attract $17 billion from the private sector for investment in toll roads. The nation had also created the National Infrastructure Agency of Colombia (ANI) to oversee multiple investments, and the... View Details
Keywords: Private Public Partnerships; Infrastructure; Projects; Finance; Emerging Markets; Colombia
Macomber, John, Maria Fernanda Miguel, and Mariana Cal. "Colombia's 4G Road Program: The Pacífico 3 Bond Offer." Harvard Business School Case 218-062, January 2018. (Revised January 2021.)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
as a means of moving tax-evading money across borders, I conducted a highly structured research project involving 550 business owners and managers in 12 countries. Later, when I came to the Brookings Institution, I traveled to 23... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
and former Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, who now advises the company. Altogether, Double Time has financed 36 solar energy projects, which collectively produce roughly 10% of North Carolina’s solar power and power around 30,000 homes in the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
went on to serve as deputy project manager for the $200 million renovation of Grand Central Terminal as a vice president with LaSalle Partners from 1994 to 1996. In 2012, the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art recognized his work... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Scott P. Mason Remembered
to the HBS community on the occasion of Mason's death. Mason, who left the School last year to become president and CEO of Investment Technology Group, a New York based financial firm, joined the HBS faculty in 1980. In 1993, he was named the Edmund Cogswell Converse... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful, well-educated population and is now... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
private equity firms and strategic companies. With this effect, a strategic company financing multiple long-term projects won't be as drawn to take advantage of cheap debt just because it's available, for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
tradeoffs, and how her current role compares with her career expectations when she graduated from HBS. “I’m the CEO of the Council for Economic Education. We’re a national not-for-profit that teaches little kids about the real world through lessons in personal View Details
- June 2015
- Teaching Note
Schӧn Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for Schon Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value. View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
decided that she didn’t have the right technology skills to make it viable. It was in her second year that she discovered how her finance background could help her show others how to align portfolios with principles. Building on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
comprised only a fifth of the entire student body (at 22 years old, she was also one of the youngest). “Because there were so few of us, it was easier to catch the attention of whichever professor, to have the chance to speak when we raised our hand,” she says. In her... View Details
- March 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Chase's Strategy for Syndicating the Hong Kong Disneyland Loan (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Project Finance; Relationships; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Tourism Industry; Hong Kong
Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "Chase's Strategy for Syndicating the Hong Kong Disneyland Loan (B)." Harvard Business School Case 201-086, March 2001. (Revised March 2003.)