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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
functioning as a fully public and transparent body. By contrast, he noted, the Fed is not an entirely public institution, and while it can offer liquidity to troubled firms through loans, “many actual bailouts require equity infusions,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
companies to source capital — the equity markets exited this business for the most part when oil prices fell to such low levels in 1997 and 1998, and banks slowed down their lending as well." "If smaller companies can grow off an... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
see that there are a lot more female investors that are getting involved. But there’s a bottleneck for the exits that typically venture capitalists are looking for in terms of going public. Now you have a lot of these private companies that are basically funded by... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
you either-- basically, it's the point of no return, where you either take off or you crash. And so I had a V1 marker that I wanted to have moonlighting revenue at half my salary. I'd have a business plan to get to the remaining half within a year. I'd have a home... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
together.” As equal partners, each had to come up with $14,000 to satisfy Charterhouse. This is where Rogers’ Porsche came into play. Incredibly, its Blue Book value was exactly $14,000, so Rogers sold it to the company, used the proceeds as his View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
requirements for equity ownership by directors, and bylaws should require them. The “play money” distributed in the form of stock options and gifts of restricted stock should not be included. Directors should have a meaningful percentage... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
globe. Steve Schwarzman: That was a disaster. And you know that was probably the most impactful investment we made in at least our first 10, 15 years in business because, you know, we basically wiped out our equity in our third... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
nonprofits, as well as individuals with an annual income of at least $200,000 or a net worth of at least $1 million, excluding the value of one's primary residence.) "It's essentially a form of equity crowdfunding," says Farquharson. "We... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
focused on creating social equity and economic self-sufficiency, Silbert has a simple take on what ties her career together: "I'm a problem solver. I love digging into an issue and the analytical rigor of doing a scan of existing research... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
powerful and beneficial incentive effects, Hall discussed the challenges and tradeoffs involved in designing equity-based pay plans. For example, option pay is sometimes falsely viewed as “costless” to the company and therefore leads to abuse and excess. In addition,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Trust your instincts. “Make sure you can raise your hand and say, ‘Something doesn’t look right.’ ” Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference February 1, 2003 Sponsor: HBS Venture Capital & Private Equity... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
John Rice (MBA 1992) John Rice (MBA 1992) Will the weeks of protest and statements of support for racial equity lead to lasting change for the country—or will we once again lose steam and move on to the next crisis, without making... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
traction the business got in the market but by the number of people we were able to employ. In 2009, while I was working in Senegal with a private equity firm, Ndidi and I noticed that a huge amount of the packaged food in stores was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd. We formed a Dean’s Anti-Racism Taskforce to examine what we need to do and announced a plan to advance racial equity at the School. We must now implement this plan and show results over... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
actually going to a physical locale. "A lot of our MBAs are taking a good shot at the entry barriers set up by establishments that have spent twenty years and a lot of money building brand equity in retail locations," he notes. As... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
personalization, equity and access, and cost control. The goal of the book, however, is not to make a case for blended learning—rather, it’s to provide educators with a step-by-step road map for disrupting their classrooms. See Also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
money searching for the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums, and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future by Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy (Stanford University... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
dirty, expensive fossil fuels. Oscilla is currently raising money on the equity crowdfunding platform StartEngine to deploy a megawatt version of Triton off the coast of Kerala in 2022. The decision to launch its commercial-scale system... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
exercises that have them realize this will be me. I can’t just shrug it off as a, “No, I’m not going to be susceptible to homophily.” There’s a magnetic pull towards equality, founding teams, the most common way that they’re going to split the View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
to admit talented students regardless of their financial means, creating a diverse classroom that enhances the learning experience for all. Gender Initiative: This initiative was launched in 2015 to support research, teaching, and knowledge dissemination that promote... View Details