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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected
research initiatives, including the new FIELD course required of all first-year students. And it increased investment in capital projects. For example, $16 million went to renovating the former WGBH building... View Details
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
A few months ago, I wrote about the ridiculous increase in velocity that we are seeing in the venture capital market in my post, Velocity and Venture Capital: 11. Now that summer is upon us, I want to reflect on the subtle value of... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
Despite their best efforts, most companies continue to squander what may be their greatest asset in today's knowledge economy: the wealth of expertise, ideas, and latent insights that lies scattered across or deeply embedded in their organizations. And that's a shame,... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
productivity requires a large middle class that can afford to consume what is being produced. Solve the economic inequality problem, and we will solve the slow growth problem as well as a lot of other societal problems.” Gamaliel Pascual... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
environmental standards that require coordinated complementary investments by various types of private adopter. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2142085 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-089... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
such beliefs emerge in equilibrium even if depositors and bank owners have the same preferences and the same investment opportunities. Various government regulations of these institutions, including minimum capital levels, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
Change (2000). He led the development of the School's first required course in human resource management in the 1980s and then cowrote Managing Human Assets (1984), the first book to frame human resource management as a general management... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
longer profitable or missing new areas that might yield more profits as the market changes or both. Finally, when it comes to reducing the firm’s cost of capital, consider the basics: Financing needs are driven by the cash on hand and the working View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself, raising the required capital from "friendly" investors and building shipment volume slowly, or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
predictive and prescriptive implications, this theory contributes to the general notion that pricing might affect as much as capture perceived value. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-055.pdf Capital Structure with Risky Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
It is easy to myopically focus on the headline grabbing “green” startups, but the urgency of the problem requires an “all hands on deck” approach. “Greening” is not a moment, but a process. It is easy to be inspired by Denmark’s history... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
that can't be accessed from a distance. In Concert With Capitalism Porter also said he's concerned that agendas of economic and social policy are viewed increasingly as conflicting. "There's a growing sense that something is wrong... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
ways of choosing channels, customers, and modes of revenue-generation. We weigh selling to governments or selling around them. We also look at raising capital for these business models and investing in them. Scale. We ask how do private... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Field 2 Gives Students Hands-On Exposure To Business Practices In Malaysia
capital as part of FIELD 2, the second module of the required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development. She and her five teammates helped Groupon Malaysia explore the potential for... View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
initiatives, new equipment, or anything novel that would require significant expenditures. This, of course, brings about hard feelings among employees in other departments that do consider themselves as business results drivers. They... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
capital costs, have very low operating (marginal) costs, and have few investment opportunities. As a result, projects generate large amounts of "free cash flow" (cash flow in excess of what is needed to finance all positive NPV... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
likely to continue due to privatization, deregulation, and globalization. “In an increasingly global business environment, achieving minimum efficient scale in production requires massive capital... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
significant amounts of capital required to get the company to an exit event given the changing climate for clean tech investments? These questions became more pressing following Lerner's call that Bluelock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
outlines how to make this change: “A successful transition plan leverages technological innovation and regulation. Many technologies are ready for deployment but require project financing to scale. Other earlier-stage and riskier... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to... View Details