Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

existing railway and new light rail network. Finally, the Asian Development Bank has agreed to a $650 million loan to cover capital costs for electrification of an initial 110-kilometer railway line running through Colombo from the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-064 The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Management of Globalization No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716064-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

want to tell the academy that we think CEO activism is a very interesting phenomenon well worth studying, and we think there are lots of interesting questions to explore. So we hope this is the first word rather than the last word in management research around this... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

home. The idea of a national bank, or any bank at all, ran counter to his revolutionary spirit. Q: You suggest that these men's immigrant backgrounds gave them the ability to see capital as a mobile, rootless entity, since they had those... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

environment is any indicator, biotech companies - and the large pharmaceutical firms many of them are affiliated with - won't be the only sector of the economy trying to capitalize on the new pool of genetic information. In a recent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

opportunities that they did have. The relative inflexibility has crept in since the 1970s—and not just for reasons internal to the company. The second reason is that they had the human capital, knowledge, and skills to take advantage of the opportunities that presented... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on liquidation, not only as a means for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

option when they look at their financial returns and decide to share some of the wealth with their employees or their communities. That's what John Tu and David Sun did when they sold 80 percent of their company, Kingston Technologies, to Softbank, the Japanese venture... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

are largely outside the public’s interest and understanding—e.g., rulemaking for bank capital adequacy, actuarial standards, accounting standards, and auditing practice—and in these areas, corporate managers, auditors, and bankers possess... View Details

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

variability than was the case historically. Under the new policy, dividends would be tied to the company's underwriting results, its performance relative to predetermined goals, and a target payout ratio. Progressive's new policy was intended to help with overall View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

populations, such as people facing homelessness, hunger, and the loss of critical services due to COVID-19, and will be distributed to charitable organizations across the state, according to the Boston Globe. Among the donors who contributed seed View Details

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

Large numbers of entrepreneurs are self-deploying in this space and will be, and large amounts of capital are being deployed and will be. More companies are finding themselves trying to solve public problems. There are a lot of lessons in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful controls for factors... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

endeavors remain "unnatural acts": Far too many large businesses are better at stifling innovation than at capitalizing on it, better at optimizing local operations than at integrating them for the good of the enterprise and its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

high levels of entrepreneurial activity, which in turn gave me a large enough sample to work with. Second, it is not an industry where venture capital activity is very high, making it a good setting to study growth in the absence of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

difficulty responding. By defining the rules and boundaries of the competition, Juniper was able to capitalize on Cisco's first-mover momentum. Lick 'em by joining 'em. When the owner of an independent coffeehouse in Oakland, Calif., saw... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

and three previous recipients had their funding extended. Moni Alli (MBA 2021) , founder of Front Edge, a lending platform in Lagos, Nigeria, that provides access to affordable working capital solutions. Nelly-Ange Kontchou (MD/MBA 2018)... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

Elective Curriculum (Second Year) Authentic Leadership Development Leading Professional Service Firms Leading Teams Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Managing Human Capital Power and Influence The Moral Leader... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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