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- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
significantly enhance economic growth and job creation at the local, regional, and national levels. In the next post in our series, Mills will look at the emerging industry of online lenders that are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
technologies to come) is needed to develop that knowledge. "Education is a $3 trillion industry globally, and no player in the world controls even 1 percent of it," he says. "I think there will be a Facebook or Google in learning. I'd... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
who took a start-up course at CWE after being laid off from her job as a pet groomer. She now owns Animal Spirits, a successful pet-grooming store in Cambridge. Next to her is Carrie, who came to CWE looking for advice on how to expand her View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
211-090 Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant amount of the firm's capital in the senior bonds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
everywhere they perform, with filters to explore genres, ensembles, studios, or professionals and the places they teach. The site is currently focused on San Francisco and Los Angeles, thanks to early funding from friends and family, but... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
students, and achieve top-quality research. Publisher Link: http://www.amazon.com/Building-World-Class-Universities-Asia/dp/1453707778 The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed Authors:Robert Pozen and Theresa Hamacher Publication:John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709017 JetBlue Airways: Managing Growth Harvard Business School Case 609-046 Considers the situation facing David Barger, President and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
depression, led to a crisis in the industry. Nonetheless, the pioneering group of forecasters shaped the core problems, and invented many of the techniques, that influenced the maturation of the industry in the decades that followed.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
if nothing else, has fostered a sense of entrepreneurship and opportunity in the renewable energy sectors." And Chip Levy suggests that "This is a great time to leap into a growth industry ...We... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
capital firms. 54 In addition, ARD was formed as a closed-end investment fund regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which placed limits on how those working for ARD could be compensated. Employees, for example, were... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
development, wealth, and job creation in the inner city. The advisory component of its mission seemed well underway, but raising a fund to directly finance client companies had proved challenging. As Next Street considered expanding its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Prita Kumar
wellness growing up,” she said, referring to Booya Fitness, her nascent startup venture. From the age of 12, when the scorching Houston summers kept her indoors, Kumar started working out to fitness DVDs such as Billy Blanks Tae Bo videos. “To me, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
gradually give up operating excellence, because it gets in the way of growth. How has the economic downturn affected Kimpton’s growth strategy? It’s definitely a big opportunity. Over the last couple of years we raised two View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
turnaround distressed companies. But as CD&R entered into its fifth decade and its largest fund to date (nearly $10 billion AUM), competition, AUMs, industry "dry powder," and buyout valuations... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
greatest success factor: disciplined leadership. The authors relate the stories of executives who have successfully broken through the barriers of growth to identify what they all have in common. They supplement these findings with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
had worked as a design engineer at Procter and Gamble, in addition to having cofounded a social enterprise that successfully commercialized biodegradable sanitary pads in India. Saigal started looking into the $10 billion diaper industry... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
technology. Private capital flows—debt finance, equity capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI)—became larger than current and past official capital flows. This new era of foreign capital mobility has also been characterized by low interest rates in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
reach its aggressive growth targets. In the summer of 2016, after an intense few months of talks with potential investors, Ozbugutu was looking at five competitive term sheets from funds with great fintech... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne