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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
philanthropic structures Foundations, DAFs, and other vehicles are most often, in my experience, “pass through” entities wherein the donor uses the benefits of tax planning and simplicity of donation to give the money and then, over the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
this to VCs, they thought we were crazy,” Sapone says. There was the increase in cost structure and concerns about scalability. “But these are people we’re sending to your home to take care of you: They are our product.” Providing steady... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
Note on U.S. Public Education Finance (A): Revenues Harvard Business School Note 307-069 Describes the revenue structure of U.S. public education. Covers funding by federal, state, and local governments. Examines in detail two federal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
major improvements in economic performance nearly everywhere they were adopted or imposed. Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151-162. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
systems and capabilities that are needed for going to and operating at scale that would take the social icon years to build. So structured correctly, an acquisition strategy can effectively marry the brand strength and "social... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
Structure and Performance of Corporate Headquarters." Among their findings: Contrary to popular belief, European HQs were smaller than American HQs. And the much-touted "lean and mean" ideal does not necessarily lead to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
capital markets and firms’ social, environmental, and governance performance. Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, also had ties to HBS before joining the faculty. After earning her doctorate in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
long-term proposition that often requires years of complicated research, negotiation, construction, and drilling before a drop of oil or a penny of profit is produced. The capital required to initiate and to sustain this far-flung... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the conference, chosen by a... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
apartheid and its first democratic elections in 1994, was doing everything right. They had liberalized the economy. They had enacted economic reforms that made it easy for foreign capital to flow in and out. They performed well on various... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
connectors. China, which outstrips both Europe and the United States in terms of EV adoption, wants to put 3 to 5 million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020. China’s central government has also opened the state-run power sector to private View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
among others. The course also features an online computer-gaming simulation that enables students to compete against one another as rival SaaS firms vying for users, market position, and capital investment. Case classes are organized into... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Lehman bankruptcy. Baena must decide if there is an opportunity, how to structure a trade to exploit it, and how much of her fund's capital to allocate. Case exposition includes descriptions of basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
governance structures and norms in place, businesses could help put people, including their workers, and the planet back at their core. Through a series of essays, the book exposes the fault lines between democracy and View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
into a variety of conflict resolution and collaboration models. Business and political leadership is transitioning from a family or clan-based structure to one of greater heterogeneity and professionalization. It is also transitioning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions, including capital structure and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
that with the first scholarly business history of Modern Turkey. Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives was co-edited by Asli M. Colpan, of the Kyoto University, Graduate School of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne