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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
collateral and liquidate it at the first sign of trouble. Thus traditional banks have a stable source of funding, while shadow banks are subject to runs and fire-sale losses. These different funding models... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
risk because I was still a student," he says. Initially, EyeView's model was devoted to helping businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
especially those with widely diversified product portfolios, are a dominant and critical enterprise model in emerging and developing economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor—sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has devised a number of principles and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
as mutual funds and pensions that wanted to invest in those securities. Investment banks also provided advice on mergers and acquisitions. In the early 1980s the derivative markets were quite small and relatively unsophisticated, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to invest all that money? Typically we’ll invest a new fund over a three-year period, and then go out and raise our next fund. Accel IX, which we started investing in January 2005, is very much focused on consumer Internet, mobile... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point out that the company’s business View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the service. But that’s not going to happen because the largest investors in bonds — banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds — aren’t willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I... View Details
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
representation on boards, and even the potential to create social good. Covering both public and private markets, the course will present the unprecedented opportunities that have arisen due to energy transition and other trends through rigorous approaches to business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
States. For sovereign wealth funds eager to deploy capital, the experience of the last two decades of investing in the United States is a cautionary tale. While firms and countries can be tempted to think that they have a unique... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Natty. The pair grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia, where the proprietor of a local forest products company spotted McArthur’s potential and helped fund his college education. Upon earning his MBA, McArthur entered the DBA program and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
regulation—prohibition, in fact—for federally funded research into an area of great promise while, at the same time, we have no regulation at all in the field of reproduction. Clearly, I wouldn't want to see tight constraints put on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
Research Center lab. When it didn't see the results it sought, Xerox terminated further funding for projects that we know today as Ethernet (by 3Com) and PostScript (by Adobe). These projects were evaluated within Xerox and judged not to... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
this problem was a good fit to my personality. What I found powerful is that for me I had to have a model of how each of the different parties to the negotiation saw the world, what their pressures on them were, where their View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Some investors want the company to license its technology to semiconductor companies. Others want the company to become a "lableless" semiconductor company producing and selling its own products. The question for the team at Nantero is, what View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
133,000 weekly active users, but Propel had a limited funding runway, and, ahead of a meeting with investors, Chen has to select a business model. He evaluates data from two ongoing business model... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel