Media Rights Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2014
News

Forecasting ’15

Then we networked that digital information together. And now we can analyze that information in new and powerful ways. That’s really going to be the big payoff from the feeding of the electronic health records process. Because right now,... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2008
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Where Are They Now?

media wanted Glauber’s expert opinion. After all, he played a key role in setting up the Resolution Trust Corporation to handle the S&L bailout in the late 1980s, and he helped formulate regulatory reform of commercial banks in the early... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Jun 2014
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Net Gains

getting games on TV, online, and, increasingly, in consumers' hands via mobile devices. From there, the league needs to figure out the right media partners to distribute the product. If all that succeeds,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

special committees can use to level the playing field: for example, contractual commitments from management that allow the board to run the process; pre-signing rather than post-signing market checks; information rights rather than match... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

the impact of inventory on sales and the interrelationship between gross margin and inventory. We also estimate the effects of exogenous explanatory variables such as store growth, proportion of new inventory, capital investment per... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2014
News

Taking up the issue of climate change

vice chair. He and his wife also cofounded the Environmental Media Association, which encourages environmental awareness in the entertainment industry. "We believe that the overwhelming environmental issue facing the world View Details

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

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsArtisan Entertainment Inc. Harvard Business School Case 207-067 Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As part of their separation, they... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

and Amazon are the established players in this new frontier—but the number of upstart media companies vying for viewers means that the landscape could look completely different down the road. “It’s a gold rush,” says HBS senior lecturer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

Portrait Project

Matthew Mahoney

I want to do. I want to create environments where the safety is for the dreamers and the discomfort for those playing it safe. I want to participate in companies and relationships where imagination, failure, tinkered disruption and risk View Details

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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds | Baker Library

Help Center Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds How can I create a list of start-up or venture capital backed companies in a particular industry? In Capital IQ : Mouse... View Details

04 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 4

market for psychologists, in which stable matchings exist for all years of the data, despite the presence of couples. August 2013 Harvard Business Review Choosing the Right Customer By: Simons, Robert Abstract—Companies that win in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Bonds: data | Baker Library

Help Center Bonds: data Where do I find data on bonds? Bloomberg Use the GOVT or CORP yellow keys For yield curves, type FMCI , then hit GO Capital IQ Screening Go to Screening > Fixed Income See Fixed Income section on the lower View Details

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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

“home-run” deals to troubled investments. (The course does not cover venture capital or real estate segments of PE.) Through these case studies, the goal of the class is to understand when and how private equity firms consistently add... View Details

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

in applications, although just how many students shy away from applying depends largely on how widely the incident is reported in the media. The June research paper The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications shows that a college with a scandal splashed... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

26 Jul 2018
News

Running the Numbers

social media,” Gelman explains. Several years ago, the Patriots relied on similar analytics to re-invent its marketing to women, launching successful merchandising, a new online content section called Patriots Lifestyle, and social media... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

as they participate in and shape cross-border trade and investment. Career Focus This course should interest any student who plans to work for a firm with transnational interests or investments or students with significant interests in the global and domestic politics... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

natural course of things is often upended by someone saying, ‘This is what I really need right now,’” says Mahesh. “That tends to change the priorities of your plan and development cycle.” Knock out!, an NVC winner in 2012, brought... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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