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  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

challenges and opportunities facing small businesses, the rise of fintech innovation, and the policy implications for regulation. Martha Lagace: How do you define small business? Karen Mills: Small businesses are all different, of course.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit

having the opportunity to invest in people and ideas. From developing investment themes, underwriting deals, and partnering with management, no two days are ever the same. What... View Details
  • January 2008
  • Article

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets

By: Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner and David Scharfstein
It is well documented that the venture capital industry is highly volatile and that much of this volatility is associated with shifting valuations and activity in public equity markets. This paper examines how changes in public market signals affected venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Market Cycles; Venture Capital; Investment; Experience and Expertise; Public Equity; Volatility; Financial Services Industry
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  • 19 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

led me to pursue opportunities in the investment and technology sectors while at HBS. During the recruiting process with Shell, I had the opportunity to interact with senior... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology
  • September 2013 (Revised January 2016)
  • Case

The Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (A)

By: Paul A. Gompers, Bora Uluduz and Firdevs Abacioglu
This case concerns the proposed buyout of Acibadem, a leading hospital chain in Turkey. Abraaj, a MENA region private equity firm, proposes to make its first investment in Turkey. The case highlights the role of Turkish health care reform in driving the value. The... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Health Care and Treatment; Europe
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  • 2023
  • Article

Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation

By: Jonas Meckling and Jesse Strecker
Climate policy has entered a new era as public investment is increasingly moving to center stage, including recovery spending and long-term climate investment plans. While essential for decarbonization, public investment is not enough – the carrots of investment need... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Environmental Regulation; Climate Change; Policy; Motivation and Incentives
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  • Fast Answer

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

private companies; information on investment firms and capital transactions; For a multimedia learning module on Capital IQ check out our Learn... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2021
  • News

Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

which was how the pandemic would affect their careers. In response, CPD made it a priority to ensure that students would still have the breadth of internship and full-time opportunities available to them as did previous classes—a near... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
  • 09 Mar 2021
  • News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Joseph R. Biden Jr., in his “Plan for Education Beyond High School,” encourages investments in community colleges and technical programs as pathways to opportunity that improve student achievement and grow a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • January 2010
  • Case

Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani

Asheesh Advani is in an enviable position for a successful entrepreneur: he has sold his business and is trying to decide what to do with the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investment; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career
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  • March 2010 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

Looking for Opportunity in Adversity: Iqbal Quadir and Grameenphone (A)

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti and David Lane
Iqbal Quadir, a former New York investment banker, set about to bring universal telecommunications to his native Bangladesh. He was convinced that, GSM, the same advanced wireless technology that penetrated developed countries in Europe was also the right solution for... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Bangladesh
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  • 02 Jun 2022
  • Video

Risks, Opportunities, and Investments In the Era of Climate Change

  • 25 Jul 2011
  • News

Five Tips for Coping with Uncertainty — and Finding Opportunity

  • March 2014
  • Article

Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations

By: Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S. Verdi and Gwen Yu
This paper examines how the external information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects the investment decisions of multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that the investment decisions of foreign subsidiaries in country-industries... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Multinational Firms; Cross-border Frictions; Agency Frictions; Transparency; Financial Reporting Quality; Information Quality; Information; Multinational Firms and Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Creating opportunities for growth in the Philippines

Karen Singson (MBA 2008) talks about working in the Philippine government to encourage foreign investment. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • Web

Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

identify their defining elements, such as size, risk, and liquidity Develop the confidence and ability to assess potential investment opportunities and maximize the value of View Details
  • Feb 2014
  • Case

Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities

This overview describes how the United States funds and finances infrastructure investment to maintain its economic competitiveness. It considers the roles of taxpayers, users, government allocators and lenders, and private investors in... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy return on investment. But take a cue from smart science-based businesses, which view the recession as an opportunity to stoke up research and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical
  • September 2012 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Doing Business in Ghana

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Elena Corsi
An entrepreneur considered investing in tomato paste manufacturing in Ghana, an emerging economy, and pondered the opportunities and challenges of investing here. Ghana's economy had been growing over the last decade, reaching a peak of 14.4% growth rate in 2011. Now a... View Details
Keywords: Emergent Countries; Strategy; Opportunity Cost; Emerging Markets; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Ghana
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  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders

Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five years, and in August 2022... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie