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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
But they are riskier than the stock market, so cryptocurrency markets are dominated by speculators or traders. Another constituent is the long-term investors, who take a long-horizon macro view on these assets being a less-dumb form of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
(MBA 2009) “Space companies are starting to look like tech companies, and that’s huge.” ——Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) While SpaceX is a relatively august entrant into the market, it wasn’t until three years ago that it shook up the industry by offering very aggressive,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
backing the most promising entrepreneurs. The rules of engagement need to be clear. If you’re dealing with investments that may or may not result in successful ventures, you should have contingency plans, such as what to do if a company’s View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
young consumers. I believe that will be true in our case. How would you describe the Starbucks company culture? It is highly aspirational and very people-oriented. Starbucks gives stock options to all employees (we call them partners); we... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
for me, there's a Staples at the corner. I park, grab my laptop and my briefcase, and sprint down the street. The guy at Staples tells me I can recover my disk with Norton Utilities. I tell him I'm no tekkie, but he tells me it's real easy to use. I'm in a hurry, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
its ties to the Soviet Union. Later that summer, a government plan to again dramatically increase the price of food and other basic commodities sparked large, violent protests in Warsaw and its suburbs. The unrest led to the formation of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
professor Quinn Mills dissects the other half of the artificially supported 1990s bull market in Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms. This time around, he focuses on large corporations that fattened View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
you want to go to the next level of regulation and oversight. And so if you’re trying to raise a $500 million fund, that means the price tag is $5 million, let’s say, as an investor. So that’s why I see a lot more women involved in angel... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
"considerable difficulty" in getting the magazine out on time, had cut the publication schedule to six times a year and set a subscription price of 75¢ a year, which was included in the $2 annual Alumni Association dues. Bates, who... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
emerging markets where local stock exchange listings have grown, liquidity in many Latin American exchanges has diminished in recent years. The purchase of local, family-owned companies and state-owned enterprises by outside... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
an idea that is validated in the market. I understand the demand. I understand price points. I understand how to communicate and commercialize this with the consumer. And then, oh by the way, if we do things right, that innovation... View Details