Growth Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2004
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HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report

2.8 percent to a total of $294 million. Commenting on the results, HBS chief financial officer Richard P. Melnick (MBA ’92) notes, “The combination of tight fiscal discipline and renewed revenue growth across the School allowed us to make... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Brothers, stretching over a century and a half, reflects the role of investment banking in the development and growth of the U.S. economy. Founded in the mid-nineteenth century, the family partnership... View Details

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

you’re not able to invest there.” Moonfare’s story offers insights for any company seeking new growth opportunities as its target market matures. While PE returns have outpaced stock market gains in the... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

take action to speed up economic growth and improve the standard of living by providing a stable and effective legal environment for business operations; equal opportunities for the public and private sectors; View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more than $127 billion View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

Last year, Echoing Green, which invests in social entrepreneurs, chose SHE as one of the most innovative social change organizations worldwide, providing it with seed money and technical support. It has been a fast-paced two years since... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

07 Feb 2018
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Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman

August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in cost-cutting changes, including 400... View Details

Keywords: Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) left his job as an investment banker in New York to move back to his native Senegal as an advisor to the minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. The position would entail developing the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to live here, then you have to make... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Dec 2005
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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... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nejo.12003/abstract Working PapersInvestment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes Abstract We study incentives to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

globalization of real estate is a positive change for this sector—and for other sectors as well. Real estate investment is about forming relationships, and from relationships come other business opportunities. Cross-border real estate... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Oct 1998
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Going Against the Flow

and those of developed countries. When capital is flowing freely throughout the world, there is tremendous growth and opportunity in emerging markets. But when the tap is turned off, you have major crashes and dislocations." Despite his... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice

(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a... View Details

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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

currently developed countries when they first emerged. The course should, in short, appeal to anyone considering spending part of their career working, investing, or thinking outside of the major developed markets. Educational Objectives The majority of economic View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Harvard’s Next Frontier

John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co., has made the largest gift in the University’s history—a $400 million endowment to support the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences... View Details

Keywords: Drew Faust

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

preceding decades. Similarly, the assumption that tires was a growth industry was enacted through the capital budgeting process that resulted in a steady stream of new factories being built to meet rising demand. When faced with the... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Mar 2009
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HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

business model produced a third consecutive year of double-digit revenue growth despite a slowing economy. That model is based on faculty research that brings professors into contact with business leaders across the United States and... View Details