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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World... View Details
Frank A. Vanderlip
Because of his extensive study of European public and private financing systems during 1901, Vanderlip helped National City Bank become a tremendous resource for American businesses wishing to expand abroad.... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
physician’s assistant major. But somewhere in my first semester at Howard my roommate’s father came to visit. He was an entrepreneur. He started talking about finance and accounting and how it all worked. That was a pivotal moment for me.... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Federal Reserve's 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances indicated that the average PAYDEX score of those surveyed was 53.4. By contrast, the 2011 NFIB Annual Small Business Finance Survey indicated that the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
business start-up. Furthermore, most women have learned that they need help to create and build their businesses. They are assembling multi-talented entrepreneurial teams that bring a broad base of resources—including initial financial investment money. Outside sources... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it relates to our housing View Details
- 09 May 2014
- News
Giant Alibaba Sale Grew Out of '80s IPO Chaos and a Guy From Goldman
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
wellness and medical technology—always seeking to maximize financial returns while delivering social and environmental impact." During her time at Funk, she connected with the Calvert Foundation, a non-profit investing institution providing View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
industries, and foreign firms will think twice before entering into such a market." "My question is why FDI finances 40 percent of investment in Malaysia vis-à-vis Hong Kong where FDI finances... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
essential to the functioning of VC and the technology-based industries in which VCs often invest. And in addition to person-to-person social networks, firm-to-firm networks are vital in both contexts. "For example, about two-thirds of venture capital View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
Apax has taken public more than fifty companies with a combined market capitalization of about 25 billion euros. Before stepping down, Cohen consolidated management of the firm’s far-flung offices, making London the headquarters and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
financial sponsors to help them think about the right time to take a company public or to raise equity capital, the right valuation for a stock, and which investors to target. I also help the company craft its story for the marketplace,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“One more door is shut in terms of how seniors can find the money to survive as they age.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, reacting to news that Wells Fargo has joined Bank of America in no longer offering reverse mortgages. (American View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
be paid for that social performance at a rate that enables it to give a satisfactory return to the investors,” says Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), a cocreator of the idea. Cohen has emerged as the public face of social investing in the UK... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
explores the hidden world of statistics that rule individuals’ lives, jobs, commutes, vacations, food, health, money, and success. Statistics are how engineers calculate a person’s quality of life, how corporations determine individual needs, and how politicians... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
When public television’s Charlie Rose asked Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry M. (“Hank”) Paulson Jr. (MBA ’70) whether his firm, a pure investment bank, could survive in a world dominated by consolidations, Paulson didn’t miss a beat:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and Italian investors who View Details
- September 2019 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)
By: Herman Leonard, Mitch Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman
James "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. Overseeing acquisitions in one of the... View Details
Keywords: Open Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Prototyping; Navy; Entrepreneurship; Public Equity; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Acquisition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; United States
Leonard, Herman, Mitch Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 820-047, September 2019. (Revised September 2020.)
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain’s Financial Services Authority has an-nounced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to... View Details