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- 01 May 2013
- News
Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
how I look at problems, which has been really helpful to me in my investing career,” says Dean, who cofounded the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in 2005 after 20 years with DLJ Merchant Banking... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
to make high-stakes decisions that affect a lot of people, and you have to act quickly or you're in trouble," Carpenter explains. "Managing an Internet firm is just like that." Despite the challenge, under Carpenter's expert guidance, her... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- March 2019
- Teaching Note
KITEA (A)—(F)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This Teaching Note accompanies the KITEA series of cases, which details how the Moroccan furniture company KITEA prepared for the entry of IKEA into the Moroccan market and describes the outcome of that entry. View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
organizations in private industry could learn from the example of Data.gov to the extent of unlocking data from individual silos in their firm even though data remain protected within firewalls. HBS... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
started his first year at HBS. His experiences in New York and six years of prior service in the Marines combined for a firm base of public-sector problem-solving experience. Business school, he thought, could provide balance for the... View Details
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John Clayton
engaging external partners within the international development community. Despite the high-quality exposure, John felt a need “for something different, less bureaucratic” and turned toward the MBA “as a platform to transition into the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
should find the capital markets attractive. Private equity and venture capital have played a major role in providing equity to firms before they are ready to access the capital markets. Foreign direct... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Steve Cagnetta
Steve Cagnetta is a co-founder and Principal of Company Counsel, LLC, an out-sourced general counsel firm focused on representing emerging companies. He has spent the past 20+ years advising entrepreneurs and startups on the business and... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
to work in your favor for that next job. And privacy disclosure notices on websites, rather than convincing consumers that their private data is well protected, can make them less likely to make a purchase. Here is recent research on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
welfare,” Desai noted. Middle-Skills Gap Senior Lecturer Joe Fuller worked with consulting firm Accenture and workforce analytics company Burning Glass Technologies to produce a report highlighting the ways employers can foster the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
boy, Bill Donaldson went on to cofound the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. After fourteen years there, he began to take on a series of other leadership challenges in business, government, and academia. Most... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Furthermore, a third experiment shows that people tend to discount the wrongness of crossing ethical boundaries to hurt or help others when the action restores equity. The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
(e.g., hospitals, medical groups, retail clinics) or in firms that partner with, supply, consult to, or invest in such organizations (e.g., payers, biopharmaceutical and device companies, health information technology, venture capital and... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) - Course Catalog
costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures, Financial Management of Smaller View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
but their passive investment nature offers few checks on those companies’ executives. Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds As investors increasingly demand investment opportunities that match their social beliefs, financial services View Details