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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
differences between consumers in the United States and Europe was just one of the topics covered at the fourth annual European Business Conference, presented November 21 and 22 by students of the HBS European Club. Other panels considered... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Behind Apple's Tax Situation, an Unprecedented Financial Policy
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
sales. He leads a team dedicated to assisting inexperienced entrepreneurs as well as longtime industry players who “require a new way of thinking about common issues.” The team provides strategic planning, coaching, and mentoring, and access to View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs
According to a recent study by the venture capital research firm VentureOne, even in average economic times, women CEOs typically receive just 6 percent of the $69 billion available in venture capital in the... View Details
William R. Hearst
journalism" enabled him to capitalize on the public's thirst for exaggerated stories, and in the process, his circulation numbers soared. Though he was reviled as a journalist, Hearst built the largest publishing conglomerate in the... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
International, a pioneer in microfinance investing. “I was completely taken with everything he said,” says Rodríguez of the origins of their friendship, which has evolved from mentor, to collaborator, to business partner. In 2007, the pair launched IGNIA, a venture... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
high-quality transactions to the United States to demonstrate the promise of this instrument,” Palandjian adds. “Social impact bonds have the potential to improve social outcomes at reduced taxpayer expense; shift performance risk away... View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public sector absorbed the risk. In the aftermath of the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2016
- News
Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats
Backed by $50 million in capital from three movie studios, startup Atom Tickets is planning a nationwide launch this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. Cofounded by Matthew Bakal (MBA 2004), Atom is entering a market as “first... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
was born in Taiwan, and my mother and I came to the States when I was just about five,” explains the 46-year-old Wu. “When we first arrived, my family really struggled. Living through that process, we were assisted by organizations that... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Lerner Honored for Research
entrepreneurs. Lerner received the 2010 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research and delivered a lecture at a ceremony in Stockholm in May. The awards committee, composed of Swedish academics, recognized Lerner for “pioneering research in venture View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
intervention? You further state that market capitalism “won the Cold War.” I find this statement insulting to those who overturned the Communist Eastern European governments. The workers at the Gdansk... View Details
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Insurance industry: companies and analysis
Where can I find information on the insurance industry? Best's Library Center: provides profiles of property, casualty, life and health insurance companies in the United States and Canada. View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
In a first-ever look at the internal economics driving private equity partnerships, Harvard Business School researchers have found that many of these funds can be torn apart by greed among founding partners who take home a much bigger share of profits than other senior... View Details
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Takeover Defenses
Where can I find information on public companies that have instituted takeover defenses such as poison pills? Capital IQ allows you to screen for companies with takeover defenses such as poison pills, anti-greenmail provision, blank check... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of four articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Explains Fields, “Especially since the recession, to be more competitive, we’ve looked beyond things like labor costs when deciding where to locate new business.” He believes that the United States can often claim competitive advantage in... View Details