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- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
Nairobi." In 2010, Keshavjee was one of four representatives from Kenya to be invited by Barack Obama to Washington for the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, "to deepen ties between business leaders, foundations, and social entrepreneurs in the United View Details
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Supplement
Enman Oil, Inc. (D)
By: David F. Hawkins
Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Enman Oil, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-045, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Supplement
Enman Oil, Inc. (B)
By: David F. Hawkins
Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Enman Oil, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-043, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies, from Latin America's grupos to India's business houses and Japan's keiretsu, helping to form the world's economies. For HBS associate... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 15 Jul 2025
- Blog Post
Outrage at the Death of a Tree
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, reflects on creativity, innovation, and inclusive economic systems. You can subscribe to his Substack newsletter here: https://tarunkhanna.substack.com/ During a recent family visit to St Louis... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
measures to prevent some unintended consequences. A large fraction of corporations’ excess cash — as much as two-thirds, according to some estimates — is held outside the United States to avoid the “repatriation taxes” that occur under... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
capitalize on its innovation: strengthening antitrust and intellectual property rights enforcement; improving the legal infrastructure (e.g., producing more corporate lawyers); lowering barriers to entry for foreign investment; and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- December 2019
- Case
WeWork Files for an IPO
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
For the board of The We Company—better known as WeWork—August 14, 2019, promised to be a pivotal day. It was then that WeWork’s IPO prospectus, known as an S-1 filing, would be made public, giving potential investors, the media, and the general public a window into the... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Leadership; Management; Private Equity; Valuation; Venture Capital; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "WeWork Files for an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 320-063, December 2019.
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts of the global economy. For HBS... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
problem that hits hardest at people with the least capital and it’s a real social justice concern in the case of possible sea level rise. Migration Migration manifests in many ways. Florida is one of the fastest-growing View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- January 2014 (Revised December 2024)
- Case
MuMaté: Funding Growth
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
Motivates values-based capitalism and drives companies to contribute to solving social and environmental problems while also providing employees stimulating and satisfying work. Restores trust by committing to government as an instrument... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Kira Epler
For Kira Epler, attending HBS meant a dramatic shift in scale. "My graduating class of chemistry majors was smaller than a HBS section," she says. The fourth generation in her family to graduate from Kansas State University,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
In recent years, government and business leaders throughout the world have made governance issues a prime focus, as capital markets have increased their scrutiny of countries' and companies' corporate-governance structures, policies, and... View Details
Angle of Insight
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (EGC), because I think that to understand where we are going, we have to consider where we have come from. EGC gives such a great historical perspective on the United 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
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States and its neighbor to the south. Mexico makes a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- January 2013
- Case
Arthur Rock
By: Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas and Liz Kind
Arthur Rock was known as one of the country's first venture capitalists and was instrumental in launching major Silicon Valley firms, such as Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel Corporation, Apple Computer, Inc., Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne Incorporated. He was the... View Details
Hardymon, Felda, Tom Nicholas, and Liz Kind. "Arthur Rock." Harvard Business School Case 813-138, January 2013.
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
closed down flows of trade and capital across borders. Yet firms were rarely able to wholly dictate events. Their ability to transfer technology was constrained by the institutional, educational, and cultural conditions of host economies.... View Details
- July 1999
- Article
The Government as Venture Capitalist: The Long-Run Effects of the SBIR Program
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "The Government as Venture Capitalist: The Long-Run Effects of the SBIR Program." Journal of Business 72 (July 1999): 285–318.