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- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
(MBA 1990), Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), and John Rice (MBA 1992) Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: In 1998, Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976) cofounded StarVest Partners, one of the largest women-owned View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
partnerships, however, science with commercial applications began thriving outside corporate R&D silos. And the availability of venture capital for technology start–ups made it harder to keep scientists with... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
1995, and continuing over the next few years, they launched a research project to simplify Internet search, a process that was then far from easy. Outsiders do well in the US when venture capitalists and angel investors don’t... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
partner of Gobi Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in China, must decide how to manage his firm's largest investment after the departure of the CEO. Tom has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
customers' college-savings accounts. Firms like Salomon Smith Barney that manage these new so-called "529" savings plans would invest the rebates and maintain records showing enrolled families how much they had earned toward... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
reflected in stock prices. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43177 Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals Authors:Lyle, Matthew, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract We provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
to challenge the leadership of large companies, and ballot initiatives were rare. Today, firms like RiskMetrics and Glass Lewis evaluate everything from executive compensation to minutiae in corporate... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
theoretical and practical implications of our research. Publisher's link: http://francescagino.com/#/motivation_research August 2013 Journal of Economics and Management Strategy Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
scheduling their time, the more bang they'll get for their buck. Making Edtech Profitable Investment in education technology has increased dramatically over the past decade, with venture capital View Details
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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion Course Number 1412 Professor Lauren Cohen Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 sessions Project “Investment firms of the ultra-wealthy spend as much as 72% of their... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Chu, Joe Lassiter, and Mike Roberts. Initially, Sahlman recalls, there was some resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner's Venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
anything having to do with globalization. But in 2006, some new areas of HBS faculty research began to emerge that also struck a chord with readers. These included the business of open source, how network effects impact everything from View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
history? American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights;... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
manufacturer learned after it entered a joint venture with a Chinese company and hired a local manager to run the Chinese operation. As described in Charles Olivier's 1996 WorldLink article, "Investing in China: 12 Hard... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
Aneel Bhusri, general partner at the venture capital firm Greylock. "Customers are quietly starting to use this technology, and they're driving significant cost... View Details
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
from (HBS professor emeritus) Tom McCraw's Creating Modern Capitalism book, wherein Henry Royce is talking about a decision whether to merge Rolls-Royce with Vickers, but "was determined to keep the View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, and then to private equity, asset allocation, and now, to leading operations. Ma recently was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Index Ventures, a 25-year-old international venture View Details