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05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

were not realized. Four years later, another company working on the same technology went public to great acclaim and fanfare. The firm? Netscape Communications, under the leadership of Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. 2 Because its new... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

government-owned or privately held companies than men. Female executives are on average better-educated than male executives, the one variable that noticeably widened the gender gap after controlling for the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2001
News

Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan

but some young entrepreneurs are picking up on it — Nasdaq Japan listed forty companies last year. With only 10 percent of private investors participating in the securities market, Saeki sees enormous room... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

Fast Answer

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

Resources Company Analysis and Financing Company profiles on project sponsors Financial fundamentals for valuation Executive bios Size of organization, i.e., number of employees, revenue View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 1997
News

Jennifer L. Scott

under the auspices of Harvard's Institute for International Development. After returning from Kenya she joined Bain & Company and later signed on with a startup, founded by Bain colleagues, focused on View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2011
News

Tax and Grow

prod corporations to put some of their remarkable cash hoards to productive use. Estimates of the cash held by U.S. public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

25 Jun 2018
Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

Aaron Scheinfeld, MBA 2019, did not launch a formal search for his summer internship. Yet he found an opportunity he is excited about, largely by pursuing the interests that come naturally to him. After two years with Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division and... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

Web

Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

longer between standalone products or services, but between platforms. Many of the most successful companies are those who build multisided platforms (MSPs), which spawn large ecosystems of users and suppliers of complementary products... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2007
News

A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

the company puts a premium on new product development and innovation, while providing help and hope to people of all ages with disabilities. Mal Mixon takes his guest on a tour of the product showroom on the first floor of the Elyria,... View Details

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Use of Electronic Resources | Baker Library

Use of Electronic Resources Baker Library negotiates access to electronic resources for members of the Harvard or Harvard Business School communities, and, in some cases, to visiting researchers, for the purposes of research, teaching, and View Details

11 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit

entrepreneurial spirit. After graduation, I entered strategy consulting to learn how companies run – from developing pricing strategies to winning customers – then joined a middle-market private equity firm,... View Details

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EMIS (Emerging Markets Information System) | Baker Library

EMIS (Emerging Markets Information System) Country and company information on Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. Read More Includes country profiles; macroeconomic statistics, forecasts, and analysis; reports on... View Details

Portrait Project

Lyn Baranowski

ultimately achieving global peace and prosperity. I will be a corporate champion in the public and private sectors and will help companies build relationships across borders for two reasons. First, I believe... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 1997
News

Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

initial venture fund of $60 million (at that point the largest private equity fund ever raised), the new firm began doing deals in a wide range of enterprises. But in the early 1980s, as the VC business became more and more competitive,... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

of the proceeds of corruption — it's too profitable. For all its virtues, the FCPA is a case in point: It prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials but doesn't deter private banks from wooing... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

01 Jun 2000
News

A Canadian Hero

list of the most successful business leaders this country has ever produced," according to the Toronto Globe and Mail, is president and CEO of ONEX, a thriving public company he founded sixteen years ago. A diversified global firm... View Details

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