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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
hardly any learning curve,” he says, still sounding surprised. “It was a good fit.” The investment business changed during his tenure at Lehman, and in 1976 he left and moved to Boston to launch Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
in the answers organizations are giving. Funding continues to evolve, with the rise of venture philanthropy, shifts in the availability of government funds, and many other currents flowing. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
that exists at the top of organizational hierarchies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49601 forthcoming Management Science Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We provide a model of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
Education Network, the Gates Foundation, New Schools Venture Fund, and the Harlem Children's Zone have in common? Our HBS friends work there. The education sector needs talent and expertise from a variety of different fields with a... View Details
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
so far, but focused on ‘financing reduced emissions.’” Girish Nadkarni, recently retired CEO of Total Energy Ventures and senior advisor to OGCI Climate Investments, called for corporations to increase their climate change activities. He... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
federal help.” A significant number of survey-takers said they would not apply for government loans because they anticipated problems with accessing the funds due to red tape and distrust in the government to forgive the loans. “The low... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
sustainability issues, institutional and socially responsible investment fund ownership, and coverage from analysts with less firm-specific experience and lower portfolio complexity. Moreover, we find intra-industry information transfers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
turmoil. The case explores the risks and benefits of a different asset allocation strategy and also considers how to classify some of the different assets. It highlights the issues around allocations across different subclasses, e.g., between View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
no way out of the conundrum—that established companies simply lack the flexibility to explore new territory. Some have suggested that big companies adopt a venture capital model, funding exploratory... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Hatches Harvard Business School Case 809-072 Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether to make new investments. Not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
the patent process you document affected entrepreneurial finance? A: Young, innovative firms are hurt in two ways by a poorly-operating patent system. First, as patents become easier to get, their value for the truly innovative firms—such as those backed by View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement
massive volumes are needed to protect the seven billion patients around the world. Without the scale to protect the global population, viruses like COVID will continue to mutate and impact all of our lives. Much of Vaxess’s work to date has been View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
impact investment venture capital fund in India, and a year in Denmark as a Fulbright Research Fellow studying social return on investment methodologies. Mendu says being chosen as an HBS Leadership Fellow... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
construct," "build operate transfer," and other forms of public-private partnership. The handling of municipal solid waste takes up to 50% of the annual budget of many urban areas in the developing world. The ability to use private sector View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
their funds on demand even if consumption takes place later. Capitalized institutions serving overoptimistic depositors emerge in equilibrium even if depositors and bank owners have identical preferences and investment opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
concluded that "governments should fund education in math and science ... Markets will take care of entrepreneurial innovation." Jay Somasundaram asked whether we are even asking the right question. In his words, "The... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
markets froze. To make matters worse, PIC cancelled the joint venture with Dow in December 2008. As a result, Dow was hurt on three fronts: first, it lost an important funding source for the proposed... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
different lens—it focuses instead on the perspective of a middle-to-upper-level manager contemplating a potential assignment to lead an internal venture in a large company. Befitting this series, we build lists of important considerations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne