Public Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

2010
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Vander Mining Partners, IPADE

By: Roberto Charvel

In 2010 Vander Mining was trying to raise one of the few private equity funds specialized in mining. This was difficult among other things because institutional investors did not have a private equity team specialized in mining and emerging markets. View Details

Keywords: Real Assets; Business Startups; Business Plan; Economics; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Assets; Private Equity; Public Equity; Goods and Commodities; Emerging Markets; Market Participation; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America

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August 26, 2009
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Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

By: John A. Quelch

Today, let us celebrate the end of an unjustifiable drain on the U.S. taxpayer: the Cash for Clunkers (C4C) program.

True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they... View Details

Keywords: Government Programs; Environmental Impact; Government Waste; Customer Behavior; Economic Growth; Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Leadership; Marketing; Programs; Value; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

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29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

transparency, and by increasing liquidity by establishing a set of pricing processes that involve the private market as well as whatever this public entity is. "How is this exactly going to work? Nobody... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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 Capital... View Details

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

along with companies like Apple, Facebook, and Progressive Insurance, is a leading example of firms that are thinking about customers in a new way—much like how a museum curator orchestrates the experience of patrons. Weaver, an assistant professor in the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2015
News

Cracking Conferences

Margaret Molloy (MBA 2000) came to New York in 1994 for a marketing internship with Enterprise Ireland, a government agency promoting the country’s products in the United States. She had $200 in her pocket and no family connections on the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services

01 Sep 2014
News

Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?

No wonder the economy is slow to recover. At the end of 2013, industrial firms listed on the US stock markets held an astounding $1.6 trillion in cash reserves—that’s 12 percent more than a year earlier. And those were just the View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

19 Mar 2014
News

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

Keywords: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

sales of publications by market participants, and fees. (Its 2019 budget of $63 million seems meager in relation to its influence.) As an independent agency with a singular focus, the SEC is accountable for... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

make companies more efficient when public markets are largely flat, they said. According to Nikos Stathopoulos (HBS MBA '95), a partner in Apax Partners, which was founded thirty years ago, "If you look... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

seeing its real importance. It didn't help that economists also thought that selling was unimportant in influencing markets and that door-to-door selling declined in the United States in the final decades of the 20th century. But scholars... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

intangible resources may be best acquired by following a road of conformity in how your company is organized and presented to the outside world. In start-ups in established industries, conventional business titles such as Marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

26 Jul 2011
News

An Exercise in Creativity

Keywords: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services

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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

the photographic and archival materials available, the Baker Old Class Collection is a valuable print based resource for researching the development of marketing and advertising in the interwar period. The collection mainly includes but... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity

achieved through both the private and public sectors,” says Kyarisiima. “Enabling African businesses to access global markets and think strategically is where I want to play a role.” The path she took to... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

11 May 2016
News

World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

trading platforms have been launched, institutions participating in the market have been strengthened, and there is greater public awareness of the critical role capital View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

New Magazine Makes Its Mark

successful to date has been the effort to sign up public libraries, with roughly 20 percent of the nation’s 9,000 libraries carrying Bookmarks. Still on the horizon is the tantalizing prospect of marketing... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Bookmarks; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2006
News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

content that hopefully powers the marketing of companies. But is that advertising? A lot of the work we do for our clients involves media not on a rate card or in a typical distribution unit. Is producing the telephone “hold” music for... View Details