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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
from one town, New Bedford. The reason actually has nothing to do with them having better ships or them having better anything. It's only because of their invention of a new financing mechanism, whereby merchants were able to take money from View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
with a number of methodologies and practices emerging from different organizations. The aim of this study was to deepen the understanding of the specific practices and methodologies that established impact investors are using to measure... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. Boston and San Francisco Global investment management firm Alan Greenshields (MBA 1992) Fortu Holding AG Basel, Switzerland Proprietary technologies for next-generation rechargeable batteries Michael... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best matches, automatically showing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a range of close-to-custom sizes.... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
took the Bank's helm, both the institution's image and the morale of its employees were poor. Critics contended that Bank projects often brought more harm than help to client-country populations and ecosystems and that the Bank was irrelevant and obstructionist in an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
see that there are a lot more female investors that are getting involved. But there’s a bottleneck for the exits that typically venture capitalists are looking for in terms of going public. Now you have a lot of these private companies... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
providing incentives and protecting proprietary information as needed—then leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning through entities such as GNS Healthcare and IBM’s Watson to find an answer. Clinical trials In the View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
economy of the '90s brought a golden age and aura to VC firms in the United States. In 1999, venture capitalists controlled more than $46 billion, with skyrocketing returns to match the risks of their early-stage investments. Europe,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
both saw an opportunity for a new kind of research geared toward the professional investors who were on the rise at mutual and pension funds. At the time, institutions accounted for less than 25 percent of equity ownership, but the way... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the economy evolve from a manufacturing base to one driven by services and information. The Information Age had... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
from the risk that they will live a long time. The funds that individuals contribute to a MIF are invested in a mutual fund. The proceeds from the fund's underlying assets are reinvested until the contributor dies or he turns an age... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
from five to ten years. We also look for a balance in ages and generations. We have partners here at Accel who are still active in their 60s, 50s, 40s, and 30s, as well as a couple of people in their late 20s. The balance between View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
venture capital finance. Using a theoretical model and rich data, we are able to both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence of investors who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
company to be more competitive because it is easier to source skilled people, access suppliers efficiently, and operate productively. In money management, for example, every road show comes to Boston because there is a cluster of major View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
many of the artists that Joyner and her husband, private equity investor Alfred Giuffrida, collect are enjoying increased visibility. Major museums in the United States (and beyond) are reevaluating the artists’ careers and influence... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
NY Club’s Senior Program makes the connection It’s been a little over five years since Len Polaner (MBA 1954) and a small committee of like-minded alumni in the HBS Club of New York launched the first Seniors Program, a series of social and educational activities... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
imposing costs on marginal ones. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52388 Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Working PapersGlobal Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper considers the risk management problem of an investor who holds a diversified portfolio of global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace