Public Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

Mickey Konson

Fintech Entrepreneur: 25 years global experience, ranging from fintech founder raising $100MM in public and private equity, to bank senior executive running $2BN P&L. Passionate about technology-enabled delivery of financial services to... View Details

Keywords: Finance;#64;#Software/App

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

in a unified European market with the introduction of the Euro. This new landscape offers new business opportunities and possibilities to write cases that show very multicultural environments fairly unique to Europe. Parallel to that... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

manufacturing operations, new product development, advertising and marketing strategies, and year-end financial statements. The Dewey Library, MIT Libraries and the Thomas J. Watson Library of Business Economics, Columbia University... View Details

01 Jan 2008
News

Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

that has redefined commerce. Since stepping down from eBay last spring, Whitman’s focus now lies in the public and social sectors. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, the two-year-old private company had thirty employees and $4.7... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Understanding the Digital Frontier

public response from your CEO has the potential to limit the damage or even change the momentum in your favor, the authors write. The book provides practical tools and assessments to help readers understand this digital frontier. And the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management

June 2018
Supplement

Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (C)

By: Marco Di Maggio, Benjamin C. Esty and Gregory Saldutte

Analyzes Snap’s value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the (B) case. View Details

Citation

Purchase

21 Oct 2013
News

Moving the Needle

investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the potential existed to sell the company soon for a substantial return to one of its competitors. However, if the market turned in a big way, the potential valuation could come screaming down. The business would not fail, as it was... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “The contents of a catalogue . . . must tell their story in about the same way as the well-posted salesman would orally present the advantages of the goods.” Fowlers View Details

Ralph A. Hart

Hart was instrumental in taking the newly public company, Heublein, to new heights. He grew revenues five-fold (from $100 million to $500 million) and dramatically expanded Heublein’s international footprint with production facilities in... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Publication: Journal of Public Policy and Marketing 27, no. 2 (fall 2008): 202-206 Abstract The authors propose a political theory perspective for examining the impact of the modern aggregate View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Fast Answer

Sustainability in VCPE & Investing

investment with a focus on the benefits of sustainable investment, best practices, and lessons for the future. Private Equity for the Public Interest: The Evolution of ESG and Considerations for Asset Managers and Investors Article... View Details

2010
Case

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

Citation

Under Lincoln’s leadership, Metropolitan became an ardent supporter and provider of public health education while his company achieved record levels of profitability. For many years, the company promoted health and safety through... View Details

Keywords: Finance

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

"some 12 to 15 percent of GDP in Europe was public sector enterprise," he said. But all that began to change in the early 1980s amid loud cries of inefficiency, as markets opened up and governments... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

profit motive is needed. One argument for ending monopolies and opening the market for private services is that this might lead to more rapid technology introduction and innovation. You don’t have to look very far to find examples of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2010
News

Alumni Books

market capitalization. The book examines how misguided investment and acquisition strategies have created the paradox that, in media, the faster revenues grow, the worse their stocks perform. The Elements of Investing by Burton G. Malkiel... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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HBS Alumni Research Tips: Industry Research | Baker Library

Help Center HBS Alumni Research Tips: Industry Research Tips for using HBS alumni resources to research an industry Industry Reports and Market Data: ABI/ProQuest Contains in-depth research reports from First Research, Fitch Solutions,... View Details

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

mundane topics that were candidates for this month's column. Clearly, an inability to identify and evaluate risk has led to an inability to value assets. What follows is the failure of "fair value accounting" and markets themselves.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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