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- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
entrepreneurial environments. (The last factor in turn will be a function of tax policy, legal protections, and societal preferences.) However painful the short-run adjustments, these more fundamental factors are likely to be critical in... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
loyalty, tradition and internal maintenance, are the monkeys. Organizations frequently show aspects of different cultures, making for dragons. Competitive and entrepreneurial firms consistently perform... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
In this video, Ousseynou Nakoulima (MBA 2009), director of the Green Climate Fund, discusses why his organization employs a holistic strategy to its work in developing countries. “The Green Climate Fund is a fund that has been set up by the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
professor Bill Sahlman recalls that there were only 4 faculty members devoted to entrepreneurship when he introduced the elective Entrepreneurial Finance in 1985. “Now we have 35. The View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 29 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
3 Insights from My First Year at HBS
ripe and unripened version that I will be testing in South Africa. A Rock Summer Fellowship from HBS provided me with funding so I could pursue this venture. I have already been applying what I have learned from marketing, finance and... View Details
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Michael Danzi | Baker Library
HBS to study. After graduation Mike went to work in financial services, but soon realized he wanted to launch and run businesses rather than only finance them. He joined a small machinery company to learn about operations and management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Dinner Celebrates Professorships
remarks on the importance of faculty mentors and being part of an extraordinary community dedicated to excellence in teaching and research. Photo: Thomas J. Fitzsimmons David B. Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of classmates with prior entrepreneurial experience. We find that the presence of entrepreneurial peers strongly predicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
their careers. “For us, the answer was partly ‘let’s build something that’s different than what you see out there, and let’s build a firm that can succeed.’ So, that’s what we’ve done with Avance,” says Perez, the firm’s managing partner. View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
Kemp took a leadership role in helping to communicate the needs and concerns of international students to the HBS community, make the student elections process more efficient, and increase the availability of on-campus housing for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
Corruption, Poverty, and Global Finance Thank you for your excellent article about global poverty in the March Bulletin. I’m delighted to see these issues getting more attention. This year marks the 45th year of my involvement in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
success or disaster. “When I sit on a board, I think of it as mentoring,” says Chia, EVP of Walden International Investment Group in Hong Kong. “I don’t think of myself as a venture capitalist but as somebody providing venture assistance,... View Details
- April 1998 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Bahtulism, Collapse, Resurrection? Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998
By: Huw Pill and Donald H. Mathis
Describes, in detail, events precipitating crises. Provides both conventional and new explanations of crises. Presents a chronology of crises as the events unfold, and a brief summary of four particular countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand) and their... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; International Finance; Development Economics; Thailand; Malaysia; South Korea; Indonesia
Pill, Huw, and Donald H. Mathis. "Bahtulism, Collapse, Resurrection? Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998." Harvard Business School Case 798-089, April 1998. (Revised January 2005.)
- August 1995 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
Futures on the Mexican Peso
By: Kenneth A. Froot, Matthew McBrady and Mark Seasholes
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange needs to decide how to design, and whether and when to introduce, a futures contract on the Mexican peso. View Details
Keywords: Exchange Rates; Money Markets; Futures Market; Country Analysis; International Finance; Financial Markets; Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Mexico
Froot, Kenneth A., Matthew McBrady, and Mark Seasholes. "Futures on the Mexican Peso." Harvard Business School Case 296-004, August 1995. (Revised October 1996.)
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Managing and Innovating in Financial Services Course Number 1509 Professor David Scharfstein Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Course Content Financial services firms play a critically important role in the global economy. They View Details
- September 2019
- Article
The Dollar, Bank Leverage and Deviations from Covered Interest Parity
By: Stefan Advjiev, Wenxin Du, Catherine Koch and Hyun Song Shin
We document a triangular relationship in that a stronger dollar goes hand in hand with larger deviations from covered interest parity (CIP) and contractions of cross-border bank lending in dollars. We argue that underpinning the triangle is the role of the dollar as a... View Details
Advjiev, Stefan, Wenxin Du, Catherine Koch, and Hyun Song Shin. "The Dollar, Bank Leverage and Deviations from Covered Interest Parity." American Economic Review: Insights 1, no. 2 (September 2019): 193–208.
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
approach when considering SOX," explains Srinivasan. The most worrisome part of the act on the business side was the mandate that required public companies to obtain an independent audit of their internal control practices. The cost... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
to the global automobile industry. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms are emerging as international players. There are also opportunities in infrastructure investment, such as telecom, ports, roads, and airports. Please comment on... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
un‐cited or self-cited, suggesting that incumbents are more likely to engage in incremental innovation compared to VC-backed startups. Third, we document a rising share of patenting by startups that coincided with the surge in venture capital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne