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- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan Mistele, was looking to pivot into high growth and faced several intriguing options. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
received extraordinary support from its oversized Scientific Advisory Board; it had developed and secured a strong intellectual property portfolio that creates high barriers to entry for any new market entrants; and, it had $13 million of venture View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
what is happening currently in the US. As deficits mount, interest rates remain low in part because of a good credit rating relative to other countries, a strong currency, and the ready flow of capital into the country. Inflation is held... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
how those processes get institutionalized into a unique culture. Located in the Free State of Saxony in the eastern part of Germany (the former GDR), AMD's investment in the region leverages a historic and rather unique skill base in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
of one-off contributions, constant mentoring and co-authorship with younger colleagues, distillation of advice into accessible and memorable forms, and investment in an institutional legacy. Beyond these aspects, which I elaborated in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organizations and others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Hellman, and Ilkin IlyaszadeHarvard Business School Case 811-100 The case study provides an overview of the angel investment practices and describes government policies towards angel and venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
investments in customized test software developed for UNIX systems. Teradyne's top customers were not interested in sacrificing accuracy and scrapping already installed software for the cost benefits of CMOS chips and NT. Instead, they... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
advertising. It is well documented that brands that increase advertising during a recession, when competitors are cutting back, can improve market share and return on investment at lower cost than during good economic times. Uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
The Challenges of Launching a Start-Up in China: Dorm99.com (TN)
Teaching Note for 307075. View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
economic future, and in essence moderate the risk of investing in capitalistic ventures. “Forecasters found a ready audience during a time of social and economic turbulence” In his book Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
mailing address, their capital needs are minimal. People are intimately aware of the fact that too much structure will disenfranchise the very people who make the most successful open source projects possible. —Siobhán O'Mahony Second is... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, increased investment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
partners investing at the same VC firm at the same time. Furthermore, our estimates suggest the partner's human capital is two to five times more important than the VC firm's organizational View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808112 SKS Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 208-137 Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
on reported cash flows. Those analysts who took WorldCom's reported income as proof that it was doing well would have come closer to the truth if they had simply calculated free cash flows. Then they would have seen the capital... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman