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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
female subjects as the protagonists, I could identify with this immediately. It was a project I could readily support.” So could Bethell, a managing director and founding member of Bain Capital in London, who made a gift to the fund in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Edrienne Brandon
showing them how I found mine. I will soften the inequities of capitalism within my sphere of influence. I will step deliberately, act purposefully, fail iteratively, live loudly, and think twice – every day. In the end, I hope to look... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alex Rogers
are difficult but simple. I want to build the best venture capital firm in Europe; I want to look back 10 years from now and point to companies that I helped build that employ thousands of people; I want to make as much money for my... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
analysts) downward-adjusted ratings more often than aligned analysts covering the same firm at the same time, the study shows. The partisan leanings of intermediaries, such as credit-rating analysts, can have “sizable effects on firms’ cost of View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
can’t access capital as easily as public ones, though that business reality accounted for only one-quarter of the difference in cash holdings. The remainder of the difference was due to attempts to time the stock market: Public-firm... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of... View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- News
The 'LinkedIn for the Military' Commemorates Its One-Year Anniversary By Raising $5 Million
Keywords: military
- December 2009 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Lyondell Chemical Company
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest internationally diversified chemical companies headquartered in The Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Crisis Management; Chemical Industry; Netherlands; United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Lyondell Chemical Company." Harvard Business School Case 210-001, December 2009. (Revised April 2022.)
- February 1999 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
Securicor Wireless Networks: February 1996
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Bill Wasik
Securicor Wireless (SWN) sold software products to wireless telephone carriers. The company was incorporated in January of 1995 as a 40%-owned subsidiary of Securicor Telesciences (STI), itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of British security giant Securicor PLC. Just... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Subsidiaries; Nationality; Business Conglomerates; Applications and Software; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Business Startups; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Bill Wasik. "Securicor Wireless Networks: February 1996." Harvard Business School Case 899-134, February 1999. (Revised November 1999.)
- Profile
Jon Schechter
amazed that no matter the subject,” Jon says, “we can articulate arguments from many sides and imagine many paths forward. There may be no perfect answer, but a thoughtful examination gives you confidence to move one way or another.” For the summer, Jon is working with... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
underscored the risk and uncertainty inherent to capitalism itself. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you decide to write this book? Walter Friedman: The idea came to me years ago when teaching "Creating Modern Capitalism," a short course that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
U.S. By the 1960s, American brands had benefited from so much cumulative investment in marketing that they were unquestionably the strongest brands in the world. There were three reasons why marketing developed in the United States ahead... View Details
- February 2011
- Teaching Note
Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance (TN)
Teaching Note for 308032. View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
at the number of times investors accessed environmental and social data on Bloomberg terminals and ranked countries based on the number of "hits," accounting for the size of each country's capital market. We also developed a call to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
professor James Cash; and Ann Fudge (MBA '77), honorary 2001 conference chair. In addition, a preconference program, "Venture Capital and Private Equity Summit 2001: Building New Networks," will be held on October 5. For more information,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
ownership influence Chapter 11 outcomes? To answer these questions, we construct a data set that identifies the entire capital structure for 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection between 1998 and 2009 and that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Business Environment in the 21st century
we ought to aspire to make a very significant contribution. We’ve had a major impact in the past. We can do it again.” Related Links Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble? View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
everywhere they perform, with filters to explore genres, ensembles, studios, or professionals and the places they teach. The site is currently focused on San Francisco and Los Angeles, thanks to early funding from friends and family, but Liang is eyeing expansion in... View Details
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Jenny Tison
and fell in love with it,” Jenny says. “In my second and third years, I collected as much ice time as I could.” The hard work paid off: By the end of her senior season, she was the assistant captain of the Washington Little Capitals... View Details