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- February 1997
- Case
Advent of Venture Capital in Latin America, The
By: Debora L. Spar
Widely regarded as the leader in international private equity, Advent International is considering the establishment of a private equity fund in Latin America in 1996. Typically, Advent entered new private equity markets through the creation of multicountry regional... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Joint Ventures; Market Entry and Exit; Globalized Markets and Industries; Financial Services Industry; Boston; Latin America
Spar, Debora L., and Elizabeth B. Stein. "Advent of Venture Capital in Latin America, The." Harvard Business School Case 797-077, February 1997.
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
arrangement under which it charged a royalty for equipment usage, as I mentioned in an earlier column "Can You Hard-Wire Performance?" in this series. The model is so attractive that a number of "industrial" firms are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Faculty - Private Capital Project
Finance at the Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago where he created a new course entitled 'Entrepreneurial Finance and Management.' His course development efforts at Harvard Business School focuses on issues affecting entrepreneurial View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
businesses over the long run: companies such as Tata Group, founded in India in 1868, or Mexican bakery Grupo Bimbo, started in 1945. What sets these firms apart? What can leaders in developed markets learn from them? In the recent... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
they eschew efforts—even bold, cutting-edge proposals—that are unlikely to generate value for customers, employees, or suppliers. “Companies that raise customer willingness to pay in a distinctive manner attract the very customers that find the firm’s products and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
Putten report, based on extensive data, that they have found a correlation between executive pay and long-term total returns to shareholders. But CEO pay increased substantially even in low-performing firms in their study. Their book... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- January 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
iZumi
By: Robert F. Higgins, Jacob Ian Broder-Fingert, Eliot Sherman and Sidhartha Palani
Presents the issues faced while building an innovative company in an emerging space with new intellectual property from the perspective of a venture capitalist. Beth Seidenberg, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), had helped... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
Which is why we have committed to you that no one at Aon is going to lose their job because of this COVID-19 outbreak.” Alternatives to salary cuts In addition to salary cuts, firms announced other initiatives to reduce payroll expenses... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
were Rock Venture Partners. A colleague at Google had even explored a startup idea at the i-Lab. The more I investigated the resources at HBS, the more I knew an MBA there was the perfect fit for me. I also saw my time at HBS as an opportunity for personal and View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
the writing of popular film scripts like The Matrix or Star Wars. Character behaviors, actions, and motivations hook the interest of readers at all levels, regardless of their professional experience with IT, while the plot sets up a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
Specialisterne, a Danish software firm with 75 percent of its workforce diagnosed with ASD. Ferose, like the founder of Specialisterne, has a son diagnosed with ASD. Specialisterne is what Austin calls the “gold standard” of... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
expert who has studied advertising for forty years, believes the future of Internet advertising depends on improvements in technology. "We won't really understand the full potential of Internet advertising until broadband service... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- Web
Dillon House | About
investment bank. Dillon joined the Wall Street bond brokerage firm William A. Read & Company in 1912. Following William Read’s death in 1916, Dillon bought a majority interest in the firm; the company’s name was changed to Dillon, Read &... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
the following century. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
short-termism is associated with various proxies for earnings management, suggesting that our proxy partially captures opportunistic behavior. We also show that firms focusing more on the short-term have a more short-term oriented... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
economy as a whole. Micro is about firms and individual actors and how they behave; macro is about aggregate performance of the economy: overall GDP, trade surplus or deficit, inflation. In principle, we should be able to get rid of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
records relating to the nineteenth-century China trade, present a look into momentous events concerning Sino-Western relations as well as the day-to-day activities of American traders in the treaty ports. Within the 800 volumes, 272 boxes, and 103 cartons survive both... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an online pawnshop that... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy firms. In 2009, the top 20 firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne