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  • 21 Sep 2010
  • News

Investing in Experience

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • January 2024
  • Article

Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Bo Li and Ernest Liu
We study the demand for government participation in China’s venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both capital investors... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Business and Government Relations; Entrepreneurship; China
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  • 2005
  • Other Unpublished Work

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Role of Experience and Specialization

By: P. Gompers, Anna R. Kovner, Josh Lerner and David S. Scharfstein
Keywords: Venture Capital
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  • spring 1978
  • Article

Foreign Investment from the Third World: The Experience of Chinese Firms from Hong Kong

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Global Range; Learning; Hong Kong
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  • TeachingInterests

Investing for Impact

By: Archie L. Jones

The Field Course: Investing for Impact was born out of the efforts of HBS students and faculty in the spring of 2020 and offered for the first time in fall semester of 2021.

This course seeks to help students understand why certain... View Details

  • September 2022
  • Article

Find and Replace: R&D Investment Following the Erosion of Existing Products

By: Joshua L. Krieger, Xuelin Li and Richard T. Thakor
How do innovative firms react when existing products experience negative shocks? We explore this question with detailed project-level data from drug development firms. Using FDA Public Health Advisories as idiosyncratic negative shocks to approved drugs, we first... View Details
Keywords: R＆D Investments; Drug Development; Product Shocks; M＆A; Biopharmaceutical Industry; FDA; System Shocks; Research and Development; Investment; Decision Making; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Public Debt and Investment Under Political Competition: Evidence from Toxic Loans

By: Julien Sauvagnat and Boris Vallée
We examine how political considerations shape local government responses to a substantial rise in indebtedness. We use the delayed yet sharp deterioration of “toxic” loans held by French municipalities as a quasi-natural experiment to empirically investigate such... View Details
Keywords: Public Debt; Public Investments; Political Contestation; Toxic Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Investment; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Local Range; Financing and Loans
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  • Program

Investment Management Workshop

risk managers, portfolio managers, investment advisors, wealth managers, and principals Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive View Details
  • 05 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience

authors Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton draw on years of quantitative and qualitative research to explain how we can turn cash into contentment. The key lies in adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • September 2017
  • Article

The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Firm-Level Evidence from a Policy Experiment

By: Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari and Fabio Kanczuk
Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Theory suggests that the imposition of capital controls can drive up the cost of capital and curb... View Details
Keywords: Capital Controls; Discriminatory Taxation; International Investment Barriers; Exports; Debt; Cost of Capital; Taxation; Investment; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Brazil
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  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

Second, the emphasis on local laws as being all-important may be misplaced given the large role of foreign investment in emerging economies and the ability of these investors to avail themselves of nonlocal laws. The web of bilateral... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • February 2024
  • Case

Nuwa Capital: Investing During Uncertainty

By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Nuwa Capital (Nuwa) was a venture capital firm based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. The business was founded in 2020 by Khaled Talhouni and his partners Sarah Abu Risheh, and Stephanie Nour Prince (they were later joined by Nitin Reen... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Decisions; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Bahrain
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MBA Experience - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics As part of the MBA curriculum, students analyze many cases focused on health care, and can customize their second-year experience by choosing courses, projects, papers, and... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker
  • September 2020 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience

By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., had developed an entirely new “mixed play” product experience that blended familiar Hot Wheels play in the physical world with breakthrough play in... View Details
Keywords: Toys; Go-to-market Strategy; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Decision Making; Marketing; Strategy; Los Angeles
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  • 11 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options

computer architecture department, and I had enjoyed technical internships at Sandia National Laboratories and Apple. But something didn’t feel right. I had always been fascinated by the nexus of business, technology, and policy – but to this point my educational and... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

challenges to raising capital, being empowered to make investment decisions, and accessing the mentorship and resources to promote our talent.” Each of the Co-Presidents brings unique experiences to the... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund
  • 29 Oct 2015
  • News

How to Design (and Analyze) a Business Experiment

  • Research Summary

Managing International Trade and Investment

By: Debora L. Spar
Introduced by Debora Spar in 1995, Managing International Trade and Investment is an elective course that prepares students to deal with the distinct set of management challenges that face cross-border businesses. Building on experience that suggests that what works... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to beat the market in a big way.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services