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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries. The instrumented elasticity of export View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
leverage technology to coordinate a fleet of distributed assets and stabilize the grid as intermittent renewables continue to come down in cost. That feat, to change the way our world is powered, is undoubtedly a tech venture.” Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) Founder, Fueled...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
deliver goods ordered over the Internet. In addition, there are important equity issues in America. The poor tend to live in neighborhoods that have the fewest transportation options, and they're the people who can go digital less than...
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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
Lazzarini Abstract In this paper we document the extent and reach of state capitalism around the world and explore its economic implications. We focus on governmental provision of capital to corporations-either equity or debt-as a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
correlations of equity cash flow news or stock market volatility shocks. Our findings imply that the benefits of global equity diversification have not declined for long horizon investors despite the secular...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
with these companies in a variety of roles, including those of founders, shareholders, or managers of their own family's firm, as well as those of non-family managers and employees, investors or business partners (e.g., private equity...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
members questioned the logic of additional investment in the region whose resources were so uncertain and wondered whether it was more prudent to pursue growth elsewhere. At the same time, some of Woolf's owners began to believe that more...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Investment Management in Boston, told a Senate committee on March 4 that regulators need look no further than five factors historically associated with financial crises: inflated prices of real estate, institutions with high levels of leverage, new products falling...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
firms? The success and viability of China's overall growth strategy depended crucially on managing a successful urban transition. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/713037-PDF-ENG Hill Country Snack Foods Co. W. Carl Kester and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
516-013 Vita: Cosmetics in the Nordics Vita is a Norwegian cosmetics retailer owned by FSN Capital, a Scandinavian private equity company. The company has a strong market position in Norway. The case focuses on two strategic issues: how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products of the post-Mao urban...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
nongaming business sectors became increasingly profitable both at the MGM Grand and in Las Vegas generally, understanding the nongaming customers appeared to be of critical importance to the continuing growth of the resort. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
owned by a group of private equity firms, and their pessimistic view of the industry influenced their strategies and investment decisions. AMC's management team had yet a different view on the prospects of the industry. Thus three present...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
committed to the idea of developing new understanding, deeper knowledge, and intellectual capital about business around the world," he stated. Along with increased support for global research, another visible manifestation of that commitment has been the recent View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
examine the impact of multinationals, the growth of business groups, and the conflicing relations between business and government. Specifically, this book provides a new historical perspective on current economic and political crises in...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
billion or $2 billion back in the early 1980s—“kind of a rounding error,” Sahlman observes—whereas today, it’s a hundred times as big, with additional trillions of dollars sloshing around in private equity and other pools of funds....
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
resulting co-creation of ecological damage by firms and governments. In the new global economy since 1980, renewed economic growth and consumerism resulted in mountains of waste in increasingly polluted mega-cities. Biodiversity and the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
works with several metropolitan areas, including Boston, Hartford, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and St. Louis - and a $130 million private equity fund to make capital available to inner-city companies. Each year, the initiative partners with...
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