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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
the company was worth more than $400 million — yielding a return on its original investment of more than 70,000 percent. It was the young venture capital industry’s first home run, and it helped make the...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Research Is the Foundation
language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a...
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- 25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?
My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the enterprise in which I had...
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- 08 Jan 2016
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Investing in Sustainability
new—and increasingly popular—model for doing good and making money. As a venture capitalist nonprofit, Sustainable America is funding entrepreneurs who will make the food and fuel sectors more sustainable and anticipating returns that...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Scott P. Mason Remembered
financial regulatory environments, to issues such as the allocation of capital within the financial firm. Born in Presque Isle, Maine, Mason graduated from the University of Maine in 1969. He received an MS in finance at MIT in 1972 and...
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- 19 Sep 2016
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Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
wouldn’t learn anything if they didn’t study. The professor’s words stuck. Murphy returned to his room and labored over the next case. He received the next opening cold call, and the professor stayed with him for the entire 80-minute...
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- 12 Jul 2019
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The Power of Entrepreneurship
we make these investments is, yes, because we think you can have tremendous positive impact, but [also] because we think it's a huge business opportunity. And the potential for returns by doing that are huge. We've been able to prove...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
studies that there are many small-business owners who could put capital to very good use, but microfinance has not yet unlocked those potential opportunities. “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
After nearly two decades in senior marketing and new venture positions, Ajay Mookerjee (DBA ’88) has returned to HBS as executive director of the new India Research Center. “I’ve had a pent-up desire to get involved in academic work, and...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
requirements for the organization. These challenges are radically different from the venture’s early needs. With founders likely having ceded power in return for raising the capital needed to be successful,...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
sustainability, values alignment, and impact, creating a market that has grown almost 25 percent since 2014; it now represents $23 trillion in assets globally. “The potential to deploy capital to obtain financial View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
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In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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INK: Big News for Small Business
The earliest small business loan on record dates back to Mesopotamia, when a royal baker borrowed capital—suggesting that small-business owners have been wrestling with access to capital literally since the dawn of civilization, says...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Where Are They Now?
director of the Brady Commission, a task force created to examine ways to avoid another stock market crash like Black Monday on October 24. “It was hard not to say yes,” he recalls. After the commission completed its report, Glauber View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
exceed our targeted cash from operations.” This year, alumni will receive details of the School’s financial performance in an expanded, annual report format, which will offer a better sense of how HBS financial resources — including gifts from the ongoing $500 million...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Vital Signs
the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin HT: Venture capital is a lagging indicator,...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Strange Bedfellows
goal. Profits reported to tax authorities and to capital markets were essentially the same. Over time, well-considered exceptions — expensing of investments, for example — were introduced to advance policy goals such as stimulating...
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- 01 Oct 2021
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No Time Like the Present
and cofounder of Cleanacwa, a nonprofit that works on water and sanitation in his homeland. Consistent with his focus on helping Africa manage its challenges and capitalize on its strengths, Delle is also supporting HBS’s Global...
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- 03 Feb 2021
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Power Play
a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
principal and a rate of return with a portion of the savings. If the predefined social outcomes are not met, the government owes nothing. “What the social impact bond does is enable a social organization to raise View Details