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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
So, for example, creating incentives for industries to move into designated areas rather than, as he would say, ‘spreading like a rash.’ He brought meaning to the process.” “You find that people with two different viewpoints begin to...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Big Business of Little Loans
the US Small Business Administration and now on the faculty at HBS. The situation worsened during the 2008 financial crisis, and lending to the sector has never really recovered. Armed with proprietary algorithms and can-do attitudes,...
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Nancy Miller
- 01 Jun 2011
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What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business from the 2008–2009 View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
forced business closings due to contentious negotiations between the unions and the state and other employers. A real black swan. This has worsened an economy already weakened by the global financial crisis. Such conditions test the...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Monaco's Digital Transformation
says. “It’s like speaking in English today. You don’t have to be Shakespeare, but you do have to understand it well enough.” The Extended Monaco program also is helping existing businesses by providing financial View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
from the atmosphere annually. The revised Section 45Q substantially increases subsidies for direct-air capture (DAC), which removes carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, and makes the incentives available to smaller companies—changes...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Case Study: Growing the Family Business
growth significantly. How do we go about finding the financing that we need to expand?” The Answers: I have started and operated three iterations of childcare companies going back 25 years. We encountered the same issues. We addressed the upfront center cost issue by...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas Pitt, savior of the East India...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
one would be willing to invest in research for fear that imitators who had not spent a dime on R&D would become competitors and drive down profits. By protecting innovations, patents are an essential incentive for the development of new...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth
financial theory explicitly into account, but rather, do their actions intuitively take it into account? What practical guidance can entrepreneurs and venture capitalists glean from this research? RN: Because of the bifurcation in fund...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
the fixed-fee system, filling cavities is a cost, not a revenue opportunity. So the financial incentive supports preventive care. So a system where health providers offer comprehensive care for a fixed fee...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts
for example, buys copy paper, it knows where the trees it’s made from were cut. That means the company can create and enforce purchasing standards so it’s not unwittingly contributing to illegal logging. We’re also exploring how you create View Details
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
in competitiveness because it must set the rules, regulations, and incentives that govern the nature of competition. Government also must invest in public assets on which all business depends: physical infrastructure, public education,...
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