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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
features a seller with private information and costly buyer participation. The empirical context of the study is the market for original movie ideas. Consistent with the theory, I find that inexperienced writers are excluded from selling...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income...
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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
was undergoing the non-tradable share reform. Its current controlling shareholder, private equity firm Newbridge Capital LLC, needs to negotiate with its diverse minority shareholders to find a compromise on the terms of the conversion of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
the career implications of whatever he chooses to do. Students will learn about private equity investing, Entrepreneurship via franchising, the health club industry, and career decision-making. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chairman of the privately held S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (more popularly known as SC Johnson Wax), thinks of the story as more than a charming anecdote. "In my dreams I fantasize that someday Johnson Wax will be able to conduct a...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
a strong collaboration between the Time to Read national program and media and entertainment giant Time Warner, Inc. Time to Read helps local nonprofits such as Chicago's Off the Street Club recruit children, youths, and even adults from...
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by James Austin
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
(RRP). By expanding the overall supply of safe short-term claims, the Fed can weaken the market-based incentives for private sector intermediaries to issue too many of their own short-term liabilities. And crucially, we argue that the Fed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
commit scarce resources. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117114-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-424 The Quiet Ascension of LA Fitness In 2016, LA Fitness was the largest chain of non-franchised fitness View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
entrepreneur—would take him far away from Calhoun, he returned in 1997 to give his three daughters the opportunity to grow up in the close-knit community he remembered from his childhood. He continued his work across the private and...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Social Enterprise Initiative's blog. JULY 29 In the fall of 2019, Brian Sykes (MBA 2020) and Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020) launched HBS's Black Investment Club to address underrepresentation of Black investors in VC, PE, and investment...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
these things, people look on it as the most difficult country to change." And yet, a shift appears under way. A new reformist government has started treating agriculture as a problem to be solved by industry rather than by aid. Private...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
a well-worn career path for his cohort at Trinity College, one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious private high schools. It wasn’t a traditional high school experience, however; between the ages of 16 and 18, Mawilmada guesses he attended...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
him!” During the new group’s first ownership season in 1993, well before they put together the financing for what would be the first privately funded MLB park since 1962, Baer and his colleagues took the pulse of the fans. “After all the...
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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
it ensured access to these (as well as other) attractive, otherwise inaccessible careers. In their eyes—as well as those of many students—the full-time MBA is increasingly aimed at "career switchers." For those wishing to change fields—to enter investment banking,...
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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Ampofo (MBA 2020) launched HBS's Black Investment Club to address underrepresentation of Black investors in VC, PE, and investment management in the hopes of creating a focused organization that empowers the Black community. “The idea...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
(both MBA 1996) proposed the contest as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. “We looked at it as not just a theoretical paper for class but a sustainable plan,” says Wagonfeld, who was then...
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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of their portfolio. To do this, YES BANK created a distinct Development...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
failing to deliver on some of its critical roles. Unfortunately, the federal government today is in a state of gridlock and is not addressing some important areas of national concern. But government is not the whole story. We believe strongly that the View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
annual budget with Black-owned businesses. because those percentages represent the time that Officer Chauvin had his knee in George Floyd's neck. Black-owned businesses are the largest private employer of Black people in the country. And...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
bridge and an express railway link to the central business district, represent a $20.1-billion investment. Two-thirds of the funds are coming from government, Lam noted, while the remainder is being sourced from the private sector. Philip...
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Alejandro Reyes