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- 29 Jul 2010
- News
Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award
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The Future of Market Capitalism
By: Joseph L. Bower
In 2009 we are aware of the fragile state of our market system. But a careful examination of the long term prospects for the global economy reveal other problems that may destabilize the system that has created so much wealth in the period since the second world...
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Crises and Capital Requirements in Banking
previously entitled: The Role of Capital Adequacy Requirements in Sound Banking Systems
Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.
We analyse a... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
millions in investment capital and has purchased more than 60,000 acres in Chile’s Patagonia region, reported the Martha’s Vineyard Times (December 22, 2010). Adams’ approach recognizes that conserved land has many values—for recreation,...
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- 15 Nov 2019
- News
What Deval Patrick Did At Bain Capital
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
economy as a whole, connections that were overlooked by more locally focused histories. Capitalism has not observed boundaries, and now neither do those studying it. Scholars currently working on American...
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Manufacturing
- 2021
- Article
Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing
By: William Janeway, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital booms and startup financing, focusing on three broad areas: First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the venture capital asset class, particularly in recent years—which are related...
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Janeway, William, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing." Annual Review of Financial Economics 13 (2021): 111–127.
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boomor Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer...
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by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Does Capitalism Need To Be Reimagined?
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do this by allocating scarce View Details
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 2022
- Working Paper
Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History: A Roundtable Discussion
By: Sabine Pitteloud, Grace Ballor, Patricia Clavin, Nicolás M. Perrone, Neil Rollings and Quinn Slobodian
This working paper brings together a diverse group of scholars to discuss the historiography of capitalism, business history and global governance and lay the foundations for further research in this area. Grace Ballor and Sabine Pitteloud open the discussion with a...
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Capitalism;
Business History;
Multinational Corporation;
Business And Government Relations;
Business And Society;
Business And The Environment;
International Relations;
Regulation;
Business Interest Association;
Lobbying;
Private Governance;
State-business Relations;
Political Risk;
Neo-Liberalism;
Governance;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Government and Politics
Pitteloud, Sabine, Grace Ballor, Patricia Clavin, Nicolás M. Perrone, Neil Rollings, and Quinn Slobodian. "Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History: A Roundtable Discussion." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-081, June 2022.
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Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level...
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Private Equity and Venture Capital
venture capital fields, our foundational investment program, Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital, may be more appropriate. The programs are not intended to be taken consecutively and are designed to meet the needs of two...
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- January 2007 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Capital Field: A Room with a View
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Joshua Wyatt
Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a company formed by U.S.-educated Polish natives involved in real...
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Investment;
Emerging Markets;
State Ownership;
Privatization;
Property;
Real Estate Industry;
Poland
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Joshua Wyatt. "Capital Field: A Room with a View." Harvard Business School Case 207-091, January 2007. (Revised July 2008.)
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
capitalism is "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing View Details
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by Nancy Koehn
- February 2022
- Case
NFX Capital and Moov Technologies
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller
In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage...
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Venture Capital;
Network Effects;
Marketplace Matching;
Digital Platforms;
Market Design;
Applications and Software;
Semiconductor Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
San Francisco
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "NFX Capital and Moov Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 822-045, February 2022.
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
led Harlem Capital to invest in exciting women and diverse-owned companies including 4Degrees, Cashdrop, Malomo, and Repeat. These innovative companies are doing important work driving the economy forward,...
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- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
won the Cold War. Doesn't capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see challenges that will have to be met. So on the occasion of the School's Centennial, we felt it was appropriate to try to...
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by Garry Emmons
- 09 Apr 2020
- News