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- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
The VC money "overhang" continues as investors compete to get into a small number of deals each year. How do smart venture firms approach the challenge? A report from the 11th Annual Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
Mexico may have found a formula for avoiding most of the misfortunes that could arise when individuals invest their own funds. What's the right way to support an aging workforce? And why is it that a concept—life-long security—that should bring comfort to all of us is so distasteful to address in public? Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
Historically, stock analysts’ recommendations have been swayed by business relationships between the analyst’s employer and the target company, says Professor Mark Bradshaw. Have recent SEC reforms helped? Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
This isn't your father's venture capital. Amusement parks, satellite networks, oil fields, toll roads: HBS Professor Benjamin Esty studies financing of large projects. Q&A Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
If the private equity industry has a life cycle, these are the teenage years for Europe, according to panelists at the conference session on European private equity. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Do the markets need an investor's union? Should company audits be overseen by stock exchanges? If you want to restore investor confidence, think radical reforms, say professors Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
In an e-mail Q&A, HBS professor Josh Lerner discusses issues including transparency and private equity, buyout firms, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the role of VC on innovation. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Gyaana means "knowledge" in Sanskrit—a fitting name for a business that aims to fight the 50 percent dropout rate in India by offering microfinance loans to families. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
In this Harvard Business Review excerpt, HBS professor Stefan Thomke describes how Bank of America applies a systematic R&D process to create services. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
What’s still wrong with American business? Start with pervasive conflicts of interest and the limits of enforcement. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
Will risk-averse corporate audit committees' natural tendencies to engage the biggest accounting firms insure that the current accounting oligopoly will become even stronger? Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow in Business History for the 2002-03 academic year, discusses his research work and his experiences as a Fellow at Harvard Business School in this interview with Laura Linard. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t CrooksWhy Good Audits Go Bad
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act sets stiff penalties for auditors and executives who commit fraud. Problem is, says Harvard Business School professor Max H. Bazerman and his collaborators, most bad audits are the result of unconscious bias, not corruption. Here's a new look at how to audit the auditors. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
How is the VC industry doing on its own and in partnership with software and telecoms? These were just three topics discussed in special panel sessions at the recent conference. Here, a few highlights from those conversations. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
According to HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, the venture capital industry—like computers, telephony, and brokerage before it—is susceptible to the same forces that have waylaid many seemingly invincible players. What that means, said the author of the influential bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, is that the time is ripe for the right people to create new, disruptive forms of financing. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
Once viewed simply as low-cost channels for resolving customer concerns, call centers are increasingly seen as powerful service delivery mechanisms and even as generators of revenue. Research by HBS Professor Frances X. Frei and her colleagues Ann Evenson and Patrick T. Harker of the Wharton School points toward new ways of making them work. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
Despite many success stories and a rapid rise to prominence, the venture capital industry remains a mystery to most, and questions about its sustainability persist. In this excerpt from their pathbreaking book The Venture Capital Cycle, HBS Professors Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner look toward the future of this misunderstood financial intermediary. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
At the annual Cyberposium conference held at Harvard Business School, venture capitalists pondered what makes for winners and losers in the new VC landscape. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.