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- July 2023
- Article
Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment
By: Jin Li, Gary Pisano, Richard Xu and Feng Zhu
The scalability of a marketplace depends on the operations of the marketplace platform as well as its sellers’ capacities. In this study, we explore one strategy that a marketplace platform can use to enhance its scalability: providing an ancillary service to sellers.... View Details
Li, Jin, Gary Pisano, Richard Xu, and Feng Zhu. "Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment." Management Science 69, no. 7 (July 2023): 3958–3975.
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
events as an alternative to a traditional recruiting presentation. “Our most well attended Investment Management events are around tactical skills, like how to pitch a stock,”... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
I’d get to experience all of that. In my first week, I participated in a meeting with an entrepreneur pitching their startup. By the end of the week, the Underscore team decided to invest, and I was charged with quarterbacking the View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12
By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee
CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew, and Dong Ik Lee. "The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12." Working Paper, October 2015.
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Course Requirements
Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
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Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
Career Focus
For... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
working to solve that problem by investing in single-family homes in gentrifying communities, renovating them to high standards, and then offering them as rental units to working-class residents at... View Details
- November 2019
- Teaching Note
Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) and (B)
By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu (HBS MBA 1994) led private equity firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second larger player in the market, AFM,... View Details
- 2001
- Working Paper
When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity Dependent Firms
By: Malcolm Baker, Jeremy Stein and Jeffrey Wurgler
We use a simple model of corporate investment to determine when investment will be sensitive to non-fundamental movements in stock prices. The key cross-sectional prediction of the model is that stock prices will have a stronger impact on the investment of firms that... View Details
Baker, Malcolm, Jeremy Stein, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity Dependent Firms." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 8750, December 2001. (First draft in 2001.)
- 07 Jul 2021
- News
Peter Tufano Leaves An Impressive Record At Oxford Saïd
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
exist in perpetuity, means being able to produce that 5 percent plus inflation, which is a bit challenging in a low-interest-rate environment. “I think that we try to approach investments much in the same way that the corporation tries to... View Details
- July 2016
- Article
Economic Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets
By: Malinda S. Lee, Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern and Mark D. Hornstein
Objective: To estimate the national cost savings resulting from reductions in higher-order multiple (HOM) live births (defined as three or more fetuses), following the initial publication of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines on ET in... View Details
Lee, Malinda S., Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern, and Mark D. Hornstein. "Economic Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets." Fertility and Sterility 106, no. 1 (July 2016): 189–195.e3.
- 27 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance
- May 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Supplement
EY China (B): An Emerging Giant
By: Ashish Nanda, Das Narayandas and Lisa Rohrer
The case outlines how regional managing partner (RMP) Albert Ng steered Ernst & Young (EY) China through a period of significant growth from 2009, when it was the smallest of the Big Four firms in China, to 2017, by when it had become the second largest firm. Partners... View Details
Keywords: Professional Services; International Management; Big Four; Strategy And Execution; Emerging Market; Strategy; Growth Management; Leadership; Global Range; Emerging Markets; Competitive Strategy; Accounting Industry; China
Nanda, Ashish, Das Narayandas, and Lisa Rohrer. "EY China (B): An Emerging Giant." Harvard Business School Supplement 718-465, May 2018. (Revised July 2018.)
- 24 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What is an HBS MyTake?
MyTakes, and the JCD ultimately selects and helps coach those students prepare to tell their story in front of an auditorium full of their peers. We had 10 MyTakes in the 2014-2015 school year. They happen at least once a month, and also... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The practice of investment is changing. A rapidly growing share of assets around the globe are making investment choices targeting not just return, but also sustainability, values-alignment or impact. View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
You’re an Old Fuelie
For his first year at HBS, Jan Hyde (MBA ’66) arrived in style, driving all the way from San Francisco to Soldiers Field behind the wheel of a silver-and-white 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, a fuel-injected model known to aficionados as a... View Details
- 05 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
of confusion and burnout. Teams are failing to meet deadlines and executives tell me they see an increase in petty conflicts and a parallel pandemic of short tempers, exposed nerves, and increased sensitivity to perceived slights. It's... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
company takes that create unintended consequences for others—can be good or bad. An example of a positive externality is reduced healthcare costs for everyone when employees are required to get COVID-19... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert