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28 Apr 2022
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Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

On March 24, five teams of Harvard students came together to pitch innovative impact investment opportunities in early-stage social enterprises. The students were participants in a hands-on impact investing... View Details

June 2007 (Revised December 2007)
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AFL-CIO: Office of Investment and Home Depot

By: Rakesh Khurana and James Weber

Describes the AFL-CIO: Office of Investments activities in their campaign to improve governance at Home Depot by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Shareholder Relations

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2023
Working Paper

Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment

By: Alexander P. Frankel, Joshua L. Krieger, Danielle Li and Dimitris Papanikolaou

We examine the role of spillover learning in shaping the value of exploratory versus incremental R&D. Using data from drug development, we show that novel drug candidates generate more knowledge spillovers than incremental ones. Despite being less likely to reach... View Details

Keywords: Research and Development; Forecasting and Prediction; Valuation; Pharmaceutical Industry

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July 1994
Teaching Note

ARCO Investment Management Company TN

By: Jay O. Light and James O. Sailer

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

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August 2024
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Discerene Group: Long-Term Public-Markets Investing

By: Luis M. Viceira and Brent Schwarz

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March 1985
Exercise

Introduction to Investment Evaluation Techniques

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March 2014
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Fundamental Analysis for Active Investing

By: Suraj Srinivasan

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January 1988
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Costs of Capital Investment Proposals

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04 Sep 2019
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Impact Investing Firm Wins Grant

Keywords: social impact; Finance; entrepreneurship; Finance

01 Jan 2011
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Investing in the Post-Recession World

Keywords: Sage Newman, Courtney Rickert, Ross D. Schaap

Nov 05 2018
Interview

Savvy Investing for the Family Office

March 1993 (Revised July 1994)
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Gerber Products Company: Investing in the New Poland

By: Debora L. Spar

Examines Gerber Products Co.'s evaluation of Alima S.A., one of Poland's largest food processing plants, as a potential overseas investment in 1991. Factors that influenced Gerber's decision are discussed in detail: property rights, taxation issues, and Poland's... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Food and Beverage Industry; Poland

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18 Nov 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

Keywords: by Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob & Martin Jacob

30 May 2019
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How to Ensure ESG Investing Isn’t Whitewash

April 1998 (Revised May 1998)
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Investing to Develop Future Capabilities

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Investment

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March 1998
Teaching Note

Yale University Investments Office and Yale University Investments Office: November 1997 (TN)

By: Josh Lerner

Teaching Note for (9-296-040) and (9-298-077). View Details

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March 1997 (Revised November 1997)
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Incidents in Foreign Direct Investment

By: Louis T. Wells Jr. and Courtenay Sprague

Presents seven examples (i.e., incidents) of conflict concerning foreign direct investment. The incidents lay the framework for discussion of issues such as the jurisdiction of the WTO and the U.S. position, the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 and its political implications,... View Details

Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Laws and Statutes; United States

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