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  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Abstract The potential supply of biomass feedstocks in the U.S. and Canada is estimated using a static supply function approach. Estimated total biomass available at a price of $100 per metric ton is 568 million metric tons in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

and other ancillary services such as mergers and acquisition work, private placements, asset financings, and so on. The mixed results of prior research that we summarized in the Investor Relations Quarterly article are not surprising if... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
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  • 12 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

truly reintegrate into society if few firms will hire them? And, how can society—especially at a time of rising prices and low unemployment—afford to exclude the roughly one in three working Americans with criminal records from the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

industries in its preferred direction. We find that exogenous price shocks proved particularly helpful in this regard. The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose Authors:Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=6747   Working Papers Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary provides a benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

related to the possession of deep individual technical skills in hundreds of diverse disciplines," the researchers conclude in their paper, Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. "Boeing's unique View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

traditional banks have a stable source of funding, while shadow banks are subject to runs and fire-sale losses. In equilibrium, traditional banks have a comparative advantage at holding fixed-income assets that have only modest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

issued by the African Development Bank or by a nation, an investor can put his or her money behind a specific asset or piece of an asset. Think of mutual fund pricing and tracking: if Fidelity and Vanguard... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 07 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

signature insight which established his reputation permanently. To be brief: John Lintner—the capital asset pricing model. Howard Raiffa—Bayesian decision theory. Georges Doriot—venture capital. Theodore... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k) is worth and you'll hear a cash... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late February, the company announced that it would convert as much as $50 billion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

a valuation objective, are critical features of an economic GAAP. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 10

Using transcripts from the English-language conference calls of non-U.S. firms, we find that linguistic complexity is positively associated with the language barriers in the firms' home country. We then show that conference calls that are more linguistically complex... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

assets to build something that could be expanded beyond a single niche. “From day one, because of my learning at Upromise, where it was my job to lead the building of that product, I had to learn about scale and platform. So from... View Details
  • Profile

Deborah A. Farrington

assets under management, in the U.S. In an industry where just six percent of the partners in venture capital firms are women, finding a successful firm run by a woman is more than unusual. But unusual is nothing new for Farrington.... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive knowledge flows and active... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

languages in many countries. We've been building that infrastructure ever since. Since we started, we've added a lot of technology to the marketplace over time and utilized the World Wide Web. And we've changed the pricing model quite a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

resilient, and consumer-centric through the application of data science and behavioral economics, optimizing the system assets and operations across the electric meter.” Natalie Deschamps MBA 2015 | A Fundamental Foundation "I ultimately... View Details