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September 2017
Supplement

Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (B)

By: Victoria Ivashina and Eren Kuzucu

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

Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Transformation; Valuation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is often lauded for bringing economic growth and know-how to developing countries. The conventional wisdom is not necessarily wrong, but the real story is much more nuanced than is commonly believed, says... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2014
Other Unpublished Work

Government-held Equity in Foreign Investment Projects: Good for Host Countries?

By: Louis T. Wells

Host governments have often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the risks and often unanticipated costs... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Equity; Business and Government Relations

14 Oct 2014
News

Abigail Johnson Named CEO of Fidelity Investments

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

since then I’ve been trying to understand the economic gaps in the United States. Why are large groups of people systemically financially underprivileged?” One answer, Davis soon discovered, is a lack of access to real estate. Davis, now the CEO of real estate View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

June 1995 (Revised May 1996)
Teaching Note

Investment Linked to Commodity Futures, An TN

By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee

Teaching Note for (9-293-017). View Details

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures

November 1987 (Revised March 1988)
Case

Citicorp's Investment Bank and Vickers da Costa

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Article

Why Congress Should Invest in Open-Source Software

By: Frank Nagle

November 2018 (Revised March 2019)
Case

Roofstock: The Cloud of Real Estate Investing

By: Marco Di Maggio and Julia Kelley

Educators

March 2018
Case

Transportation Infrastructure Investment and Low U.S. Growth

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Educators

June 2004
Teaching Note

Yale University Investments Office: June 2003 (TN)

By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note to (9-204-055). View Details

Keywords: Education Industry

August 2001
Teaching Note

New Business Investment Company: October 1997 TN

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for (9-299-025). View Details

Keywords: Japan

December 1989
Article

LDC Debt: Forgiveness, Indexation, and Investment Incentives

By: K. A. Froot, D. Scharfstein and J. Stein

Keywords: Debt Reduction; Chapter 7; Default; Debt Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt

06 Feb 2019
News

How Investment Made Singapore an Innovation Hub

May 2020
Article

Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment

By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn

Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the first evidence on the effects of an intervention... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Competency and Skills; Training; Age; Gender; Education; Investment; Outcome or Result; Developing Countries and Economies

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There is growing interest in impact investing, the idea of deploying capital to obtain both financial and social or environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation, one of the largest and... View Details

Article

The End of Foreign Investment in Russia?

By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Russia

July 2013
Case

B. Zaitz & Sons Co. Farmland Investing

By: Andre F. Perold

In April 2013, Ben Zaitz was looking down at an expanse of agricultural land as his plane flew over the Midwest. He would soon arrive in northern Minnesota to meet with farmers regarding land he had recently purchased there. The vast tracts of row-crop acreage below... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Investment; Market Participation; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Minnesota; Latin America; Africa; United States; Europe

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