Publications

June 2024
Case

Alignvest Student Housing: Keep Building or Time to Sell?

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Patrick Sanguineti

Sanjil Shah, Managing Partner of Alignvest Student Housing REIT (ASH), faces the most significant decision thus far in his career: is it the right time to sell the company? Together with his partner Reza Satchu, Shah had developed ASH into the largest student housing... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Exit Strategy; Real Estate; Founder; Equity Valuation; Decisions; Entrepreneurial Finance; Interest Rates; Health Pandemics; Housing; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Canada

January 2009
Background Note

Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity

By: Elisabeth Koll

Provides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely important role in China's economy in the 21st century. Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Networks; China

Fast Answer

Resources for Harvard Economics Students

and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. An active account can be used to download the Capital IQ excel... View Details

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

the "masculinization" of women. Society won't change until we change ourselves, Boteach said, referring to both sexes. When a woman student in the audience queried him about whether it would not be better for a woman to develop... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

Placement Students on the Job Market Please note this page will be updated throughout the fall. Accounting & Management Terrence Tianshuo Shi Abstract: Forthcoming Faculty Advisor(s): | Email Elliot Tobin Abstract: The Effects of... View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

Student Conferences, at a Glance

Every year, members of HBS student clubs work overtime to organize conferences that address an array of business-related themes and issues. This year’s events, which featured renowned guest speakers and thought-provoking panels, focused... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

This article was originally published by The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability 15 Harvard students, funded to attend COP28 in Dubai, reflect on their experiences. The COP Student Observers Funding Program, supported by the... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

Each year hundreds of hardworking HBS students volunteer their time to arrange on-campus conferences that attract a wide variety of top-notch speakers, expert panelists, and enthusiastic audience participants. Working through View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Martin Kanz, Economist, Development Economics Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Research, The World Bank

August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
Case

LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler

LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns... View Details

Keywords: Data Science; Data Analytics; Investing; Loans; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Model