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  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

facilitating face-to-face interactions can provide information that impacts the formation of scientific collaborations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-023.pdf Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2019 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

TXU (A): Powering the Largest Leveraged Buyout in History

By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Non-Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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  • 02 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

WE RISE

exclusive than the approximately 7,000 companies worldwide that received a venture investment in 2010. Birchbox was among the just 823 companies—11.8 percent—that had at least one woman founder. The number with a woman of color on the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • Web

My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015) - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
  • November 2008 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

South Pole Carbon Asset Management-Going for Gold?

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Jost Hamschmidt and Mikell Hyman
In late 2008, Christoph Sutter, CEO of South Pole Carbon Asset Management, reflects on his firm's early success at originating carbon credits in developing nations and selling them to governments and firms that seek to offset their greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Non-Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy
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  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Sustainable Investing Finance, Entrepreneurial Management Vikram Gandhi Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) Entrepreneurial Management, Accounting & Management Tatiana Sandino... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames. In their 1979 study, groups of high school students were given funds to invest. Participants could opt to invest individually, at a relatively low rate of return, or to add some or all of their funds to a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
  • Profile

Michael Maples

successful funds, all predicated on finding and investing in these startups that reflect “exponential potentiality”, a significant disruption and a sustainable impact on the future. “Part... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

took in $2.8 billion in new investments during the first six months of this year. The new, public nature of the commercial real estate market thrives on information, once a precious commodity, now an industry fixture View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • Web

Building Web 3 Businesses - Course Catalog

learn the technical and practical underpinnings of the blockchain landscape through a series of live exercises. Career Focus This course has been specifically designed for students who are considering founding, joining, or investing in... View Details
  • Web

Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Creating Brand Value Course Number 1925 Executive Fellow Michael Moynihan Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Assistant Professor Julian de Freitas Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Career Focus: This course is designed for students who... View Details
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

businesses has reduced the company's once dynamic growth close to zero. As the newly appointed CEO, Ishrak faces the formidable challenge of restoring the company's growth. In his first 18 months as CEO, he has laid the groundwork for future growth by ramping up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2017
  • Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

only be responding to innovations in the private sector,” she said. “Why is it that we assume that all the innovation will come from the private sector? Why can’t a city have an innovation lab?” Stefan Knupfer, a senior partner and leader of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Oct 2014
  • News

Innovating for International Aid

and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in the agency to View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • 04 Dec 2019
  • News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

like investing in sustainability or anything that is an impact fund. So a corporation B, where it’s not just about return on investment, but it’s also about having an impact in our environment, in our... View Details
  • Web

From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

FY 17 36 48 FY 16 34 47 * Includes Doctoral Programs and Executive Education Investment in Research (in millions) FY 20 FY 19 FY 18 FY 17 FY 16 $ 131 152 144 136 131 Fiscal 2020 Financial Summary Total revenues in fiscal 2020 were $861... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Whale Wars

have now returned to work, but not as the same person who left. As an individual, I will “take less,” in many ways. As a businessperson, what I have learned will affect every investment decision I make. Sustainability, or the lack of it,... View Details
Keywords: Marybeth I. Thoren; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • December 2019 (Revised January 2021)
  • Supplement

The Leveraged Buyout of TXU: (B) Energy Future Holdings

By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

succession planning processes are very important in leveraging great executives and managers. It pays for firms to invest in hiring and developing great managers. Second, a given year’s winning percentage is not affected by the previous... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports