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Philipp Schäelli
started out exploring options ranging from Venture Capital to activist hedge fund investing and joined several clubs like the Entrepreneurship and VC/PE club to learn more about these industries and start to build a network. When it came...
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Print View - Course Catalog
particular, how should companies invest in and capture value from "superstars" and the teams to which they belong? How are digital technologies changing the entertainment industries? For instance, how are...
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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
today in the nonprofit sector. Back then, our clients were being asked to make significant investments in IT, so of course they asked, what's my return? As a result I got very engaged in how one collects and presents information to show...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses left for the suburbs, property...
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Thomas Frick
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
logic. All major technologies deploy when they overcome the circular conundrum and an adaptation conundrum. The circular conundrum arises because maximum value from the commercial technology requires all components to work together. That...
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Alex Roth
offer breakthroughs, but business is the best way to distribute them to millions of consumers. We see a lot of good ideas fail because they weren't executed successfully — we need leadership that understands how to bring value to the...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
cost of starting firms falls, this lowers the cost of the option, so you will take on higher option value projects. You will potentially take on more of them and focus less on governance in the early stages. It’s what is known as a “spray...
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April White
- Career Coach
Craig Husa
value to their customers. Craig’s ability and desire to coach team members, both young and old, has been a key to the success of these teams. “The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave, is not training them...
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Brighton Mudzingwa
Business and Investment Club (HABIC), "an organization focused exclusively on exploring how business and investment capital can be used to propel economic development in Africa." Unlearning old...
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Financial Services
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must have credible information...
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by Tarun Khanna
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
generations to come. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9261.html The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:Best Paper Proceedings...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Building Web 3 Businesses - Course Catalog
and thus potentially rebalancing their relationship with online platforms. This new Internet architecture holds the potential for building disintermediated financial and payment rails that could improve financial inclusion and revolutionize how View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out...
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by Ann Cullen
- June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Oddo Securities―ESG Integration
By: Paul M. Healy
The case describes the process of integrating environmental, social, and governance issues into valuation models and research analyst recommendations.
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Financial Strategy;
Mathematical Methods;
Integration;
Valuation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Issues;
Governance Controls;
Investment
Serafeim, George, Paul M. Healy, and Aldo Sesia. "Oddo Securities―ESG Integration." Harvard Business School Case 111-085, June 2011. (Revised January 2013.)
- February 2011 (Revised September 2016)
- Case
Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Nori Gerardo Lietz
In January 2007, Hazem Ben-Gacem, managing director and co-head of Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), needs to decide what to bid at an auction for Moneybookers Limited, one of the top three e-payment solution providers in Europe. However, approximately 70% of...
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Business Startups;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Auctions;
Bids and Bidding;
Valuation;
Europe;
United States
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Nori Gerardo Lietz. "Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid." Harvard Business School Case 811-013, February 2011. (Revised September 2016.)
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2018
- Book
A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility
By: Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A...
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Financial Fragility;
Economic Risk;
Investor Behavior;
Behavioral Economics;
Financial Crisis;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Financial Markets;
Investment;
Values and Beliefs;
United States
Gennaioli, Nicola, and Andrei Shleifer. A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility. Princeton University Press, 2018.
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
impact investment funds to achieve significant financial returns to scale. This case allows for a competitive analysis of DBL's investment strategy as it seeks to deploy $400m, as well as the opportunity to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Megan Gardner
Megan (HBS ’06) is an executive coach, board member and tactical advisor for CEOs and senior executives. As a founder and CEO of a technology business, she knows first-hand the value of strong coaching in a rapidly growing business. In...
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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
the investment in IT as the investment in standards." The second characteristic, said Upton, is network effects. "Think about the value of owning the first telephone....
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by Kenneth Liss