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- March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
Generation Investment Management
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta
By January 2020, sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation), founded in London in 2004, had grown from a shared vision among seven founders to a 90-person firm managing $27 billion in public and private equity. Throughout its history,... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Finance; Equity; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Sarah Mehta. "Generation Investment Management." Harvard Business School Case 820-033, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023 - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
so big this has a huge impact on the rest of the global food system. What happens in China, what Chinese people eat, impacts what you and I pay for food." What happened in... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
Publications August 2013 Marketing Science Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—We estimate a dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
and the impact that entrepreneurs have on growth in developing nations Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:John Wiley, 2009 Publisher's Abstract Too Big... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni
resources and articles Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know , book by HBS Professor F. Warren McFarlan Resources for Increased Impact Leading With Intent: BoardSource Index of Nonprofit Board... View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Cecil Alfaro-Mora - MBA
one I felt confident and proud to portray in an HBS application. How long did you defer your 2+2 admission? I deferred for four years (the maximum amount of time), mainly because my role and View Details
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part of the Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village. This program has been designed to enable motivated undergraduates to pursue summer business research in a defined project and also participate in a View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
offset by a tax on noncorporate business income and an expansion of taxable income. Topics include tax-avoidance techniques, globalization, repatriation taxes, corporate social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2022 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change
By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
In 2016, Swedish entrepreneurs Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Peter Carlsson founded an electric battery company called Northvolt with the dual goals of creating a company to address climate change and bringing battery manufacture to Europe. Northvolt, which succeeded in... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Climate Change; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Green Technology; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Green Technology Industry; Battery Industry; Sweden; Europe
Serafeim, George, Debora L. Spar, and Julia M. Comeau. "Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change." Harvard Business School Case 323-042, November 2022. (Revised March 2024.)
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Responsibilities to Society This note outlines a framework to help managers discern and deliver on their responsibilities to society that has been taught in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
long used corporate social responsibility initiatives and philanthropy to improve their standing with consumers. Now there is a new crop of... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
Working PapersCatering to Characteristics (revised) Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49602 Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality By: Eccles, Robert G., View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28
the start-up movement about how best to organize and execute new ventures as “business experiments.” These lessons from the “start-up garage” enable established corporations to make progress on new ventures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
by thinking about how it might have changed an important decision, had we had it in place when we made the decision. My experiences in researching and putting a value on an effective culture tell me that if notions concerning deep purpose... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett