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  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

are welcomed. With seed money from its founders and multiyear pledges from companies and individuals, by June 2021, the fund had raised almost $30 million toward its $100 million goal. The first round of... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

helped pay for scholarships and faculty salaries. But when protestors in the 1980s challenged the board to end investments in companies operating in South Africa during apartheid, Hayes said he was against such a move. Those who provided View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2011
  • Module Note

Orientation to Leadership Intelligence Days, 2011

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Anthony J. Mayo
Julie Bornstein, senior vice president of Sephora Direct, is seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit and there is a desire to... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Online Technology; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

assistance changed the landscape of money market funds in the last months of 2008 and into 2009. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310135-PDF-ENG GUIDES: Insight through Indicators... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Don’t Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate & J. Bruce Harreld
  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

change, oil companies are diversifying their businesses, putting money toward renewable energy sources and green technology. While sustainable funds shun fossil fuel producers, which contribute half of the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
  • January 2015 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

New Urban Mechanics

By: Mitchell Weiss
Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect across the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Civic Technology; Government Innovation; Civic Innovation; Cities; New Urban Mechanics; Thomas. M. Menino; Chris Osgood; Nigel Jacob; Connected Bits; SeeClickFix; Ben Berkowitz; Eric Carlson; Dave Mitchell; Government Technology; Open Innovation; Open Source Software; Citizens Connect; Commonwealth Connect; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation and Management; Open Source Distribution; Public Administration Industry; Information Technology Industry; Boston
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    New Urban Mechanics

    Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect... View Details
    • 11 May 2021
    • Blog Post

    IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

    Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
    • 15 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

    much-needed cash but also expertise and advice. In a perfect world, everyone benefits. The VC firm takes an equity stake and makes money when the company succeeds, rewarding limited partners who have invested in the VC firm. But what... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • October 2020 (Revised June 2021)
      • Case

      The Bronx Community Foundation

      By: Brian Trelstad and Aldo Sesia
      Derrick and Desmon Lewis were both successful professionals in the consulting and banking industries. They were born and raised in The Bronx, New York City’s poorest borough. The Lewis brothers had always wanted to give back to the community. In 2016 they launched a... View Details
      Keywords: Community Foundations; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Relationships; Business Model; Social Issues; New York (city, NY); United States
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      • 17 Feb 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

      a 401(k) program. Boeing threatened to move construction of the 777X jetliner to another state without the concession. Funding The Future Even so, companies are still on the hook for paying benefits to those employees who have already... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services
      • 01 Dec 2003
      • What Do You Think?

      Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

      investor, I feel powerless to control or even understand how my mutual funds operate." Anupam Bordia comments, "the mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds." There is... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett

        Sandlands Vineyards

        Approximately 80% of the 9,000 wineries in the US breakeven or lose money. An even greater percentage, perhaps 90-95%, lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the capital employed).  Tegan Passalacqua is a Californian winemaker who appears to have... View Details

        • 07 Dec 2015
        • Research & Ideas

        The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

        and believe in. Consider that one of those tools, crowdfunding, is on track to account for more investment money than venture capital itself by 2016, rising from just $880 million in 2010 to an estimated $34 billion by 2015. To understand... View Details
        Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
        • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
        • Case

        Bulb 2015: Foundation

        By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
        In late August 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb, Ltd (Bulb), were ready to offer affordable renewable energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million households. They hoped to capitalize on the hundreds of thousands of customers switching their energy... View Details
        Keywords: Green Energy; Start-up; Launch; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Management; Start-ups; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Business Plan; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth and Development Strategy; United Kingdom
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        • 02 Apr 2018
        • Research & Ideas

        Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

        vasilchenko The odds investors face when deciding which startup to back are long enough to make any self-respecting poker player toss in their cards. “Most investors know that when they write a $50,000 check they have a 98 percent chance of never seeing that View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
        • March 2008 (Revised February 2009)
        • Case

        Transparent Value LLC

        By: Sharon P. Katz, Krishna G. Palepu and Aldo Sesia, Jr.
        Leading index company Dow Jones recently signed a license and joint marketing agreement with Transparent Value LLC, the creator of a new fundamentals-based valuation methodology. The agreement allowed Dow Jones to offer a family of indexes based on the Transparent... View Details
        Keywords: Asset Management; Stocks; Price; Performance Expectations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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        • 05 Feb 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: February 5, 2008

        Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace