Informal Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

lending, pawnbroking, refund-anticipation loans, and informal lending. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209107 Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent with markets failing to properly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

of government programs and financial investment in driving this growth, exploration, and learning will center on a few key questions: The State of Singapore – How does the country’s industrial policy work? Singapore’s industrial policy... View Details

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2011
News

Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

Professor Ashraf (center) with members of the study implementation team at Chipata Clinic, Lusaka, Zambia, including fi eld managers, surveyors, community health workers, and a study nurse. (click for larger view) Read a summary of Ashraf's recent presentation at HBS... View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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Betas

How do I find current betas for companies? Historical? Industry Beta? Current BETA: Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and... View Details

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

investing in people even prior to the achievement of results. Context Using examples from sports and business, and responding to numerous listener questions, Professor Kanter discussed her research and conclusions from her most recent... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

HBSAB Board Member John Carrier (MBA 2000). “This is a topic that many of our members are very interested in,” he says. “It was such a great case and everyone engaged with it.” HBSAB President David Harris (MBA 1984) adds that engaging and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Apr 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned at SVMP

begin a huge project, start backwards. Particularly, the cases at SVMP included a variety of information – sometimes unnecessary, superfluous information (often the 'company history' context). I learned from... View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

investment opportunity that traditional VCs are simply overlooking. In this special episode of Skydeck, recorded live at Fall Reunions, Dodi speaks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about the challenges that female founders still face—and... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Averting Crisis

beliefs play a central role. I have worked on projects that study beliefs and important economic decisions, in the context of corporate investment in general, and banking and the financial crisis in particular.” —Yueran Ma (PhDBE 2018),... View Details

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2018
News

Case Study: On the Record

the risk associated with investing the potentially significant time and money necessary for the R&D, equipment, and talent that could eliminate these bottlenecks, or focus on growing the business with its current industry-leading... View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

Europe, a private equity investment company, had worked in the family business for a few years but had developed a career mainly outside of the family business. The transfer of the shares’ ownership had tightened the three brothers’ bonds... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

compete against the customer's manifest priorities. Instead, he said, facilitate them. In the electronic learning industry, for example, textbook publishers have invested great sums into creating elaborate products with Web links that add... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

MS/MBA program as an opportunity to make a career change. Adam felt it would supply the necessary venue to inform and test his specific career hypothesis. He explained, “I wanted to understand why we have climate change and what I can do... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

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How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value - Recruiting

Jessica returned to investing after graduation and said her experience with Anine Bing helped her see operations from a new angle. “This role actually taught me a lot of valuable information to consider from... View Details

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