Pension Guarantee Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

faces in its journey towards a net-zero target by 2070: 1) Funding Gap – Where is the Money Coming From? A study by the CEEW (Singh & Sidhu, 2021) reveals that India needs USD 10.1 trillion between 2020 and 2070 to achieve its... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

H. Cohen : “AQR’s Momentum Funds (A)” (HBS Case 211-025) with Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Christopher Malloy was selected as a Case Centre Bestselling Finance, Accounting and Control Case in 2021. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of... View Details

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

issues on the subject at the Cyberposium panel "Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?" Although the forms of their organizations vary in large and small ways, one thing all the participants agreed on was that incubators are catching on in part because it... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Solar at Ameresco Rick Needham HBS MBA 2002, Partner, Energy Sector Lead, TPG / The Rise Fund “Addressing climate change is one of the most critical challenges we face as a global community and will require us to muster all the vision,... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

able to begin talking about such a difficult episode and fraught question.” Those opposed to reparations point to the fact that so much time has passed since the damage, and that neither the victims nor the perpetrators are still living. Providing compensation with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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End Game

funds to fight the climate crisis immediately; provide stewardship for the company into the future; and reduce the burden of stewardship on the Chouinard family. “Yvon told us to look at everything,” Conn recalls. It took two years but... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

competitive advantage while doing the right thing, rather than an imposition or a burden. According to Maersk leadership, the two keys to their decarbonization strategy are: Strong relationships with customers to get them on board with paying a premium to help View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Greenhill Award in 2021 for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community. Lauren H. Cohen : “AQR’s Momentum Funds (A)” (HBS Case 211-025) with Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Christopher Malloy was selected as a Case Centre... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost of adding new customers—work for challengers too. What then allows platforms to fight off rivals and... View Details

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Editor's note: Seasoned entrepreneurs know that a great idea for a new company is no guarantee of a successful exit. Startups fail more often than not, largely due to hubris-fueled mistakes by an inexperienced founding team. Alas, the... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

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Harvard Business School

growth-stage entities in obtaining access to capital, with sources of funding ranging from banks to high net-worth individuals. Cleveland was a presidential appointee to the Small Business Administration's Investment Division, where he... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

retrofit construction, and for driving urgent change during an era of unprecedented affordability and resiliency crises.” The five-year project, launched in 2020, has funding from the US Department of Energy, California Energy Commission,... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

changed, and with it the security that used to come almost automatically with an MBA degree. [ ] High-paying jobs are no longer guaranteed to graduates, and the opportunity costs of two years of training—especially for those who still... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

payments to support clients’ liquidity; helped salons apply to crisis relief funding such as unemployment support and rent postponement; hired consultants to create guidelines for safety measures in the salons, and shared them with each... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

10 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 10

of exiting or continuing to build her business. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313149-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-139 Note on Pension Guarantee Funds... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

assurances and guarantees were hard to come by, difficult to negotiate, and project inception could take decades. In this context could pension funds or private equity-type... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2022
News

Addressing The Financial Security Gap

offering guaranteed lifetime income through workplace retirement plans. As Ackerley explains, many American workers used to have defined benefit plans, or pensions, that ensured a steady stream of income in retirement. Some companies and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

15 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 15

spending four years aggressively moving the fifth largest pension fund in the United States into alternative asset classes, Harris felt that TRS shouldn't just participate in private equity View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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