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  • 15 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

direction. Teaching Purpose: To explore a model of building affordable housing and the challenge of implementing it in different communities. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=303130   PublicationsNew Business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

rose from $400 million in 1985 to $60 billion by 2000. Today, thanks to the revival of long-term investments under CEO Omar Ishrak, Medtronic’s shareholder value has risen to $110 billion. The challenge to the virtuous circle comes when... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Banking
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

Matthew, and Michael Ewens Abstract—This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities

can have by making an effort to honor their student's unique names. Learn more about the book on their Instagram account: @anamelikemine Henri Pierre-Jacques (MBA 2019) & Jarrid Tingle (MBA 2019) Managing Partners at Harlem Capital For Henri and Jarrid, View Details
  • Web

Company databases: which database to choose? | Baker Library

private equity and venture capital firms, funds, private companies, and deals. Subscription includes access to Preqin reports. LSEG Workspace Availability: HBS intranet; In-Library for Authorized Baker Visitors* Strengths/Unique Features:... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

just kind of look at all this,” says Mawilmada. “I like to imagine what it might be when I’m an old man.” His tone is a bit dreamy, but there’s an underlying current of urgency as well. As head of investments for Sri Lanka’s Western... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • December 2012
  • Case

Trouble Brewing for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Michael Norris
In October 2011, noted hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital delivered a presentation at an investors' conference analyzing the business and accounting quality weaknesses of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Until then Green Mountain had exhibited rapid... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Fraud; Accounting Quality; Accounting Red Flags; Accounting Restatements; Accounting Scandal; Accounting Information; Financial Accounting; Financial Analysts; Financial Analysis; Financial Intermediaries; Hedge Funds; Financial Ratios; Financial Statement Analysis; Valuation Methodologies; Earnings Quality; Accounting; Quality; Earnings Management; Valuation; Crime and Corruption; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Investment Funds; Financial Statements; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

exchanges. Shareholder protection strongly predicted exchange success, even in countries with high levels of venture capital activity, patenting, and financial market development. Second-tier exchanges in countries with better shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

(Abridged) Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

George Serafeim from more than 400 senior investment professionals provides insights into why and how investors use environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information as well as the challenges in using this information. Reinventing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Web Services

Aneel Bhusri, general partner at the venture capital firm Greylock. "Customers are quietly starting to use this technology, and they're driving significant cost savings." Investment has taken place... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-106.pdf Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model Authors:Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman, and William Schmidt Abstract We investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe

But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment banking group at... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance
  • May 2010
  • Teaching Note

Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company (TN)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III
Teaching Note for [810105]. View Details
Keywords: Production; Product Launch; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Brands and Branding; Distribution; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Auto Industry; Indiana; Norway
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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature

By: Andrew A. King and Michael W. Toffel
Scholars of management have long considered how institutions can help resolve market imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Advantage
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  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Devtosh Khare

with the herd and went into banking." But after two years working 100-hour weeks as an investment analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation (DLJ) in Los Angeles, he decided that "moving money around is not what life... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

investment banking. At HBS he teaches the course Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring in the MBA and Executive Education Programs. He also chairs the executive program Finance for Senior Executives and has taught in the Advanced... View Details
  • March 1995 (Revised March 1995)
  • Case

Smashing the Cube: Corporate Transformation at CIBA-GEIGY Ltd.

By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
CIBA-GEIGY is a large, diversified multinational corporation that transforms itself in the 1990s through a massive structural and cultural change. The case describes the changes implemented and the processes used to effect change in portfolio, people, and structures.... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Change Management; Transformation; Investment Portfolio; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy
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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Harvard’s MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, and founder of HBS’s Startup Bootcamp. Kerr is unit head of Entrepreneurial Management and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures Program in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie