Impact Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Feb 2022
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Holding Business to Account

Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston, to discuss an... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good

experience to her current position as chief investment officer at ImpactAssets, a $120 million donor-advised fund that invests capital for social and environmental impact... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Expressions of Support

put to use immediately where they are most needed, whether to support financial aid, educational innovation, global understanding, or pathbreaking research. Support for the HBS Fund enables the School to invest in new ideas and... View Details

09 Feb 2015
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Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)

John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947) – business leader, community collaborator, prominent philanthropist, education visionary – died February 7 at age 92. During a long and lauded career, Whitehead guided Goldman Sachs to the forefront of global View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal

(MBA ’81), recently established a fellowship fund. “I hope our fellowship will inspire someone who has demonstrated strong leadership skills to come to HBS to refine those skills,” she said. Fellowship Dinner The significant impact that... View Details

Keywords: HBS; MBA; Fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Nov 2017
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SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

hoisted into place. The celebration included remarks by Faust, Nohria, and Walsh; demonstrations of new technologies being developed by SEAS students; and a panel discussion on the impact of the SEAS move and Harvard’s expanding science... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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HBS Records an “Excellent” Year

$9 million on the strength of higher circulation and foreign edition royalties for Harvard Business Review; growth in sales of cases, teaching materials, and HBS Press books; and expansion of HBSP’s eLearning business. Another year of strong View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home

platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset... View Details

16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice

change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” The Schott... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2023
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Making Dreams Attainable

backgrounds, and viewpoints have the opportunity to attend HBS, pursue their passions, and realize their promise, even if they have limited means. Alumni and friends who give to HBS, including those who give annually to the HBS Fund, are making an View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose

through teaching the course that I’ve come to believe that corporations have to think beyond their own boundaries to a broader concern with the health of the institutions on which we all rely. In the second year I taught the course with Clayton Rose, who had worked as... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

14 Jun 2018
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Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa

impact investing was doing in other parts of the world, and we thought that it would be a very good trend to bring back investing to Africa, given what else was going on. “At... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Funding His Purpose

of directly making loans, the organization provides the infrastructure for crowd-sourced loans and investments to both nonprofit and for-profit positive impact companies. “Our board complains that we’re... View Details

16 Aug 2022
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HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

Japan Fellowship lit the fire for me. Now I want to light other candles.” The HBS Japan Fellowship relies entirely on contributions from alumni for its funding. One such donor, Thierry Porte (MBA 1982), calls the fellowship “an investment... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

national parks. There’s nothing like it. We explore nature, sleep in cramped quarters, make a mess, and have an amazing time.” “The work we do at JPMorgan Chase helps people invest for important life events, such as retirement or a... View Details

19 Aug 2019
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A New Purpose for the Corporation

but fraying," Business Roundtable chair Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982), said in a statement. "Major employers are investing in their workers and communities because they know it is the only way to be successful over the long term. These... View Details

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

I wonder how that anecdote was instructive to you. Steven Rogers: It was hugely impactful on how I view the circumstances, and that is—like Malcolm X and I learned from him—that you must be prepared for teachable moments and those... View Details

09 Nov 2021
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Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America

As part of a recent cover story in WIRED about Netflix’s racial equity pledge, the magazine spoke to the company’s human resources director, Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011), who led the project. The article notes that Mitchell helped craft the company’s approach, which... View Details

08 Oct 2020
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JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity

Communities; and accelerating investment in its employees and building a more diverse and inclusive workforce. JP Morgan Chase also announced a commitment of $2 billion over the next five years to “to drive an inclusive economic recovery... View Details

17 Apr 2019
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Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

tax” to mitigate the environmental impact of development through investment in conserving water-absorbing grasslands. Now the senior director of financing land conservation at View Details

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