Capital Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

arguments about whether sea level rise is human caused or even if it’s real; we just need to invest with the probabilities in mind the same way we make risk management decisions under uncertainty about interest rates, exchange rates, or... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

private capital sources," says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big risks and hoped for big rewards. The 1980s brought additional players... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of... View Details

Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection Point form meaningful partnerships... View Details

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15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

(MBA 2011). This year, the NextGen Angels, led by president Brett Gibson (MBA 2011), has invested further in its big idea: launching angel groups in New York (run by Kelsey Morgan [HBS 2011]), Chicago, Boston and Austin, growing to more... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

Profile

Brighton Mudzingwa

Business and Investment Club (HABIC), "an organization focused exclusively on exploring how business and investment capital can be used to propel economic development in... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria

explains Nwuneli. AACE’s product line includes spices, spreads, sauces, and other foods grown in Nigeria. The company is one of two ventures managed by the couple’s investment firm, Sahel Capital. The other is the $100 million Fund for... View Details

Web

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

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the latter half of the twentieth century , venture capital investment transformed groundbreaking technologies into sustainable enterprises and contributed to the... View Details

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

Business has long recognized the connection between an effective school system and a qualified workforce—by some estimates, the private sector invests $4 billion annually in efforts intended to improve public education. So why isn't that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Mar 2011
News

Tax and Grow

absence of investment opportunities or from indecision among corporate executives. Once such indecision becomes widespread, it can quickly become self-reinforcing. Recent record corporate profits will only exacerbate this situation. If... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Jun 2011
News

Faculty Books

Lecturer Robert Pozen and his coauthor detail how mutual funds are marketed, regulated, and invested in stocks and bonds. They describe the critical factors needed to choose a specific fund, including what to look for when reading... View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

Profile

Mark Gundersen

school. For the first time in my life, I saw firsthand the power of capital to transform lives." When he returned to Williams after the summer, he considered going directly into nonprofits upon graduation. "But my mentor advised... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)

Address label: Born outside Cleveland, Ohio, Chen grew up in California and Texas before attending Emory University in Georgia, where she majored in business. “My three siblings live in New York now, and I’ll be working there this summer, so that feels closest to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Leah Fasten; climate finance; MBA; student life

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

October 2014 Quarterly Journal of Economics Waves in Ship Prices and Investment By: Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Abstract—We study the link between investment boom and bust cycles and returns on... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Richard H. Jenrette

for the firm. Jenrette was instrumental in taking the company public in 1970 making it the first publicly traded investment firm in the United States. Taking the helm of DLJ in 1973, Jenrette shepherded it through the recession. His... View Details

Keywords: Finance

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

with studies of immigration's impact for the public sector of host countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-013.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbraaj Capital Harvard Business School Case 809-008 Abraaj View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Development Corp. in 1946, there's a history of the venture capital industry. Not many other countries have this history nor the large-scale investment role models. But now with the Internet wave, it's as if... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Gil Addo

The Huffington Post named RubiconMD one of the “Five Companies Defining the Future of Healthcare” and, in 2020, AllianceBernstein ranked RubiconMD number 12 on its list of the top 25 private companies disrupting healthcare. The company raised over $40 million in View Details

Keywords: Digital Health

13 May 2013
News

Alex Popa, MBA 2007

School’s Young Leaders Program, which encourages contributions from young alumni by lowering the giving threshold for certain funds. Although his career path since HBS has been in investment management, Popa, a vice president at the Los... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Insatiably Curious

acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, and then to private equity, asset allocation, and now, to leading operations. Ma recently was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Index Ventures, a 25-year-old international venture capital firm. “We... View Details

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