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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

semester-long FIELD Global Immersion course, resulting in a refund to students. IT Investment (in millions, excludes capital expenses) FY 21 $90 FY 20 96 FY 19 87 FY 18 82 FY 17 85 View Details

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

define corporate transparency as the quantity and quality of information a company provides its various constituents including shareholders and other capital providers, suppliers, customers, employees, etc. In this paper, we measure this... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

million, compared with $158 million in the prior year. Cash giving to the endowment increased to $82 million from $81 million in fiscal 2023. Cash giving for capital projects totaled $2 million in fiscal 2024, compared with $3 million in... View Details

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

first truly comprehensive endowment management vehicle offered under the TIFF banner. The recent large capital losses suffered by most endowments, including those of Harvard and Yale, had motivated some to question the two basic premises... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

outside directors with more expertise and experience. Also, busy directors are less likely to serve on multiple committees, possibly to avoid being overloaded. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51853 Cost of Experimentation and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

service. They each provided alternative visions of the world. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317100-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-022 Altoona State Investment Board & Bain View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2011
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Four-Letter Word

lot of sound and fury that, it turns out, really doesn’t signify much at all. That’s because David Miller (MBA ’03), the Treasury Department’s former chief investment officer for TARP, helped preside over “a steady and, so far, profitable... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 1998
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Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS

1969 as an oil analyst. He was named director of research in 1971 and became head of the firm's investment banking division in 1979. Appointed chairman of DLJ 's capital markets group in 1984, Chalsty became... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

Art by Brian Taylor As an HBS doctoral student and recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, George Serafeim (DBA ’10) coauthored the paper “The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details

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Africa - Global Activities 2020

Africa Africa Fellowship Enables Alumni to Accelerate Economic Growth in Africa Pictured: Peak Investment Capital in Ghana works with companies such as Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt to help further their success... View Details

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807111 OuterLink Corp. (A) Harvard Business School Case 806-059 Zero Stage Capital is addressing a troubled investment in OuterLink Corp., which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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 management activities, Guichard... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model

fellowships and professorships — by their donors. Current-use gifts to the HBS Fund provide an annual influx of funds that can be spent immediately. “As HBS has made strategic investments in recent years, gifts to the HBS Fund have... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Global Mission

topic: the global manager. Our lead story recounts how HBS developed a unique research and teaching approach to address the rise of globalization. Since the mid-1990s, the School has established a network of seven far-flung research centers to facilitate the creation... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

01 Mar 2009
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HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

centers. The intellectual capital generated by this research is transformed into programs and products offered in a competitive marketplace by Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). The income generated by these twin... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Jun 2014
Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

sold at the World Cup will likely generate only around $160 million dollars, at the average price of $100 per ticket. If one were to compare potential profits, FIFA would likely come out even better than BP or Toyota. Some of its costs and View Details

Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

performance. Specifically, one example of the latter would be “their progress increasing their investment staffs’ diversity.” All of this may lead us to agree with Leo Vagho when he said: “To expect corporate leaders to solely advance a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Brandon Farwell

Brandon Farwell is a General Partner at Xfund. Prior to Xfund, he was an Investment Professional at DFJ focused on software investments including Box (NYSE: BOX), Yammer (acq., MSFT), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO),... View Details

Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)

01 Jun 2009
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IXP 2009

and post-IXP surveys indicate that students are more than satisfied with the program. “Getting global exposure was a top priority for my time in B-School,” wrote one participant. “HBS’s investment in these programs is a truly outstanding... View Details