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  • 28 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

their new working paper Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm? Vallée and Yao Zeng, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Washington, address these issues from the perspective of what platforms can do to level the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (230) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition

political) are favorable. Market need, size of opportunity, competitive landscape, and potential risks are identified and manageable. Resources The funding plan is sensible in terms of capital required to launch and operate. Funding... View Details
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. Unfortunately, there is little evidence about the validity of these ratings. We examine how well two of the most widely used ratings—those of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Rick Grinnell

    Rick Grinnell is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, focused on investing in AI-enabled security and enterprise infrastructure. As an experienced venture capitalist and operator, Rick has View Details
    • 01 Dec 2012
    • News

    Kaplan Named Senior Associate Dean

    Robert S. Kaplan, a professor of management practice, has been named Senior Associate Dean for External Relations, joining Professor William A. Sahlman in that role. Kaplan also serves as faculty chair of campaign planning for the upcoming HBS View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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    Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Filter Results: (230) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2003
    • News

    HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

    its commitment to transparency at a time when the School is involved in a $500 million capital campaign. It also highlights the School’s unusual business model. Unlike most schools, HBS does not accept government and third-party faculty... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 30 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

    Opportunities abound for large companies looking to expand into Latin America. But risks remain, and the development of better capital markets is needed to attract more investment, according to panelists at the "Growth Opportunities... View Details
    Keywords: by Julie Jette
    • 31 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 31

    investment pioneer Tsing Capital was planning for the China Environment Fund IV and considering how to maintain its commitment to social and environmental practices. Tsing View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Apr 2001
    • What Do You Think?

    Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

    pieces on a chessboard. It assumes that the most deserving dot.coms will get financed or bought. The question is, are the venture capital or strategic investment markets as perfect as the stock market? In... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 23 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 23

    Drama William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen MantyHarvard Business School Case 312-025 Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Spring 2021
    • Article

    Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19

    By: Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim and Hui (Stacie) Wang
    The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; COVID-19; Coronavirus; Crisis Response Plans; Crisis; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Big Data; Machine Learning; Investor Behavior; Institutional Investors; Corporate Performance; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Human Capital; Supply Chain; Operations; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Institutional Investing; Performance
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    • 01 Jun 2009
    • News

    Inside the Partnership

    juggernaut.” While much has changed for Goldman and other investment firms in the last year, its rise to prominence — driven by extraordinary individuals — is a matter of record. The following excerpts from The Partnership look at two of... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
    • 01 Dec 2018
    • News

    Hard Choices

    cofounder of the global investment firm GMO, recently observed in the context of governmental inaction on climate change, “We face a form of capitalism that has hardened its focus to short-term profit... View Details
    Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
    • 19 Apr 2018
    • Blog Post

    Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

    the summer and worked at Schulze Global Investments in Ethiopia, the country’s first private equity fund. I specifically wanted to see, in a country with a banking system off-limits to foreign investment and... View Details
    • 15 Nov 2021
    • News

    Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

    Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959) Two institutions completely changed the life of Charles P. Waite, says Patti Waite Bishop about her late father, a venture capital pioneer and founding partner at Greylock Management: the US Army and Harvard... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2025
    • News

    Open Canvas

    People told Dinesh Vazirani (MBA 1994) he was crazy. In 2000, he and his wife, Minal, cofounded Saffronart, an online auction house focused primarily on Indian art. With internet penetration in India low at the time, Vazirani traveled the world to conduct physical... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • 19 Jun 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: June 19, 2007

    investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon pipeline, $6 billion Iridium global satellite telecommunications system, $900 million A2 Toll Road in Poland, $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum smelter in Mozambique, and $20 billion Sakhalin II... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Profile

    Amy Sennett

    especially for the poorest of the poor at the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid.” As vice chair of the Club’s Microfinance and Social Investment Group, she “looks at ways global capital can flow to places... View Details