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- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Case 407-050 Gianna Angelopoulous-Daskalaki led the bidding organization that secured the 2004 Olympics for Athens and then later the preparations for those Games. Tracks her leadership style and how she and her team won the bid. After... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
market. We believe that much of private sector efforts will come through an enlightened approach involving partnerships. Government partners are essential for companies that may be attempting to build new markets where existing infrastructure is weak. In addition, to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
defensiveness, and also personal concerns about job security and/or mobility. These factors tend to be seen as applying across situations. For example, a person with greater communication skill might be more likely to speak up despite an... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
attributes such shortcomings to a prevailing "sense of entitlement" that's fostered in part by the absence of competitors. "You could make a good case that the very promise of job security is the first step in destroying... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
employee focus encouraged workers to recast themselves as leaders responsible for change, and they began offering innovative ideas for how to turn the company around. Within six months, HCL had secured a new $330 million contract, and by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active,... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-019.pdf Crowdsourcing Peer Firms: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Using Internet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
governance; market participants and security analysts were, until the beginning of the 2000s but not subsequently, more positively surprised by the earning announcements of good-governance firms; and, although governance indices no longer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
some of these things, to try and reach that point of security as soon as you can, basically, Byron says. It makes you way more likable, and I think generally will also make you approach relationships in just a much less self centered and... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
have done so much for others.” A young female hip-hop duo, La Reyna y La Real, after an impromptu concert in their living room, offer a heartfelt acknowledgment to CET for helping secure an appearance at a Kennedy Center Cuban arts... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
course, pay bills. Kourouma also notes that eliminating cash removes the security issues that go with it, especially for families overseas trying to send money back home—an increasingly large part of his company's business. "Now you can... View Details
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expertise of our faculty. BiGS Visiting Fellows Press Release Reunion Attendance 2,516 Spring MBA 1,579 Fall MBA 279 Executive Education 4,374 Total Attendance In Memoriam William “Billy” Connelly Operations, Securitas Security Jean... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
pension funds was infrastructure debt securities. Until recently, few Nigerian infrastructure securities had strong enough credit ratings to be investable by cautious pension funds. Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company (InfraCredit)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt announced their "grave concerns" about it in an unusual joint press release that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
several challenges, including securing funding for the organization. NatuRi had captured the attention of at least four potential investors willing to offer an investment. Its managers were challenged to weigh their options and to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
sponsorship. With respect to end users and complementors, decisions to open or close a mature platform involve 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations; 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements; or 3) absorbing... View Details
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Amram Migdal. "Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment." Harvard Business School Case 318-003, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
expert on student housing. None of that would have happened if I had not been fired in 1976. Jim Arbury (MBA 1966) VP for Student Housing National Multifamily Housing Council Growing out of business After a year of planning and negotiating, my partner and I... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract— Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-049 Securities Exchange Board of India: Developing and Regulating India's Capital Markets No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne