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- March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles
By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California
Eccles, Robert G., and Aldo Sesia. "CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles." Harvard Business School Case 409-054, March 2009. (Revised October 2009.)
- November 2010 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
Washout: The Founders' Tale and the Investors' Tale
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. Carr
The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored in the context of Kalashian v. Advent VI Ltd. a California Superior Court case. The founders of the company, which produced switches for computer... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Managerial Roles; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry
Goldberg, Lena G., and Chad M. Carr. "Washout: The Founders' Tale and the Investors' Tale." Harvard Business School Case 311-078, November 2010. (Revised November 2017.)
- 04 Mar 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do People Want to Work Anymore?
“As I hung up the phone, I began to wonder whether it was déjà vu or whether things really have changed.” Then recently, within hours of one another, I had two similarly contrasting experiences. It happened while I was in California... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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navigate and excel in the business school environment. [...] WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 04 Mar 2025 | California - Bay Area Student & Alumni Stories Student Clubs Technology US West For... View Details
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Curriculum - Case Method Project
hinges on a decision of whether to adopt an “Australian Ballot,” or secret ballot, in California in 1891. Coverage: 1830s – 1891; machine politics; Tammany Hall; political corruption; history of voting; transformation of American... View Details
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2018
- HBS Seminar
William F. Maloney, World Bank, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Publications 2006 Regional Studies Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract—We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Global Research Centers - Faculty & Research
Africa Research Center Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi Asia-Pacific Research Center Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore California Research Center Silicon Valley Europe Research Center Paris India Research Center Mumbai Israel Research Office Tel... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
pandemic lockdowns in her California home, thinking about this happiness problem, Brooks says. One of her windows into the subject became Brooks’ columns in The Atlantic, focused weekly on the science of happiness, as well as his 2022... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 13 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The ‘IKEA Effect’: When Labor Leads to Love
- Winter 2020
- Article
The Sky above and the Mud below: Two Books about Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was the most charismatic businessperson in the modern era. When he died, on October 5, 2011, Apple was inundated with condolence messages from all over the United States and from around the world. These notes were sent not only to Apple headquarters in... View Details
Tedlow, Richard S. "The Sky above and the Mud below: Two Books about Steve Jobs." Business History Review 94, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 835–852. (Review essay.)
Amy W. Schulman
Amy W. Schulman joined Harvard Business School’s Faculty as a Senior Lecturer in July 2014.
In addition to her responsibilities at Harvard, Ms. Schulman is a managing partner at Polaris Partners, who focuses on investing in healthcare... View Details
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Find a Club - Alumni
2004 Mrs. Ebony Simone Morczinek, MBA 2007 HBS Association of Hong Kong President Ms. Jolie Chow, MBA 2010 HBS Association of New Zealand President Dr. Claudia U. Wyss, MBA 2005 HBS Association of Nigeria President Mr. Collins Onuegbu, OPM 40, 2010 HBS Association of... View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
be.” — Admiral James Stockdale. In August, while most developed nations’ rates of COVID-19 infections are falling, the rate in the United States continues to rise. States that had reopened or begun to, such as California and Texas, have... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
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Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
California Wine Cluster, and the Silicon Valley Technology Cluster. Cluster Initiatives Cluster development initiatives are an important new direction in economic policy. Building on past efforts in macroeconomic stabilization,... View Details
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Case Development - Faculty & Research
regional research centers ( Asia-Pacific , California , Europe , India , Japan , Latin America , Harvard Center Shanghai , and Istanbul). Baker Library’s extensive business collection and specialist librarians comprise another invaluable... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
PublicationsCollective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History Authors:Michel Anteby and Virag Molnar Publication:Academy of Management Journal (in press) Abstract Much organizational identity research has grappled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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6% Texas 5% 4% 4% 5% 4% Other Southwest <1% 1% <1% 2% 2% West (US) 25% 22% 24% 16% 17% California - Bay Area 15% 13% 15% 9% 11% California - Los Angeles Area 6% 5% 5% 4% 3% Pacific Northwest 3% 4% 4% 2% 2%... View Details