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- October 1969 (Revised January 1978)
- Background Note
Capital Investment Analysis: Chapter 13
Dearden, John. "Capital Investment Analysis: Chapter 13." Harvard Business School Background Note 169-020, October 1969. (Revised January 1978.)
- January 2023
- Teaching Note
Mellody Hobson at Ariel Investments
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Rachel Tropp
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 419-041. View Details
- October 2019
- Teaching Note
Blackstone's GSO Capital: Crosstex Investment
By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-008. View Details
- December 2016
- Case
Blue Sky: Investing in Water
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Dawn H. Lau
Keywords: Australia
Reinhardt, Forest L., and Dawn H. Lau. "Blue Sky: Investing in Water." Harvard Business School Case 717-017, December 2016.
- February 2016
- Teaching Note
Hon Hai's Investment in Sharp
By: Mihir A. Desai, Keith Chi-ho Wong and Zachary D. Markovich
- 1981
- Working Paper
Competitive Structure in Investment Banking
By: S. L. Hayes III, Michael A. Spence and David van P. Marks
Hayes, S. L., III, Michael A. Spence, and David van P. Marks. "Competitive Structure in Investment Banking." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 82-66, September 1981.
- May 2004
- Teaching Note
Valuing Capital Investment Projects (TN)
By: W. Carl Kester
Teaching Note to (9-298-092). View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
Photo by iStock Investors in global equity markets have traditionally hedged their bets, casting their investments far and wide across the world. That way, if the market in one country or region stagnated (think Japan in the 1990s or... View Details
- February 2024
- Article
Investing in Long-Term Health
By: Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Investing in Long-Term Health." e240193. JAMA Health Forum 5, no. 2 (February 2024).
- Article
Should Multinationals Invest in Africa?
By: John A. Quelch and James E. Austin
Quelch, John A., and James E. Austin. "Should Multinationals Invest in Africa?" MIT Sloan Management Review 34, no. 3 (Spring 1993): 107–119.
- November 1984
- Article
Corporate Investments in Common Stock
By: W. Mikkelson and R. S. Ruback
Mikkelson, W., and R. S. Ruback. "Corporate Investments in Common Stock." Seminar on the Analysis of Security Prices, Proceedings 29, no. 2 (November 1984): 179–209.
- October 2011 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Yale University Investments Office: February 2011
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments—hedge funds, private equity, real estate—given the impact of the recent market turmoil. The case explores the risks... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Resource Allocation; Investment; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Property; Private Equity
Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Yale University Investments Office: February 2011." Harvard Business School Case 812-062, October 2011. (Revised March 2013.)
- November 1974 (Revised December 1991)
- Case
Foreign Investment in Canada (A)
By: Bruce R. Scott and Audrey T. Sproat
Scott, Bruce R., and Audrey T. Sproat. "Foreign Investment in Canada (A)." Harvard Business School Case 375-133, November 1974. (Revised December 1991.)
- December 2008
- Article
Style Investing and Institutional Investors
By: Kenneth A. Froot and Melvyn Teo
This paper explores institutional investors' trades in stocks grouped by style and the relationship of these trades with equity market returns. It aggregates transactions drawn from a large universe of approximately $6 trillion of institutional funds. To analyze style... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Personal Characteristics; Financial Services Industry
Froot, Kenneth A., and Melvyn Teo. "Style Investing and Institutional Investors." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 43, no. 4 (December 2008): 883–906. (Revised from: Equity Style Returns and Institutional Investor Flows, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 04-048, June 2004.)
- August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
- Background Note
Fundamental Enterprise Valuation: Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
A technical note that defines return on invested capital (ROIC). View Details
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Fundamental Enterprise Valuation: Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-125, August 2000. (Revised July 2002.)
- October 1999
- Case
CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (A): 1987-1992
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Raynor
In 1992, CIBC CEO Al Flood faced the short-term operational challenge of saving Wood Gundy, the troubled investment bank CIBC had purchased five years earlier. At the same time he had to tackle the long-term strategic challenge of integrating Gundy's investment banking... View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Banks and Banking; Corporate Strategy; Integration; Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Banking Industry
Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Raynor. "CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (A): 1987-1992." Harvard Business School Case 300-041, October 1999.
- 1993
- Chapter
Foreign Direct Investment in Semiconductors
By: D. B. Yoffie
Yoffie, D. B. "Foreign Direct Investment in Semiconductors." In Foreign Direct Investment, edited by K. Froot, 197–230. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
- September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 310-011, September 2009. (Revised May 2011.)