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Founded in 1999, Root Capital had loaned $150 million to nearly 250 small and growing businesses, mainly in Latin America. In 2009, as the organization launched a five-year, $55 million capital campaign, it had to determine a strategic path going forward in keeping... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Capital; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Latin America

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01 Mar 2004
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Warren Law Remembered

baeaf807ff44b783a02acf3d1d6a1e8a Warren A. Law, the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, died at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, in December. He was 79 years old. “Warren Law... View Details

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

20 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting

parallel universes. Large, unexplained gaps—more than $100 billion—have developed between the profits reported to capital markets and to tax authorities. These discrepancies can no longer be explained by accepted differences between the... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

01 Mar 2007
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Courting the Poor

they can look at images of it on the computer from every angle. The employees teach people how to use the computer and let them come back to surf the Internet. It’s not about offloading work to the customer; it’s about treating them with dignity.” Magazine Luiza has... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; department stores; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

2009
Working Paper

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front payment before people receive any benefits... View Details

Keywords: Age; Annuities; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Saving; Retirement

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17 Sep 2024
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The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

Global Capitalism. This second-year course provides cases on entrepreneurs from many countries who were active in pursuits ranging from luxury watches to fashion, beauty, shipping, finance and information and communications technologies.... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

and moving to the cloud to better financing options, benefits needs, and leadership issues. Many of the solutions have come from experts (from companies like HP, Staples, GoDaddy, and Intuit) who have appeared in SBD’s publications, who... View Details

June 2011
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Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes

This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the cost to U.S. multinationals of accessing a source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Performance Effectiveness; Code Law; Taxation; Cost; Capital; Financial Strategy; Research and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

stages is because smart people are looking at the same data. "You've got big companies that are addressing wide markets and there are gaps in the product portfolio," he said. "Engineers and product developers leave those... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

market. “Many summer internships were canceled,” explains Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), managing director of HBS’s Career & Professional Development (CPD). “Graduating students who already had job offers saw their start dates delayed,... View Details

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larger role was to manage the developments themselves. A property in midtown Manhattan became the 20-story Wyndham-branded hotel with 92 rooms; a second property in SoHo became a 120-room Courtyard by Marriott. In between, Richard took on... View Details

May 2021 (Revised September 2021)
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CPE and SUS Environmental: You've Got to Know When to Hold 'Em

By: Josh Lerner and Franko Jira

In July 2016, Di Yang and Grace Guo of the leading Chinese private equity group CPE faced a dilemma—a happy dilemma, but a challenge nonetheless. CPE’s investment in the waste-to-energy firm SUS Environment had proved to be exceedingly successful. This success had... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment Return; Growth and Development

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company, where he launched and led their cloud strategy, products, and services. He was a member of the board and executive team that raised multiple rounds of financing and spun out smartShift Inc. He led 350+ people, on-boarded hundreds... View Details

Keywords: Aviation & Aerospace;#13;#Biotech & Life Sciences;#20;#Ecommerce;#24;#Electronics & Hardware;#28;#Energy, Oil, Renewables, & Environment;#31;#Finance;#37;#Gaming;#45;#Insurance;#58;#Real Estate & Housing;#64;#Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

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Margaret Busse Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services... View Details

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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2024 IFC India 2024 - View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

Taking in Business, Investing, and Life by Karen Firestone (MBA 1983) (Bibliomotion) Firestone has developed four core tenets of risk-taking that are applicable when anticipating, evaluating, and responding to risks in business,... View Details

August 2021 (Revised April 2022)
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KKR

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo

In June of 2021, KKR’s executive team convened to prepare for an upcoming board meeting. From a small, three-person partnership that started in 1976 and invested only in U.S. LBOs, the firm 45 years later was a public company that employed over 1,600 people and managed... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Public Equity; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Profit; Strategy; Finance; Private Equity; United States

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