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Hamilton Hall | About
residential facility. As renovated, Hamilton has 72 rooms with private baths, 6 full-service kitchens, well-appointed conference rooms, and a large lounge. During the project, 97 percent of construction waste was reused or recycled, and... View Details
- June 2025
- Case
From Single Stock to Diversified Portfolio: Mastercard Foundation's $42 Billion Asset Management Launch
By: Luis M. Viceira and Justin Cohen
This case examines the decision of the Mastercard Foundation in 2023 to divest its holdings of Mastercard stock, its only asset since inception in 2006 and worth $42 billion in early 2024, and to invest the proceeds in a newly designed diversified portfolio. To this... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Selection and Staffing; Risk Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Motivation and Incentives
Viceira, Luis M., and Justin Cohen. "From Single Stock to Diversified Portfolio: Mastercard Foundation's $42 Billion Asset Management Launch." Harvard Business School Case 225-096, June 2025.
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
explores dysfunctional dynamics, adversarial, and politically charged relationships, and those that are harmful to well-being. Evocative constructs are leveraged, including secrets, betrayals, anthropomorphism, lying, infidelity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Dean’s House | About
Baker Library to allow room for future structures. HBS Deans lived at the house until 1980, when it came to be used primarily for social functions. Dean Nitin Nohria revived the in-residence tradition when he was named Dean in 2010. About... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
social categories (gender, tenure within the firm). In dyad-level models of the probability that pairs of individuals communicate, we find very large effects of formal organization structure and spatial collocation on the rate of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details
- 23 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
after undergrad. But Gupta also spent several years at the Pratham Education Foundation, one of India’s largest educational nonprofits—work that earned him a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for social enterprise leadership at HBS. Mahajan,... View Details
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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and public outrage. It had learned years earlier in a prominent case about how fast viral content spreads and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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In my research historical inquiry plays an important part in understanding the continuities from the pre-1949 past and the complex convergence of business institutions in the process of China’s current economic, political, and social modernization. Historians are able... View Details
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
Change at Fuerte Construction Featured Exercises Small group process analysis Peer feedback exercise 10-12 hrs Module 2 Shaping the Decision-Making Process Analyze the decision-making process and evaluate potential drivers and pitfalls.... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
liberating, creatively and personally. “We had this charismatic appeal, this raw authenticity, but we didn’t have the cultural or social capital to access those worlds and people weren’t exactly excited about opening the doors for us, for... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50562 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory McDonald, and Emily Cox Pahnke... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
making a generous gift to the School to facilitate the construction of a new MBA campus center, scheduled for completion by the summer of 2000. The gift extends long-standing, close ties between the Spangler family and HBS. Both Dick... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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Research Design - Impact Investments
firms. Focus Area 1 The first focus area for the project is specifying the universe of impact investors and their portfolio companies. We define impact investors to be investors with the explicit dual objective of generating social good... View Details
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
minorities, according to research that involved surveying hundreds of people and studying thousands of datasets at government and social organizations. This pattern can “fuel a self-perpetuating cycle of segregation,” which may not only... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
Alpha, and the World of Hedge Funds Going to Extremes: Activist Investing at TCI Arbitrage and Global Macro Quantitative Hedge Fund Investing Putting It All Together - Constructing a Hedge Fund Portfolio Featured Exercises Calculate alpha... View Details
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Morris Hall | About
percent of MBA students live on campus, taking advantage of the proximity to classes, extensive academic and social resources, and opportunities for peer learning. About the Name Morris Hall is one of seven buildings named for secretaries... View Details