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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Internet service. The space also houses some historical treasures for the School, including the Written Analysis of Cases slot; the Baker 20 case distribution center; a rendering of the original Baker Library stacks and grille; and an original booth from the New York... View Details

February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
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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

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

companies and is adjacent to the Harvard i-lab and Launch Lab. The first floor consists of 50 coworking spaces designed to be family friendly with a fully stocked kitchen, office supply center, conference rooms, lockers, filing cabinets,... View Details

16 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

"should" items when the impact will be felt in the future. They also talk about their related research on DVD rentals—should I rent the good-for-me documentary An Inconvenient Truth or the entertaining Pirates of the Caribbean—and View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

services in 1994, it spun off Lehman Brothers through a public stock offering, trading on the New York and Pacific stock exchanges, as Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. Richard “Dick” Fuld, who had overseen the... View Details

07 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

Business School. How managers and employees benefit Using transcripts from earnings conference calls held by Standard & Poor’s 1500 companies, the researchers looked for managers who turned to colleagues for input. Conference calls, the researchers say, are likely... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

20 Dec 2023
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has invested in the foundations of this relationship. He has focused on service to employees and stakeholder communities, increasing the company’s minimum wage to $15 in 2015 and overseeing a historic gift of about $200 million in stock... View Details

12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, I offer a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

Topics Good for finding… Suggested Resources Company Research Data and background information for stock pitching prep Basic valuation metrics Strength and Weaknesses of the company (SWOT analysis) Lists (screening) and... View Details

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

the month" motivate higher performance? Not really—and they may turn off your best employees altogether. Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill Everyone comes to the table with some amount of "altruistic capital," a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

and stock different kinds of trousers. Ortega offers new answers And so it is with inequality measures as well: In our analyses of data from the United States, we show that the Gini coefficient—while often a... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

08 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

Amazon officials understandably figured that the prize it offered New Yorkers would sell itself: 25,000+ jobs paying in excess of $100,000 each with all the ancillary economic benefits. Decide (on Long Island City, Queens), Announce (the... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

differences between the attributes of stock issuers and repurchasers to shed light on characteristic-related mispricing. During years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms, for example, we show that large firms... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 May 2010
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What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

differences in leadership across task, culture, and identity. We don't offer a simple answer. Like any complex phenomena, scholars are in the earliest stages of beginning to understand the complexities of leadership. "What we think... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

05 Jul 2022
What Do You Think?

Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

distribution channel on overall inventory levels and costs. One thing that may have helped generate the HBS offer was an experiment I performed using my own crude version of what would become known as the “beer game.” In my approach, my... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

20 Jul 2011
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Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

the Renaissance, one of the most innovative eras in history. Put simply, innovative thinkers connect fields, problems, or ideas that others find unrelated. The other four discovery skills trigger associational thinking by helping innovators increase their View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks By: Campbell, John Y., Carolin E. Pflueger, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract—The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average... View Details