Publications

March 2001 (Revised June 2001)
Case

Identifying and Realizing Investments in Eastern Europe (A)

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Robert E. Kennedy and Laure Mougeot Strook

A Greek milling firm wants to invest in Eastern Europe. The case explores the firm's search strategy and its due diligence process after a potential investment, and considers how the company should structure its bid. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Financial Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe

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07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

a cab (Uber). It seems as if millennials would prefer to avoid face-to-face business interactions when there exists a more efficient way of getting what they want accomplished. “Having gone through the Great Recession, they tend to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy return on investment. But take a cue from smart science-based businesses, which view the recession as an opportunity to stoke up research and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

06 Jun 2016
News

Your Investment Tool Is Failing You

10 Feb 2015
News

Managing family businesses

12 Feb 2015
Video

Philanthropy 2.0: Investing with a Purpose

16 Jul 2020
News

Q&A: Harvard impact investing expert on proposed ESG rule

Web

Reflecting on the Inaugural Investing for Impact Elective Course | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

February 2013 (Revised November 2016)
Case

Assured Guaranty

By: Robin Greenwood, Adi Sunderam and Jared Dourdeville

Nate Katz at Yokun Ridge Capital Management is evaluating an investment in Assured Guaranty, a municipal bond insurance company that is trading at a discount to book value. View Details

Keywords: Value Investing; Investments; Valuation; Insurance; Behavioral Finance; Financial Services Industry

May 2011
Background Note

Scale Effects, Network Effects, and Investment Strategy

By: Willy Shih

This technical note discusses scale economies, and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better business models. Some of the great business disasters of the dot.com bubble were companies that scaled their infrastructure without working through... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Investment; Price; Crisis Management; Network Effects; Multi-Sided Platforms; Strategy

May 2022 (Revised June 2022)
Case

Proposing to Redesign a Global Investment Bank

By: David G. Fubini

A major, NYC-based, global investment bank is looking to rethink its Systems strategy amid a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Your firm has served the client across most of its major geographies on a range of substantial Systems and IT efforts, but is facing... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Professional Services; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Digital Strategy; Presentations; Competitive Strategy; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY)

09 May 2022
Video

A New HBS Impact Investment Fund Run by Students is Launched

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance between these Kenyan farmers and American coffee drinkers... View Details

30 Nov 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU

Keywords: by Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

on my own journey this year with the Black Investment Club and reminded me why I was so determined to get this initiative off the ground before leaving HBS. BIRTH OF AN IDEA In the fall of 2019, during my second year of View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Jul 2020
Blog Post

A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

to also play an active role in addressing them. We are calling on our sponsors and other buy-side firms to evaluate their hiring and retention practices for the investing team, to be thoughtful as they bring... View Details

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

Investing: Emerging Trends in a Changing Landscape," a recent panel discussion hosted by Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative. They also touched on growing trends including venture philanthropy and social impact... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

August 2021
Case

BYJU’S: EdTech Giant Investing in Brick and Mortar

By: John J-H Kim and Rachna Tahilyani

The founder and CEO of BYJU’S, India’s largest edtech firm and one of the world’s most valuable edtech companies, is considering acquiring Aakash Educational Services (Aakash), one of India’s largest brick-and-mortar test-prep firms, for $1 billion. Is this a good... View Details

Keywords: Edtech; Business Strategy; Diversification; Investment; Acquisition; Education Industry; Asia; India; United States