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- April 2018
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Celgene
By: Malcolm Baker and Emily R. McComb
In February 2011, Adam Koppel, a Managing Director at Brookside Capital, the public equity arm of Bain Capital, must decide whether to increase or exit the firm’s position in Celgene Corporation. News has emerged that raises potential safety concerns associated with... View Details
- February 2018 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Wellington Global Impact
By: Shawn Cole and Lynn Schenk
Wellington Global Impact is one of the first public equities impact investing strategies in the market. The case explores how the strategy was developed at Wellington, including an analysis of the culture that supported its development. It also explores the difficulty... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Impact Investing; Investment; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Analysis
Cole, Shawn, and Lynn Schenk. "Wellington Global Impact." Harvard Business School Case 218-067, February 2018. (Revised October 2018.)
- 27 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms
- Article
Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment
By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Market Transactions; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Risk and Uncertainty; Networks; Culture; Complexity; Public Administration Industry
Alcacer, Juan, and Paul Ingram. "Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment." American Journal of Sociology 118, no. 4 (January 2013).
- April 14, 2017
- Article
Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It
By: John A. Deighton
United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first in the wake of a video 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... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Training; Air Transportation Industry
Deighton, John A. "Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 14, 2017).
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
actually have the property, how do we achieve what we outlined in our busines plan and make it successful?” he said. “Doing property tours and talking with portfolio managers and senior leaders, you get a good sense of what the real... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 2010
- Working Paper
Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
By: Robert C. Feenstra, Robert E. Lipsey, Lee G. Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, James Harrigan, J. Bradford Jensen, Lori Kletzer, Catherine Mann, Peter K. Schott and Greg C. Wright
This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Price; Globalization; Policy; Information; Intellectual Property
Feenstra, Robert C., Robert E. Lipsey, Lee G. Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, James Harrigan, J. Bradford Jensen, Lori Kletzer, Catherine Mann, Peter K. Schott, and Greg C. Wright. "Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16254, August 2010.
- August 2022
- Case
Southwick Social Ventures
By: Henry McGee, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team had found a promising potential investment in Southwick Social Ventures (SSV), a worker and management-owned trouser manufacturer. With a 100% immigrant workforce, the co-operative was focused on reviving... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts
McGee, Henry, Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Southwick Social Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 323-011, August 2022.
- 21 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that $150 billion or so of annual... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 2017
- Report
The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors
By: Laura Huang, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson and Elaine Bolle
Early-stage financing from angel investors is critical to the success of high-growth startups. Recent estimates suggest that annual US angel investment activity may total as much as $24 billion each year, contributing to the growth and success of more than 64,000... View Details
Keywords: Angel Investors; Geography; Risk; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Demographics; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Huang, Laura, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson, and Elaine Bolle. "The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors." Report, Overland Park, KS, November 2017.
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
and Syria; to the south is the booming Saudi Arabian metropolis of Jeddah. In front of me is a vast expanse of sand and hope, fueled by a huge investment towards a brand new city the size of Washington, DC. I can see intermittent puffs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
Business needs to care about the performance of students in the public education system, from preschool through college. It is the primary source of future employees for every business. It’s also where the vast majority of teachers of... View Details
- 27 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages
- 2013
- Working Paper
These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System
By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the ownership structure... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Balance and Stability; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Society; Economics; Banking Industry; Mexico
Haber, Stephen, and Aldo Musacchio. "These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-062, January 2013. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18713, January 2013.)
- Web
Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Bibliography | Manuscript Collections | Trade Publications Trade Publications Historical Collections at Baker Library contains long runs of dozens of rare or ephemeral... View Details
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
OpenInvest
By: Shawn Cole, Boris Vallée and Nicole Tempest Keller
Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolios to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Investment Portfolio; Customization and Personalization; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
Cole, Shawn, Boris Vallée, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "OpenInvest." Harvard Business School Case 218-064, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- 2012
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper examines the creation of the global natural food and beauty categories before 2000. This is shown to have been a lengthy process of new category creation involving the exercise of entrepreneurial imagination. Pioneering entrepreneurs faced little... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Consumer Goods; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Food; Globalization; Business History; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America
Jones, Geoffrey. "Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-024, August 2012.
- July–August 2013
- Article
Complementary Goods: Creating, Capturing, and Competing for Value
By: Taylan Yalcin, Elie Ofek, Oded Koenigsberg and Eyal Biyalogorsky
This paper studies the strategic interaction between firms producing strictly complementary products. With strict complements, a consumer derives positive utility only when both products are used together. We show that value-capture and value-creation problems arise... View Details
Yalcin, Taylan, Elie Ofek, Oded Koenigsberg, and Eyal Biyalogorsky. "Complementary Goods: Creating, Capturing, and Competing for Value." Marketing Science 32, no. 4 (July–August 2013): 554–569.