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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
technology. Private capital flows—debt finance, equity capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI)—became larger than current and past official capital flows. This new era of foreign capital mobility has also been characterized by low interest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
business. It’s produced by the External Relations Department at HBS. Our audio engineer is Craig McDonald. It is available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And if you could take a moment to rate and review... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
engineer is Craig McDonald. It is available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And if you could take a moment to rate and review us, we’d be grateful. For more information, or to find archived episodes, visit... View Details
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
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
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Amram Migdal. "Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment." Harvard Business School Case 318-003, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care By: Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger Abstract—In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
consistently thought things would go faster or slower; they just often misread the rate of change, and also the manner of change caught them by surprise many a time. Another thing frequently mentioned was the importance of partnerships,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
Online Advertising By: Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract—As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
independently from their parent organizations. Even in ventures with comparable staffing levels and start dates, those that had separated from the core business were more innovative and had higher market-penetration rates than those that... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
opposed to changing your character. One case that students consistently rate highly centers on a Harvard MBA who spent the first ten years of his career working at General Electric and other large companies and then eventually buying his... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
average compounded growth rate over that time has been about 22 percent. Acquisitions have been an important part of your growth strategy since the mid-1990s. How do you manage to fold an acquired firm into Li & Fung? To be bigger, we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
trained in agronomy and business, dispenses advice on everything from best practices to business ethics, while keeping track of growth rates and other performance measures with a smartphone app. This process also de-risks the loans in the... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
and banking crisis. The paper then explains how the crisis unraveled and describes the U.S. bailout of the Mexican government in 1995. Since the exchange rate crisis of December of 1994 then translated into a banking crisis in 1995, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
conservation. It currently has two high-tech submersibles rated to 1,000 meters and an elaborate new scientific vessel under construction. OceanX recently partnered with Michael Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) Bloomberg Philanthropies on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
the largest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China, but new cases have decreased sharply since then. As of May 25, only 16 new daily cases were reported, bringing the cumulative total number of cases to 11,206 and 267 deaths. This represents one of the... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
average length of hospital stay and mortality rate in teaching hospitals relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. Despite the anticipated nature of the cohort turnover and the supervisory structures that exist in teaching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
founders may feel that their cash-poor ventures will gain more from having a lower burn rate than they would gain personally from having higher compensation. On the other hand, the higher level of psychological attachment introduces an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
she says, noting that Brazil offers incentives in the form of discounted transmission rates for biomass-generated electricity. (Brazil is almost entirely independent of fossil fuels, relying primarily on hydroelectric energy for its grid... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
interviews and insights from across the world of business. It’s produced by the External Relations Department at HBS. Our audio engineer is Craig McDonald. It’s available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And If you could take a moment to... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
invest outside the country and immigration rates to rise. Is the immigration trend related to the growing number of Western-educated Chinese? Over 300,000 Chinese students enrolled in various US colleges and universities last year.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg