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  • 07 Nov 2014
  • News

In partnership to support a mission

Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) serves as vice president and cochief investment officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. With business partner Kim Lew (MBA 1992), she View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

Investment Counsel, which became the largest privately owned, independent asset management firm in southern Africa. In 1988, he left Cape Town to start an international View Details
Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 16 Oct 2017
  • News

Take Time to Serve Others

Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a... View Details
  • July 2013
  • Article

Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity

By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the... View Details
Keywords: Technology Transfer; Innovation; Ethnic Networks; Patents; Diasporas; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Check In

KHP’s investment strategy, if at all? MD: This downturn is terrible for the travel business, to be sure, but it does create significant investment opportunities. Our strategy has always been to find an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hotels; COVID-19; real estate; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
  • Case

Note on Yield Conventions

By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
Describes the principal conventions used to report yields on debt instruments. View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Capital Markets; Asset Management; Reports; Conferences; Governing and Advisory Boards
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  • September 2007 (Revised November 2008)
  • Case

Sinopec: Refining its Strategy

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Julia Galef
China's oil industry, with majority ownership vested in the government, had engaged in an "equity oil" strategy for the past few years-acquiring equity interests in oil producing nations including Sudan, Angola, and Iran. Outside critics, however, suggested that the... View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Equity; Foreign Direct Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; State Ownership; Energy Industry; China
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  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

@Soldiers Field

(photo by Neal Hamberg) (photo by Neal Hamberg) Blue skies and sunshine welcomed over 2,000 alumni and guests to fall reunions, where the many offerings included a case discussion of “Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center” with Professor Rohit Deshpandé, a tour of... View Details
  • 12 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

League in the MIT Sloan Management Review. "As research on the National Football League reveals, sometimes the specific nature of a job determines whether a great performer at one company can replicate that performance at another," they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Linking Donors, Students

Lee Fellowship recipient Shamika Lee (MBA ’08) spoke at the MBA Fellowship Dinner in mid-April, an annual event where fellowship students and donors get to know each other. “On behalf of all the students here tonight, let me say that we do not take your View Details
Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management; Management
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

When ‘Business As Usual’ Is Anything But HBS students conduct field research at an optical store in Istanbul. “The logistical challenges are enormous. Everyone involved in FIELD is deeply invested in anticipating and solving problems... View Details
  • December 1998 (Revised July 2000)
  • Case

Implementing Strategies for Mobile Telephony: The Cases of BellSouth and U S WEST

By: Clayton M. Christensen
Recounts how BellSouth and US WEST developed and implemented their strategies for becoming major players in the mobile telephony business. Shows how initial success at BellSouth attracted more resources and aggressive investment, while initial failures at US WEST... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Expansion; Mobile Technology; Communications Industry
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (220) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details

    Daniel Willard

    After reviving the battered B&O railway line with $60 million in investment funds he personally solicited from Wall Street, Willard was required to turn over control of the company to the government during World War I. The extensive... View Details
    Keywords: Transportation

      Jennifer Lum

      Jennifer Lum is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Biospring Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in Life Sciences Technology. She is an accomplished investor and entrepreneur. Jennifer has... View Details

        David Duffield

        After failing to convince Larry Ellison that Oracle should invest in the development of human resource management software, Duffield decided to create his own business. PeopleSoft with its innovative... View Details
        Keywords: Computers & Electronics
        • October 2010
        • Article

        The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits

        By: Robert S. Kaplan and Allen S. Grossman
        Many of our largest and most successful companies today did not exist 50 years ago. During this same time interval, companies that ranked among top in the 1960s have disappeared, been merged out of existence, or become much smaller presences in the U.S. industrial... View Details
        Keywords: Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Accountability; Management Practices and Processes; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations
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        • 01 Jun 2018
        • News

        Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model

        multiple revenue sources, continued investments in the campus, and limited debt. The surplus we generate allows us to invest in innovation, self-fund faculty research, and offer generous need-based financial... View Details
        • Web

        Zach Komes Archives | Social Enterprise

        Filter Results: (2) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details
        • 14 Jun 2004
        • Research & Ideas

        The Big Money for Big Projects

        otherwise healthy parent corporation can deter a manager from making the investment in the first place even if it is likely to have a positive net present value in expectation. As a result, the firm will... View Details
        Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services