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  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames. In their 1979 study, groups of high school students were given funds to invest. Participants could opt to invest individually, at a relatively low rate of return, or to add some or all of their funds to a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

    Eva Arias

    Keywords: Mining
    • 25 Apr 2014
    • News

    Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact

    1999. The Bridgespan Group serves more than 350 organizations and foundations, including Girls Incorporated, Feeding America, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Finding ways to scale an organization's impact without scaling its size is the new frontier in the... View Details
    • 28 Jun 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

    capital in Latin America. Chu still runs Pegasus but also joined HBS in 2003. His courses include "Effective Leadership of Social Enterprise" and "New Opportunities in Emerging Markets," the latter about managing View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 22 Sep 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    When Protestors Knock at Your Door

    LaMure (HBS MBA '02), is that targeted corporate executives who decide to ignore NGO protests do so at their own peril. Spar and LaMure recently detailed the rising power of NGOs and corporate responses in "The Power of Activism:... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • Profile

    Kwame Owusu-Kesse

    senior year at Harvard, he had formed, with two classmates, a social network called "Triumph," which sponsored social events for young professionals and doubled as a fundraising platform for... View Details
    • Web

    Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

    Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details
    • 09 Mar 2021
    • News

    Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

    making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for corporate social responsibility.... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 08 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 8

    rates made marketing expensive, and an inefficient distribution system increased costs further. In 2010, RB managed to overcome these constraints for one of its brands, Durex, the best-selling condom brand in the world, by leveraging Chinese View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2004
    • Class Lecture

    Strategic Alliances: The Power of Partnering Between Nonprofits and Businesses

    By: James Austin
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships
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    • Second Quarter 2008
    • Article

    How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross-Section of Returns

    By: Malcolm Baker, Johnathan Wang and Jeffrey Wurgler
    Broad waves of investor sentiment should have larger impacts on securities that are more difficult to value and to arbitrage. Consistent with this intuition, we find that when an index of investor sentiment takes low values, small, young, high volatility,... View Details
    Keywords: Volatility; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment; Investment Return; Attitudes
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    • November 2001 (Revised December 2003)
    • Case

    Incentive Pay for Portfolio Managers at Harvard Management Company

    By: Brian J. Hall and Jonathan Lim
    This case describes the compensation system for portfolio managers at Harvard's portfolio management company, including its formulaic and bonus bank features. Harvard Management Co. President Jack Meyer explains the philosophy behind the incentive pay at his company. View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Investment Portfolio; Compensation and Benefits; Financial Services Industry
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    • 07 Aug 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior in Japan

    Keywords: by Akash Chattopadhyay, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang; Financial Services
    • Web

    Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

    What is an acceptable price for the public to pay for the shortcomings of our work? How do our moral imperatives and social responsibilities motivate us to become the best possible stewards of what we know ?... View Details
    • 28 May 2019
    • News

    Cure All

    variation that doesn’t seem to be correlated to quality (at least to quality that we can measure). Which brings us to the question of why: Why can an industry like this that is so important and massive continue to function with these markers of poor market performance?... View Details
    Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
    • 28 Apr 2021
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

    this sector. Part of my responsibility at the fund was to review the ESG ratings of companies in Asia that were potential investment targets of this new strategy. Once I was told who the target company was,... View Details
    • Web

    Eligibility | New Venture Competition

    Siblings (HKS) Public Entrepreneurship (HBS) Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (HBS) Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (HBS) Social... View Details
    • 20 Feb 2014
    • News

    Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

    help with these problems. Somehow this bridge has to be built,” says Goodwin, who until earlier this month was CEO of Executives Without Borders (ExecWB), a sort of facilitator for corporate social responsibility. (Goodwin just announced... View Details
    Keywords: Jill Radsken
    • 19 Jun 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: June 19, 2007

    ratings are not optimally using publicly available data. We discuss the implications of our findings for advocates and opponents of corporate social responsibility as well as for studies that relate View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Apr 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

    America. In a nutshell, Republicans are defending deficits because they fuel economic growth. Democrats are justifying them to foster huge investments in social programs [potentially such as the Green New... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett