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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
Applied Sciences (SEAS) by creating an endowment for financial aid for students in the Schools’ joint MS/MBA program in Engineering Sciences. “The expansion of SEAS to Allston is a catalyst for collaboration that will propel and transform... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
investment, most such arguments are founded on hubris rather than on solid advantages or capabilities. Indeed, Norway, the country with the most experience in investing national wealth, has developed an endowment model that eschews direct... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
lot in the news lately about funding pauses and freezes, a potential endowment tax, and perhaps even a challenge to Harvard’s non-profit status—all of which affect the University’s financial position. How are these actions being felt at... View Details
- Web
From the Director | Baker Library
Printing Kirkwood Printing Kenneth J. Peterson Executive Director Knowledge & Library Services Laura Linard Senior Director Baker Library Special Collections Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
success to the support he received from his wife, who typed every paper he wrote. Now the proud grandparents of thirteen, the Haweses are active in the Mormon Church. Last year they created an endowment at Brigham Young University's... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Fundación with a first-of-its-kind transaction, allowing to purchase Mexican bonds in the market below face value and then redeem the bonds immediately at face value. The transaction almost doubled the $2.6 million endowment the Fundación... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
endowment and foundation boards. The Network Effect Ma has found the HBS alumni network to be particularly valuable both throughout her career and in her personal life. “The alumni community is a group of people with shared values. We... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
economist Burt Malkiel (MBA 1955), former chair of the Yale endowment Charley Ellis (MBA 1963), and former head of IBM’s investment funds Jay Vivian (MBA 1978) to serve on the Rebalance Investment Committee. The company has also invested... View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
wealth, has developed an endowment model that eschews direct investments. Instead, the Norwegians have evolved into a world-class portfolio investor that predominantly makes asset allocation decisions. For U.S. regulators, these patterns... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
for social investors. These are people who put their money where their mouth isand they pay a very significant price.— Sam Hayes Hayes related an experience as a member of a Swarthmore College investment committee, which was responsible for some $500 million in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
new vigor in the development of deep intellectual roots. The entrepreneurial research community now has its own division in the Academy of Management, most schools have courses in entrepreneurship, and there are over 150 endowed... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 15 Jul 2025
- Blog Post
Outrage at the Death of a Tree
not reckoned with nature’s bounty fully. One intriguing effort recently is to anthropomorphize nature, in the so-called ‘rights of nature’ movement, which endows river, forests, etcetera, with rights. Ecuador pioneered this in 2008, and... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
The authors also found that market-leading firms with strong reserves “actively invested in the short term with the sole focus of extending their long-term advantage over less endowed competitors.” View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
the last 10 to 15 years educating myself on art history and contemporary artists." Evans's philanthropic work also extends to HBS, where she and Bruce, both financial aid recipients, paid forward the assistance they received in the form of an View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
described as a vulture capitalist, now gets a serious hearing when he urges Apple to make better use of its billions in cash or Dell to improve the terms of a management buyout. Today, university endowments and state pension funds invest... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
25 years of experience in numerous industries, Pritzker founded Vi Senior Living, and cofounded the Parking Spot and Artemis Real Estate Partners. She is a member of the board of Microsoft; chairman of the board of trustees of the Carnegie View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
on a farsighted version of strong dominance (cf., Roth and Postlewaite, 1977) if no individual is indifferent between his endowment and the endowment of someone else. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
turnarounds. Thus, Holcomb, Holmes Jr., and Connelly argued that “firms must pay close attention both to their resource endowment and to the ability of their managers to extract value." The tale of three coaches Consider the... View Details
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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library
the Exhibition Smith College Archives, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts Kenneth J. Peterson Executive Director Baker Library Laura Linard Senior Director Baker Library Special Collections and Archives Organized by Baker Library Special... View Details
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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
novel 795bn Next Generation EU recovery package that will allow unprecedented investment in digitalization, the green economy, education, and health. Ranked first in cultural heritage in most rankings and endowed with historical cities,... View Details