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  • 19 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

entrants, and we wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. WINNER: Tough Tech: Most Promising Climate Tech Venture $5,000 Prize Grensol - Rajiv... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front payment before people receive any benefits... View Details
Keywords: Age; Annuities; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Saving; Retirement
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  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Pearson Hunt Remembered

also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment decisions. In the midst of this work, Hunt coined the term EBIT (earnings before interest and... View Details
  • Profile

Zayed Muhammed Yasin

designing wouldn't be satisfying to me." Looking for an alternative approach to international development As an undergraduate, Zayed spent a summer in Albania working with refugees from the war in Kosovo. After graduation, he spent a... View Details
  • Web

Domestic Students | MBA

there are a lot of ways for you to get support as you decide how you want to finance your time at HBS. Loans for Domestic Students Federal Student Loan Programs Federal student loans are available through the Federal Direct Loan Program.... View Details
  • March 2022
  • Article

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field

By: Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
Identifying high-growth microentrepreneurs in low-income countries remains a challenge due to a scarcity of verifiable information. With a cash grant experiment in India we demonstrate that community knowledge can help target high-growth microentrepreneurs; while the... View Details
Keywords: Microentrepreneurs; Community Information; Field Experiment; Loans; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Financing and Loans; Information; Mathematical Methods; India
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  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

blame someone else.” On “Don’t ask, don’t tell”: “It struck me that I’m leading an institution whose main value is integrity—yet I’m asking men and women who are willing to die for their country to lie about who they are every single... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

other out and to work in concert on issues on which they share common ground.—Cynthia A. Montgomery and Rhonda Kaufman Reinvigorate Shareholders. As Michael Jensen observed in a 1993 Journal of Finance article, "Financial View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

demographics of America shift," he explains. With a relatively short season compared to other sports leagues, the NFL has scored by developing the off-season draft and scouting combine into days-long, high-powered media events. This could... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
  • 17 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

said. As for the issue of human capital, Rajan noted that the majority of the populous is undereducated. "We need more education," he said. "Harvard is of course unique, but we need more institutions that emulate you."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Visionary, Innovator, Educator - 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... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Inside the Partnership

savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Democratic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 1989
  • Chapter

Minguo shiqi Zhongwai jingji jishu hezuo: Meigo zhanshi shengchan quwentuan huan Hua, 1944-1946 [Sino-foreign Economic and Technical Cooporation in Republican China: The U.S. War Production Mission to China, 1944-46]

By: William C. Kirby
Keywords: History; International Finance; International Relations; Cooperation; Developing Countries and Economies; China; United States
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  • 13 May 2010
  • Conference Presentation

Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization to Realize Profitable Growth

By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Customers; Organizations; Growth and Development; Profit
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  • January–July 1993
  • Article

Growth, Corporate Policies and the Investment Opportunity Set

By: George P. Baker
Keywords: Growth and Development; Policy; Investment
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  • 19 Jan 2016
  • News

Electric Avenues

invests up front to develop and build the desalination facility, signing up local utilities to long-term contracts at firm prices. “It’s one of the first examples of a private company in the US water industry taking on View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • September–October 2023
  • Article

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal and Kala Viswanathan
Common owners face an incredible investment challenge: managing systematic risk. Because common owners hold shares in multiple firms across an industry, an action (or inaction) by one firm that affects industry peers is felt more severely by common owners than by... View Details
Keywords: Common Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return
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  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Think globally, crowdfund locally

institutions think about lending to these businesses." Local Lift has a residency in the Harvard Innovation Lab and received funding from the Rock Summer Fellowship Program. In summer 2013, its pilot program in two cities saw success in 8... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Liberal Arts Major Pursues an MBA

I could prove myself before being swallowed whole by the swarm of finance wizards. I can’t help but smirk when I think back on this vivid memory, as I couldn’t have been more misguided in my anxiety. It was a matter of hours, not days,... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand

immediate one of financial services. This highlighted the need for me to gain data fluency and competency—to invest in building out my data and analytics skillset for the sake of my career.” When Ho decided to explore different career options for similar strategy roles... View Details
Keywords: Technology