Alternative Finance - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

(inflows minus outflows of private capital) are positively correlated with countries' productivity growth; (2) net sovereign debt flows (government borrowing minus reserves) are negatively correlated with growth only if net public debt is View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110052-PDF-ENG ALAC International Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 211-065 ALAC was a small importer of specialty industrial chemicals. The case explores the different View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
News

'Rooted' In Innovation

team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first product CassVita... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Apr 1997
News

Learning from the Past

works know themselves less well than they might, and to their cost." Strassler credits his successful business career with giving him the time and wherewithal to undertake and finance the project. In 1963, he and his associates took over... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

on the form of the plan, and they rarely examine the available alternatives. Often, they aren't even aware that alternatives exist. But such a laissez-faire approach, as I've seen over and over again, can lead to disaster. The way options... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

September 2024
Case

TechEnergy Ventures: Innovating Through Corporate Venture Capital

By: Rebecca Karp and Lena Duchene

This case examines TechEnergy Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of the Techint Group, and its role in scaling innovation within the energy sector. Founded in 2021, TechEnergy Ventures operates with a mandate to invest in disruptive technologies to... View Details

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07 May 2019
News

How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal

out an alternative deal: “We’ll value your company at $20 million, and you keep half. You sell half the company for the same valuation, hold on to the upside, and still get money up front.” McAfee said, “I’d love that. I hadn’t even... View Details

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

businesses to access financing for solar,” Chidalu explains. (01:11) In 2022, Chidalu founded her fintech company Earthbond, with the mission to empower Nigerians and their businesses with affordable View Details

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

random coefficients logit leads a researcher to very different conclusions about individuals' tastes depending on how alternatives are presented in the choice set. In turn, these biased parameter estimates affect counterfactual... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2014
News

Investing for the Long Term in Education

hurdle over a long period of time. We don’t think about how we do that in any one year. We think about how we do that over the course of 10 years. And so it means going into new markets, it means looking for inefficiencies, it means building a team that we know will... View Details

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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

focus on how to successfully manage the financial aspects of smaller firms. We explore the difficulty of growing these firms and explore which business models are more likely to succeed. And, of course, we explore how these businesses View Details

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

institutions, particularly the mutual fund industry. His work has focused on the determinants of fund flows, the impact of alternative governance structures on fee setting, the evolution of competition, and underlying economics of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

three into a simple "estimator" that we use to assess which of the options—A, B, or C—looks like the best for us. The most minimal form of this "estimator" uses only two alternatives for each of the three variables,... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

03 Apr 2012
News

Just Compensation

alternative courses of action or alignment. And, says Ferracone, “it is an excellent communication tool to facilitate productive discussion between compensation committees and management, and between companies and their investors.” Asked... View Details

Keywords: executives; executive compensation; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

01 Sep 2006
News

Strange Bedfellows

is the book income they produce. The proposal to publicly report taxes paid is an eminently sensible idea. More ambitious alternatives should also be considered, including making corporate tax returns public so shareholders can benefit... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

emissions. Perhaps, the opposite is also true. Are things that were once seen as quite dangerous now potentially relatively safe as result of new understandings and innovations? My own concerns about climate change have led me to put "new" nuclear back on my table of... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years ago, online transactions were nonexistent at Schwab. But just as significant as the explosion of its Internet trading revenues, Goldman says, may be the Web-driven strategic changes at Schwab. With the company originally conceived as an View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

COVID-19 crisis, explains Serafeim. Being newsy helps In addition, the research findings suggest that the more salient or newsworthy a firm’s response, the stronger the effects on the stock returns. The researchers focused on ruling out an View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly... View Details