Publications

May 2025
Case

'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation

By: Lauren Cohen, Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan

Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and was among... View Details

January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
Case

TPG Rise Climate: Deploying 'Climate Capital'

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, David Allen, Sarah Mehta and Shannon Roche

This case is about TPG Rise Climate, a $7.3 billion climate impact fund launched in 2021 by alternative asset manager TPG. Climate investing is a complex, capital-intensive endeavor; entering it has forced TPG to think and act differently. Relative to other funds, Rise... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Environmental Management; Ownership; Science; Value; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)

February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
Case

CPP Investments—The Road to Zero

By: Vikram Gandhi and Radhika Kak

In February 2022, Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) Investments, the investment management organization that managed funds for the CPP, one of the biggest pension plans in the world, announced a net-zero commitment for its portfolio by 2050. Under its CEO, John Graham, it... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Asset Management; Investment Portfolio; Leading Change; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; Canada; California

April 2024 (Revised August 2024)
Case

The Engine

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Jim Matheson, Fiona Murray and Nicholas Christman

The Engine, a venture capital firm founded by MIT to fill a gap in the technology funding landscape by commercializing breakthrough science and technology. Led by managing partner and CEO Katie Rae, the Engine's unique approach involved an unusually longer fund life,... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financial Services Industry

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

implications are discussed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51617 forthcoming Management Science Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services By: Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2025
News

Forward Thinking

The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustrations by Maria Jesus Contreras; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

questions. Yet, the conceptions of business that each question implies can be (and historically have tended to be) mutually exclusive. Everybody wants goods and services made available at low prices. But achieving that goal often means... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

26 Mar 2025
Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

Radman (MBA 2019) wondered when he first received equity grants upon joining the tech industry shortly after graduating from Harvard Business School (HBS). He searched for someone who could help him create a strategy around his equity... View Details

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

problem in the health care industry comes partly from a clash of interests. Doctors are passionate about addressing the individual needs of each patient, while regulators and policy makers are intent on having one piece of legislation... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

still come from one source, search and advertising, despite the organization's emphasis on providing time and an organization for innovation among its associates. I remembered the airline Song, which had introduced service innovations... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

it all over again. Those are the routines of the majority of our students. If tuition and fees are covered, it still is not easy, but it is more manageable. Is CCRI partnering with local businesses? We collaborate with companies across View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

industrial location, talking and asking about the question with the nervous energy for which his team had always known him. By his own words, LaMagna was "a risk addict and a compulsive capitalist," and deep down knew that he... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

$10 million, knew that the web represented an opportunity to build and expand a well-established brand. Founded in 1857 by a group of Bostonians with triple-decker names (James Russell Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson among them), the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

08 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

domestic and imported inputs. Value data for imports and exports of services are too aggregated and valuations are questionable, while price data for service exports and imports are almost non-existent.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2001 (Revised September 2005)
Case

USA TODAY: Pursuing the Network Strategy (B)

By: Michael L. Tushman, Michael J. Roberts and David Kiron

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Integration; Internet and the Web; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Newspapers; Innovation and Invention; Journalism and News Industry