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  • January 2025
  • Case

Untapped Global: Financing Africa’s Missing Middle

By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli
In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Working Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Microfinance; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit Sharing; Revenue; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Nigeria; South Africa; Kenya; Uganda; California; San Francisco
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  • 18 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

will bring greater commodity price and exchange rate predictability. Marketing will again come to the fore as a differentiator between successful businesses and also-rans. Join the discussion on Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on long-term bonds and short-term bonds forecasts positively future excess returns on bonds at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal interest rate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the exchange of cyberattack data... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds Abstract—Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

Convexity By: Hanson, Samuel Gregory Abstract—Most home mortgages in the U.S. are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Baker’s back

valuable collaboration.” Similarly, the south entrance’s Exchange is designed to foster community. With the feel of a living room much like the common areas of Spangler, The Exchange has eight large plasma... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

the pass-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54935 forthcoming Consumption, Markets & Culture Big Data By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

As many entrepreneurs and business leaders can testify, a great conversation or brainstorm can turn an inkling of an idea into a gamechanger. A research paper goes inside those conversations and the people having them to learn the ingredients that separate a common... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political institutions. At the risk of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

material exchange in labor relations). Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16621 Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Pérez-Truglia Abstract In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

foreign business—without experience in that type of environment—to enter and to prosper in. The crime rate is certainly one of the highest in the world, to the extent that it affects the everyday lives of people and managers. The HIV... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715432-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-019 A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946-2002 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

consistent with boardroom connections mattering most for firms that stand to benefit most from the information communicated and resources exchanged through the network of board members. Overall, our results suggest that board of director... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

For most, these are just cases. For us, they are frequent reminders of the systems that were built and persist to the detriment of Black people. I hate the exchange that Black students have before each of these classes: “Who’s gonna do it... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

the impact of new technologies, new management techniques, and an increasing pace of planning and execution on teaching philosophies for management, such as the participant-centered case method. The rate of change in the past few years... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 24 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

private money from insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, sovereign funds, and high net worth individuals currently invested in global fixed income securities, mostly earning near zero real yields. How can this capital find... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

the value of long-term relative to short-term investments. Empirically, we can, therefore, compare the reduction of long-term relative to short-term investments within firms, allowing for firm-times-year fixed effects. Using Spanish firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne