Real Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2008 (Revised January 2015)
Teaching Note

Polanco: A Fashionable Opportunity

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Keywords: Investment; Planning; Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Design; Property; Opportunities; Legal Liability; Real Estate Industry; Mexico

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22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. LEED-ing by ExampleWhen a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the private sector follows suit,... View Details

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

criticism have followed Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade America's credit rating. However, the real story is about how unsustainable the massive US government deficits are, and how difficult they will be to close. The deficits... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

the family business. The portrait of the business would also typically represent more than 90 percent of the owners' wealth. “If this transition is not managed well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment... View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames. In their 1979 study, groups of high school students were given funds to invest. Participants could opt to invest individually, at a relatively low rate of return, or to add some or all of their funds to a... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

obvious that no real commitment was made by the board of directors.” The public sector bears some responsibility for fostering stakeholder capitalism. IndexLlc commented that “the real problem has been the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

May 1968 (Revised January 1992)
Case

Graybar Syndications

By: William J. Poorvu

A potential investor evaluates a proposed offering—a major office building in downtown Manhattan. View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Investment; Construction; City; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY)

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10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

to recent research. Enter the era of “spray and pray,” where venture firms over the last decade have seeded more firms than previously, but with less upfront investment of time and money. As someone who teaches entrepreneurial finance,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

foreseeable future. The teaching profession itself will need to undergo radical changes, said Salinas, where teachers need more training—to use technology among other skills—and more support in terms of salaries, staffing plans, and resources. We need a major social... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

growth, but we still have a very poor understanding of the value implications of these kinds of actions. So there's lots of room for improvement. Q: Are there certain companies excelling in this area, or any industries where ESG View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual increases in View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a real-world market View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

School. Intel Capital, the chipmaker's venture division, has scaled back somewhat from the hyper investment levels of 2000, "but I've always thought it was really important in the venture market to stay in the market, be in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

secondary market in tokenized securities. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 219-056 Camber Creek & Measurabl Inc. In late 2017, Camber Creek, a real estate technology... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

downstream exposure, we construct firm-specific exogenous credit supply shocks and estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and downstream propagation effects on View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

Professor Noam Wasserman discusses his research into the motivations of entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them. Key concepts include: Entrepreneurs are often motivated by the potential of money and control, but very few ever... View Details

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

managed, not just to survive the crisis it faced in the early 1990s, but to reposition the company to lead the industry. The powerful lesson from the IBM story is that innovation is not a side business to running the real business.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and downstream propagation effects on investment and output throughout the period but no significant... View Details