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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

As impact investing has emerged as a new, fast-growing category of private investing, so too has the awareness of the stark disparity between access to capital among small business owners. The Harvard Business School (HBS) Impact... View Details

15 May 2012
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people, and activities across numerous self-governing enterprises in ways that are advantageous for the group as well as for the designer's own firm or community. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-100.pdf Platform Competition under Asymmetric View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details

June 2020
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Real-time Data from Mobile Platforms to Evaluate Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Kevin Alvarez, Arielle Dror, Emerson Wenzel, Catharina Hollauer and Sooji Ha

By displacing gasoline and diesel fuels, electric cars and fleets reduce emissions from the transportation sector, thus offering important public health benefits. However, public confidence in the reliability of charging infrastructure remains a fundamental barrier to... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Infrastructure; Behavior; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers

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30 Nov 2015
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Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

another contributor, such as a wealthy family or foundation. That made a huge difference, says Keenan. Even when participants were informed that there was 50 percent overhead associated with donations to charity: water, 71.43 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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exercise studios. Shad Hall is also home to the offices for Operations and for Information Technology, as well as the Tennenbaum Technology Operations Center. The roof is “green”—topped with 64 cubic yards of a gravel-like medium allowing... View Details

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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

compensation package as well as directors and officers insurance. Compensation will vary by type of company and stage of development. For public companies, this information is public. For private companies,... View Details

September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
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Cesaro e Associati

By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal

This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details

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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds

navigation. Select Company Search. Add desired criteria under Industry & Geography. Under Company Attributes, check Private under Company Status. Under Financing & Exit, add information about funding... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

next level by learning how to maximize investment portfolio value with alternative investments, including private equity and real estate. 5 weeks 6-7 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a... View Details

12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Studies... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2018
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The New History of American Capitalism

infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional dichotomies, current historians of American capitalism contest... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

31 Aug 2010
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Furthermore, a third experiment shows that people tend to discount the wrongness of crossing ethical boundaries to hurt or help others when the action restores equity. The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2007
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Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

proving to be inefficient and were drains on the public treasury. Business would do well to support improvements in the system that purports to protect their investments abroad. The Thatcher and Reagan revolutions in the industrialized countries led to new views toward... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

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Research Design - Impact Investments

markets investments where standardized disclosures can be obtained through public filings, information on these private companies’ finances is limited. Given the size and expected growth of the impact... View Details

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Sales & Trading 5% $175k 25th Percentile Base $175k Median $185k 75th Percentile Base $50k 82% Receiving $175k 75% Receiving Investment Management / Hedge Fund 6% $165k 25th Percentile Base $180k Median $190k 75th Percentile Base $50k 77% Receiving $90k 77% Receiving... View Details

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Wireless Network . Off-HBS-Campus From off-HBS-campus, the HBSGrid can only be accessed through a virtual private network (VPN) connection using the Pulse Secure software. A VPN ensures that all communication between your computer and... View Details

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