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  • May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

The Robin Hood Foundation

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Cathy Ross
Created by hedge fund and financial managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit organizations. As the global financial crisis continues to impact the poor disproportionately, the Foundation needs to ensure that its funds are being... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Poverty; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Financial Crisis; Programs; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Is Love Blind? AI-Powered Trading with Emotional Dividends

By: De-Rong Kong and Daniel Rabetti
We leverage the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) setting to assess the valuation of emotional dividends (LOVE), a long-standing empirical challenge in private-value markets such as art, antiques, and collectibles. Having created and validated our proxy, we use deep learning... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Non-fungible Tokens; AI and Machine Learning; Valuation; Financial Markets
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  • 15 Mar 2016
  • News

The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths

  • 09 Jun 2021
  • News

The Next Frontier of Sustainable Investing: Measuring Impact

  • February 2008 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Laurence Longren: End Game

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence
This case examines a successful 64-year old as he considers his goals, and how he should be spending his time, at this stage of his life. It briefly recounts his life story, and provides a special focus on personal financial planning and wealth management issues. View Details
Keywords: Age; Financial Management; Time Management; Personal Development and Career; Planning
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  • 12 Dec 2018
  • News

Impact Investing Could Accelerate the Fight Against Cancer

  • 08 Nov 2010
  • News

Is There an Optimal Rich-Poor Gap?

  • 10 Apr 2022
  • News

The Steps Needed To Empower the Powerless | Julie Battilana PhD

  • Web

Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

industry, and government—laid the foundation upon which entrepreneurship and innovation thrived in Eastern Massachusetts. Colleges and universities provided a View Details
  • January 2001 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

By: James E. Austin and Kim Slack
Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) is a $74 million nonprofit social enterprise that combats poverty by helping community development organizations build affordable housing and create economic development opportunities through public-private partnerships. Poses a... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Development Economics; Education; Capital; Investment Funds; Taxation; Growth and Development; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Segmentation; Service Industry
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  • 11 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

research to write a subsequent report. We also piloted a few programs within sections to experiment with identifying and surfacing class tensions—one example of that was a “Class Confessions” program in which students anonymously shared... View Details

    Reshmaan N. Hussam

    Reshmaan Hussam is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty... View Details

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Ponzi Funds

    By: Philippe van der Beck, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Dario Villamaina
    Many active funds hold concentrated portfolios. Flow-driven trading causes price pressure, which pushes up the funds’ existing positions resulting in realized returns. We decompose fund returns into a price pressure (self-inflated) and a fundamental component and... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Price Bubble; Financial Reporting; Financial Liquidity
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    • 14 Feb 2019
    • News

    Want to Foster Prosperity? Focus on Market-creating Innovations

    • 06 Dec 2012
    • News

    The Microwork Solution

    • 09 Aug 2024
    • Blog Post

    Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)

    organizations driving systemic changes in public education. City Fund partners with local leaders across the country to build innovative public school systems aimed at moving children out of poverty and into... View Details
    • October 2007 (Revised November 2010)
    • Module Note

    Evaluating M&A Deals-Equity Consideration

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    What the acquiring company pays for a target in a merger or acquisition is called "consideration." Consideration can be in the form of cash, shares, or a combination of the two. Lays out the basic mechanics of equity consideration. Derives formulas for the Deal NPV of... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Equity
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    • 06 May 2019
    • News

    20 Minutes With: Lauren H. Cohen of Harvard’s Executive Education Program

    • 13 Jan 2020
    • News

    Why Do Ultra-Wealthy People Want More Money?

    • 20 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

    to explore how MMAC can expand and deepen this important private sector partnership to accelerate the area’s 1400+ Black and Brown-owned businesses, helping create new family-supporting jobs View Details