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  • 08 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

I also helped to put together the investor presentation and figure out how we were going to tell our story so that people could grasp the power of what Facily was trying View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • February 2018 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Wellington Global Impact

By: Shawn Cole and Lynn Schenk
Wellington Global Impact is one of the first public equities impact investing strategies in the market. The case explores how the strategy was developed at Wellington, including an analysis of the culture that supported its development. It also explores the difficulty... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Impact Investing; Investment; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Analysis
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  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

investors are unaware of the biases that create barriers to actually investing in Black founders. It is no surprise that the rest of the investing world also severely lacks racial diversity. According View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • April 2008
  • Case

The Energy Foundation

By: Jane Wei-Skillern and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
The Energy Foundation, a philanthropic foundation established through a partnership among major donors with a mission to promote clean energy technology, is the largest funder in the U.S. focusing on the energy sector. The $60 million foundation operates through a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Networks; Expansion; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
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  • July 2021 (Revised August 2021)
  • Supplement

Airbnb Emerges from the Pandemic: Lessons for Stakeholder Governance (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison M. Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Two-Sided Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
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    José Graña Miró Quesada

    Keywords: Construction, Real Estate
    • 24 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

    fact, in recent years, Blum and his team were responsible for more such outsized successes than any other producer, especially in the horror genre. The company’s approach to moviemaking is quite different... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Flow-Driven ESG Returns

    By: Philippe van der Beck
    I show that the recent returns to ESG investing are strongly driven by price impact from flows towards ESG funds. Using data on institutional trades, I estimate the market’s ability to accommodate the demand of ESG funds, which is given by the elasticity of... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Markets; Investment Return
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    • November–December 2024
    • Article

    How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan
    During the past few years, as evidence of climate change and its effects has mounted, many corporate boards have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely.
    To better... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • 19 Apr 2018
    • Blog Post

    Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

    immediate financing constraints, but more importantly, catalyze other investors through demonstration effects, creating and shaping markets in places where there are none today. As a financially autonomous, legally separate entity within... View Details
    • 29 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 29

      Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 16 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

    great customer service is no longer the responsibility of just one department. Creating the customer-centric organization. (12,182 visits) What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style Researchers use machine-learning View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 12

    are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Jan 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: January 28

    distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Nov 2013
    • Op-Ed

    Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

    Twitter soared high on its first day of trading on Nov. 7, with its shares closing the day at $45 for a value of $25 billion. Even though TWTR has yet to make money, investors flocked View Details
    Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

      Khalid Al Rumaihi

      Keywords: Hospitality
      • 04 Jun 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: June 4

      Private Equity By: Ewens, Michael, Charles M. Jones, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem between the investors and... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability

      By: Rebecca Henderson
      Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability". Is it acting sustainably to protect the human rights of the firm's workforce?... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability
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