Investment Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
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Three Promoted to Full Professor

Reinhardt is currently studying the relationships between business behavior and environmental quality, particularly in the energy industry and the food and agribusiness sector. His research focuses on the relationship between... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Alumni Books

The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2020
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Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

community, city, our country, than the pain of outsiders,” he says. We can increase our aggregate good in the world by redirecting our intentions to support people farther afield who are struggling with basic human needs. Max Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus... View Details

28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research

can do research,” he says. And finally, PAD’s iterative approach is based literally on the ground and out in the field, circumventing the dangers of so-called solutions that don’t meet the practical needs of the end user. “We’re doing a lot of A/B testing and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

16 Mar 2018
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Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming for the emerging Generation Z. Ng knew she wanted to pursue... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch

met for a catered lunch in a room next to Welch's office on the 53rd floor of the GE Building at Rockefeller Plaza. "We talked nonstop," says Sanders, who spent his summer in Boston at the investment management firm of Gannett Welsh &... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2018
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Evergreen Business

countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

business leaders from the region. Session topics covered the current status and outlook for various industries and issues ranging from venture and investment capital, to entertainment and media, to consumer marketing. Other panels... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Africa on the Move

many networking, social, and special events took place throughout the weekend, including a banquet at which Cyrille Nkontchou (MBA ’97), founder and CEO of the South Africa–based investment firm LiquidAfrica, received the club’s Alumni... View Details

Keywords: clubs; Information

01 Jun 2006
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HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth

million to reach a total of $62 million, reflecting gifts to The Campaign for Harvard Business School and another above-average year of investment returns for the School’s endowment. Campaign gifts and endowment funds enable HBS to make... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

the long term. Faculty Books Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling by Frank V. Cespedes (Harvard Business Review Press) Although US companies invest... View Details

May 2023
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Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation

By: Elisabeth Kempf, Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer and Margarita Tsoutsoura

Does investors' political ideology shape international capital allocation? We provide evidence from two settings—syndicated corporate loans and equity mutual funds—to show ideological alignment with foreign governments affects the cross-border capital allocation by... View Details

Keywords: Capital Flows; Syndicated Loans; Mutual Funds; Partisanship; Polarization; Elections; Political Ideology; Banks and Banking; Institutional Investing; Behavioral Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions

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22 Nov 2024
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Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Care Initiative; Leemore Dafny, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration; and Peter Barrett, an Executive Fellow at HBS and Partner at Atlas Venture. Panels discussed a wide range of topics including new business models in healthcare delivery, biotech... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

Costs of Racial 'Color Blindness' By: Norton, Michael I., and Evan P. Apfelbaum Abstract—The article looks at research on people's attitudes and behaviors with respect to noticing and referring to a person's race. It explains the 2013... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Jun 2006
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Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants

association that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs (currently some 1,700 individuals in sixty countries). The convergence under discussion was the overlap of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and the reality... View Details

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

16 Feb 2022
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Holding Business to Account

Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston, to discuss an... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities

"a growth-enhancing and stable macroeconomic framework that rewards productivity and creativity." Susan E. Rice, U.S. assistant secretary for African Affairs, was the distinguished luncheon speaker. Citing indicators of Africa's "improved economic performance and View Details

19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2006
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Jay Light Named New HBS Dean

initiatives. He also was chair of the Finance unit (1986–88) and senior associate dean, director of Faculty Planning (1988–94). He took a leave of absence in 1977–79 to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford... View Details

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