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  • 14 Nov 2019
  • News

Can Non-traditional Health Care Companies Impact the Health Sector?

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • August 2017 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

PFA Pension: Expansion of Alternatives Portfolio

By: Victoria Ivashina, Federica Gabrieli and Jérôme Lenhardt
PFA Pension was the biggest commercial pension provider in Denmark. At the end of 2015, the company had decided to boost its investments into the alternative asset class, an area where it was lagging behind its competitors. The aim was to privilege direct investments... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Private Equity; Investment; Denmark; Europe
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Accounting for Product Impact in the Oil and Gas Industry

By: Katie Panella, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the oil and gas industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary product impact estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Oil; Oil ＆ Gas; Oil And Gas; IWAI; Impact-Weighted Accounts; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product
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    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil

    By: Mark Kramer, Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and T. Robert Zochowski
    ExxonMobil, the world's fifth largest source of carbon emissions, remained committed to aggressively expanding its oil & gas business despite global warming. During the COVID pandemic this strategy resulted in massive losses as the price and demand for oil declined. ... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Global Warming; Impact Investment Funds; Hedge Fund Activism; Leadership Development; Business Model; Renewable Energy; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Impact Investing and Worker Outcomes

    By: Josh Lerner, Markus Lithell and Gordon M. Phillips
    Impact investors claim to distinguish themselves from traditional venture capital and growth equity investors by also pursuing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. Whether they successfully do so in practice is unclear. We use confidential Census... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Wages
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    • 14 Nov 2019
    • Video

    Health Minute: Can Non-traditional Health Care Companies Impact the Health Sector?

    • May 2025
    • Case

    'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation

    By: Lauren Cohen, Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan
    Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and was among... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Fund; Philanthropy; Charitable Donations; Sustainability; Foundation; Impact Investing; ESG; Family Business; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Sector; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Issues; Sustainable Cities; Financial Services Industry; Minnesota; United States
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    • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
    In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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    • 09 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

    Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Video Game; Web Services
    • June 2016
    • Article

    Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation

    By: David Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
    We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade results in greater expected profit than a constant emissions price under an... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Management; Management; Technology; Service Operations; Environmental Sustainability
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    • 26 May 2022
    • News

    ‘This One Is Different’: Tech Companies Brace for Impact amid Market Plunge

    • Web

    Impact Investments

    Mission Statement The Project on Impact Investments is dedicated to studying the universe of impact investors and portfolio companies that seek... View Details
    • September 2008 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    Loews Corporation: Corporate Strategy as a Portfolio

    By: Joseph L. Bower
    In 2007, Loews Inc., under the leadership of James Tisch, was considering whether to buy natural gas properties from Dominion Resources. The question is whether the acquisition fits the corporate strategy. In exploring the questions, students will have the chance to... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Business or Company Management; Value Creation; Acquisition; Management Teams
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    • January 2025
    • Course Overview Note

    Overview Principles of Financial Modeling for Small Companies in Investing for Impact

    By: Emily R. McComb
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    • 29 Nov 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

    Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam
    • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
    • Supplement

    Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
    In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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    • January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and the Cost of Capital (Abridged)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
    In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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    • Editorial

    Companies Must Include Environmental and Social Performance Measures

    By: George Serafeim
    Keywords: Sustainability; Impact; ESG; Transparency; Accounting
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    • 01 Jul 2020
    • News

    How to Build an ESG Portfolio – And Why You Should