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- January 2025
- Supplement
Gemini Investors (B)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
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Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details. View Details
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Gemini Investors (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 225-721, January 2025.
- April 1982 (Revised April 1984)
- Case
Security Mortgage Investors
Law, Warren A. "Security Mortgage Investors." Harvard Business School Case 282-087, April 1982. (Revised April 1984.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?
In recent years, impact investors – private investors who seek to generate simultaneously financial and social returns – have attracted intense interest and controversy. We analyze a novel, comprehensive data set of impact and traditional investors to assess how the... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Socially Responsible Investing; Investment Decisions; Public Goods; Impact Investment; Investment; Private Equity; Venture Capital
Cole, Shawn, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth. "What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-028, November 2023. (Revise and Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies.)
- December 2016 (Revised November 2017)
- Module Note
Responsibilities to Investors
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Joseph L. Badaracco
Goldberg, Lena G., and Joseph L. Badaracco. "Responsibilities to Investors." Harvard Business School Module Note 317-078, December 2016. (Revised November 2017.)
- January 2014
- Article
The Investor Conundrum
By: Robert G. Eccles
Eccles, Robert G. "The Investor Conundrum." Accountancy Futures 8 (January 2014): 20–21.
- March 2006 (Revised November 2010)
- Background Note
Protecting Foreign Investors
Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from government agencies, and intervention by investors' home governments.... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Safety
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Protecting Foreign Investors." Harvard Business School Background Note 706-044, March 2006. (Revised November 2010.)
- 02 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Short-Termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- November 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Investor Relations at TOTAL
By: Gregory S. Miller, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
Examines investor relations and financial communications in a large company with a diverse group of financial stakeholders. Total is an "energy major" based in Paris, France. The importance of its product and its impact on economies and environments combine with the... View Details
Miller, Gregory S., Vincent Marie Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Investor Relations at TOTAL." Harvard Business School Case 106-023, November 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
Investors Demand CEO Face Time
- May 2014
- Article
How to Outsmart Activist Investors
By: Bill George and Jay W. Lorsch
We offer opinions on how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. Beverage industry firm PepsiCo is... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism
George, Bill, and Jay W. Lorsch. "How to Outsmart Activist Investors." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 5 (May 2014): 88–95.
- Video
HBS Investors Society
- 22 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Investors as Stewards of the Commons?
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 24 Nov 2020
- News
Investors Demand Climate Change Action
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
The current debate in the United States about how to regulate Wall Street focuses on laws, regulations, and monitoring. But lawmakers may want to look to history for guidance, to Brazil 100 years ago, when transparent governance and View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
Chasing the New Angel Investors
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches... View Details