Investment Recommendations - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

working for an investment management firm in Boston. He then served as the Chairman of the Board of the investment management company I started in Boston nine years later. Professor Salmon constantly amazed... View Details

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

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Fund—Managing Towards Impact 2018 No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218086-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-072 Background Note: Introduction to Investing for Impact No abstract available.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53441 forthcoming Operations Research Letters Orienteering for Electioneering By: Kallenbach, Jonah, Robert Kleinberg, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—In this paper, we introduce a combinatorial optimization problem that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart

obviously, having a personal brand crosses over to our professional lives, whether the goal is finding a job, developing new clients, or attracting investments to your start-up. What is your personal brand? Insightful, resourceful,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; marriage; social media; matchmaking; Personal Services

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

investment banking division for Goldman Sachs. And it was kind of an interesting experience I thought I'd share quickly. We started the training program in about September of 1987, then in October of 1987 there was a big stock market... View Details

08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

is invested and aid has a small but insignificant effect on growth. Aid has no effect on the financial account, but does raise holdings of foreign reserves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases &... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

show that BNDES's purchases of equity lead to increases in return on assets and investment in fixed assets. Finally, we find that the positive effect of BNDES's equity purchases is reduced when the target firms belong to state-owned and... View Details

28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

1998) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Jadhav recommends writing a daily health journal as a way to inpire oneself to improve oneself. The mere fact that one is concentrating on some part of improving one’s health is enough.... View Details

19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 809-003 These three short vignettes depict investment professionals considering difficult financings for companies in their portfolios. For one reason or another, each company has underperformed expectations.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

If a team leaves after short period, the company will lose the investment required to integrate the team. If the lift out was praised as a strategic triumph, public humiliation might follow a defection, especially if the departure comes... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

the heart once you’ve gone and assessed those types of things. When I get calls from like venture capitalists or other people who might want to invest in some of my alumni, the easiest reference checks that I find that I can make, the... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

recommend that a bright, young associate with five years of experience pursue an MBA, the answer was, “No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us.” A number of recruiters said that what they value most is the... View Details

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

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

countries. During his visit, Obama hosted an entrepreneurship conference attended by the likes of former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The president announced that American businesses were ready to invest in Cuba and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

02 Oct 2017
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Radical Generosity for the Real World

thoughts about giving. Campbell: Yes, that was another profound experience. So yes, our church had made a $1,000 investment in 1970 that became a $1.6 million windfall, in 2014. And so the very first thing our church did with that money... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

invested in six nonprofit organizations around India. Nundy spent the second half of her summer internship with these groups, which are involved in issues such as mental health programs, education, and outreach to street children. It was... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

direction. "For the first three months," Charron continues, "I did nothing but listen. I had to listen to figure out what the hell was going on. All I did was go around and meet people — hundreds of people inside and outside the company, in the View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity... View Details