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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
finance a $4 billion fiscal stimulus package amid the global economic downturn. Velasco was now Chile's most popular minister. However, the future of Chile's fiscal policy was questionable with the election of a new president, Sebastian Pinera, the first View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
offering a common connection or larger goal, through a relationship based on trust.” By leveraging less traditional means of support, a company can ultimately do more with less, conserving valuable financial resources, and bootstrapping... View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
in the world, way more important than Intel. In any recession, consumers focus closer to home. They become more local and less global in outlook. So these are times of opportunity for the thousands of conservatively run community banks... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Goldston Professor of Business Administration (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) The researchers worked with two MBA students—a liberal and a conservative to ensure diverse perspectives—to document existing gun policies, and to determine which... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
environment being among them. The Wyss Foundation, for example, focuses on preserving extraordinary landscapes in the intermountain west and the Colorado Plateau, where Wyss first hiked and climbed as a 23-year-old exchange student. Planning is also under way for the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
programs as a win-win-win scenario: compliance improves, regulators conserve enforcement resources, and firms save money. But this outcome can only be achieved if the self-regulatory activities of corporations can effectively substitute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
"stakeholder" view of corporate governance. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209090 Buildings and Energy Harvard Business School Case 708-024 Presents data on opportunities to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit superior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
switch, the more conservative you are. This is a standard risk elicitation method that’s been used in the laboratory countless times now,” Minor says. He then compared the survey results to the investors’ actual portfolio choices. What he... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Rock’s estimates. A second expedition that same year, led by a Swiss geologist, had measured the mountain at slightly more than 25,000 feet above sea level, and National Geographic had chosen this more conservative figure. Rock’s... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
dimension. In Colombia, President Cesar Gaviría's so-called "revolcón"—his plan of economic modernization and structural adjustment, implemented in the early 1990s—exerted a significant impact on the health sector. Budgetary cutbacks forced hospitals to... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management, and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
to be a force for positive change. When I leave this world, I want people to remember me for the stories we shared, the friendships we built, and the joy we sparked together. Miho Sakuma - MBA ‘20 Tell us about your background: Having been raised by View Details
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Amram Migdal. "Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment." Harvard Business School Case 318-003, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- Profile
Arthur Rock
modern venture capital. In the early 1960s, Rock began to chafe at the conservative attitudes toward new ventures that he encountered in the east. It was “old establishment and old money,” he said. “People have been doing things one way... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
expanded facilities. So began Kendall’s career path in the nonprofit and environmental space, which has included some time in Central America working on carbon sequestration and hardwood conservation projects, and eventually, in 2000, to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
grip on corporate America. Starting salaries averaged $22,500 in 1977. Neckties were wider, and the corporate uniform was dark business suits for men and conservative skirts and jackets for women. Saving time for family commitments was a... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
ongoing need for shark conservation and management, prevailing negative sentiments marginalize these animals and legitimize permissive exploitation. These negative attitudes arise from an instinctive yet exaggerated fear, which is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details