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15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

employee 401(k) contributions responded to savings information provided by their employers. The study was conducted to understand what kind of influence company-offered information can have. “We’ve uncovered a phenomenon that is probably not sufficiently attended to in... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

26 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Business and the Environment

Managing Partner, Generation Investment ManagementJames McCarthy, Harvard University faculty These experts shared their perspectives on global climate change. Professor McCarthy discussed scientific findings; Blood provided an investor's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Forest L. Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

13 Nov 2014
Blog Post

Finance Conference Recap

Over 400 attendees registered for the event, which featured three keynote speakers and six panels through the course of the day. The opening speaker was Mr. Doug Braunstein, current Vice Chairman at J.P. Morgan Chase. With experience in View Details

25 May 2016
News

A Focus on Sustainability

Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972), who enjoyed a remarkably successful career in the investment business, has spent much of the last decade focused on his passion for the environment. Channeling his energy, intelligence,... View Details

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

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Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

Investing Network - Read the GIIN's latest Op-eds and publications, along with Investor Spotlights, Investment Profiles, and third-party research from other leading impact View Details

19 Oct 2021
News

In the Contest for Content

to other major buyers like BMG and Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which has spent about $2 billion on the catalogs of Neil Young and Shakira. Clarke Soares, the former CEO of Tempo Music Investments and a managing director at Morgan Stanley before... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

for the Securities and Exchange Commission to pass rules that would allow for crowdfunding investment on a large scale. Already, companies have dipped their toes into crowdfunding through websites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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Corporate venture capital subsidiaries: how to identify

How can I find which firms have corporate venture capital subsidiaries? Capital IQ allows you to create a list of corporate venture capital subsidiaries. Select Screening and click Company Screening Under Company Details select Company Type Select... View Details

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

19 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

to economic growth and used my first summer internship to put my newly acquired skills to use. That summer, I worked at the Rwanda Development Board, a government agency whose mandate is to facilitate private investment into the country.... View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

and the Impact on Innovation, you explore the implications of the recent collapse in venture activity on innovation. Given recent cuts in corporate support for R&D, do you feel this is cause for concern to the innovation process? Or do you feel private equity View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Emily Tekamp Archives | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details

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Arnaud Pincet Archives | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details

15 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 15

refinement to use is critical because it can lead to dramatically different predicted outcomes. To better understand which refinement is more predictive of actual behavior, we conduct a controlled experiment in a setting central to operations management-a capacity... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Rick Grinnell

Rick Grinnell is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, focused on investing in AI-enabled security and enterprise infrastructure. As an experienced venture capitalist and operator, Rick has View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women

the investment channels for women entrepreneurs and to facilitate the flow of deals. "In the last few years we have seen a tremendous increase in the numbers of women launching fast-growth ventures in both the high-tech and the... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

in expenses. As a result, our net operating surplus more than doubled, enabling us to invest in the School’s emerging strategic priorities while maintaining a healthy unrestricted reserves balance to spur new initiatives. In view of the... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter Arkle Venture capitalist. Spoken aloud, those two words have a ring of authority that seems to lift the profession above the realm of mere mortals. Headlines can confirm that otherworldly aura, with some View Details

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