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  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Peculiar Politics of American Disaster Policy: How Television Has Changed Federal Relief

By: David Moss
Particularly since the 1960s, the federal government has played a significant role in financing disaster losses in the United States. The federal government may thus be thought of as providing an implicit form of public disaster insurance. However, unlike many... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Policy; Government and Politics; Media; Natural Disasters; United States
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  • September 2021 (Revised October 2021)
  • Case

Dream: Impact Through Real Estate

By: Michael Chu and John Masko
The Canadian city of Toronto had one of the largest housing affordability problems of any city in the developed world. One company trying to address this problem was Dream, one of the largest real estate groups in Canada. In 2021, Dream had just launched a new system... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Real Estate Development; Renewable Energy; Energy Conservation; Income; Values and Beliefs; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; City; Government Legislation; Immigration; Housing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Property; Business and Government Relations; Civil Society or Community; Human Needs; Sustainable Cities; Environmental Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Real Estate Industry; Canada; Toronto
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How will Emerging Markets Shape the Alternative Assets Arena?

By: Roberto Charvel
This article looks at the growth of pensions in Latin America and its future impact in local alternative assets' investments locally and in the developed world. View Details
Keywords: Emerging Economies; Emerging Markets; Pension; Institutional Investments; Alternative Assets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
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  • August 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Iluméxico: For Every Family to Have Power

By: Brian Trelstad, Isa Oliveres and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
In 2022, Manuel Wiechers, the CEO of Iluméxico, a for-profit social enterprise that provided off-grid solar energy services in rural Mexico, was finalizing his presentation for the company’s upcoming board meeting. In the 12 years since Wiechers had co-founded... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Energy; Energy Policy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Business and Government Relations; Equity; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Energy Industry; Mexico; Latin America
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    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)

      Raymond P. Kluender

      Ray Kluender is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, teaching Entrepreneurial Finance to second-year MBA students.

      He studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how public policy,... View Details

      • 13 Oct 2019
      • News

      About the debate: We have some questions about the future of work we’d like to see asked

      • February 2015 (Revised August 2016)
      • Case

      Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
      "Not another Bochum." Nokia Board Chairman Jorma Ollila was clear in the goals he set for the 2011 restructuring that Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, had decided was necessary to address the dramatically changed competitive environment the company faced in smartphones... View Details
      Keywords: Layoffs; Plant Closure; Outplacement; Shared Value; Business or Company Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Restructuring; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry
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      • Teaching Interest

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      Lena teaches the required first year MBA course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, an elective second year MBA course on Law, Management and Entrepreurship, and an elective second year MBA course on Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. View Details
      Keywords: Compliance; Governance; Fiduciary Duties; Responsibilities To Investors; Responsibilities To Customers; Restaurants; Sustainability; Private Equity Documentation; Start-ups; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Law; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Food; Environmental Sustainability; Private Ownership; Private Equity; Food and Beverage Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Europe; Chile; India

        Sophus A. Reinert

        Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details

        Keywords: banking; defense; education industry; fashion; food; manufacturing; wine
        • Research Summary

        Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

        By: Debora L. Spar
        In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
        • 24 Apr 2019
        • Research & Ideas

        The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

        data based on online prices that produces inflation indices for more than 20 countries. Cavallo admits with a shrug that the revelation Argentina was only reporting about a third of its actual inflation rate didn’t hurt the government... View Details
        Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
        • January–February 2019
        • Article

        Cracking Frontier Markets

        By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon
        Executive Summary:
        With emerging-market giants such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China experiencing slowdowns, investors, entrepreneurs, and multinationals are looking elsewhere. They’ve been eyeing frontier economies such as Nigeria and Pakistan with great... View Details
        Keywords: Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Innovation and Invention; Development Economics
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        By: Boris Vallee
        Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
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        By: Mattias E. Fibiger
        Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

        Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
        Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; Southeast Asia; United States; Finance; International Economy; International Capital Markets; History; International Relations; National Security; Government and Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
        • 26 Sep 2014
        • News

        Has Capitalism Reached A Turning Point?

        • September 2005 (Revised June 2012)
        • Case

        New Songdo City

        By: Arthur I Segel, Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard and Andrew Murphy
        The government of South Korea has chosen John Hynes and Gale International to construct New Songdo City. This is an entirely new city, about the size of Boston, between the new Incheon airport and the capital of Seoul. The proposed city is the government's attempt to... View Details
        Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Urban Development; Construction; Design; Climate Change; South Korea
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        • 2022
        • Working Paper

        Banking on Transparency for the Poor: Experimental Evidence from India

        By: Erica M. Field, Natalia Rigol, Charity M. Troyer Moore, Rohini Pande and Simone G. Schaner
        Do information frictions limit the benefits of financial inclusion drives for the rural poor? We evaluate an experimental intervention among recently banked poor Indian women receiving government cash transfers via direct deposit. Treated women were provided automated... View Details
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          Samuel L. Hayes

          Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.  He has taught at the School since 1970, prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He... View Details

          • 2011
          • Article

          The Causal Impact of Media in Financial Markets

          By: Christopher Parsons and J. Engelberg
          Disentangling the causal impact of media reporting from the impact of the events being reported is challenging. We solve this problem by comparing the behaviors of investors with access to different media coverage of the same information event. We use zip codes to... View Details
          Keywords: Media; Financial Markets
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