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- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
flat-footed on the issue of fuel efficiency? Granted, Detroit was busy catering to consumer demands for more profitable, lower-mileage vehicles. But at the same time, could stretch have given greater urgency to responses to alternative... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Fast Answer
Resources for Harvard Economics Students
and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. An active account can be used to download the Capital IQ excel... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must have credible information... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern finance. It states that... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
Business. At its core, the new system compares a fund manager's investments with those of other successful fund managers, making past performance less important in the rating scheme. In short, funds are rated by the company they keep.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
for growth. During the nineteenth century, most multinational investment in developing countries went into natural resources and related services. These were often enclave investments, like mining towns, with few links to the local... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Charitable Remainder Trust - Alumni
Quarterly payments for life to you and/or the people you choose Charitable income tax deduction Avoid capital gains tax Gift and estate tax savings Your trust can be invested with the Harvard endowment or in View Details
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
time when politicians are looking more actively at the investment vehicles that, directly or indirectly, facilitate risk transfer to insurance companies and pension funds. Political activity will increase... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
developing fresh capabilities for organizations. Based on a study of all the programs offered by the business schools, consultancies, corporate universities, and online education providers, we analyze the advantages, and the constraints, of the existing programs. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
first truly comprehensive endowment management vehicle offered under the TIFF banner. The recent large capital losses suffered by most endowments, including those of Harvard and Yale, had motivated some to question the two basic premises... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
the technology know-how exists today to solve these problems was made clear by all speakers, as well as throughout the participant Q&A and roundtable discussions. NRDC’s Hwang cited energy efficiency; renewables; and electrification of buildings, factories, and View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
shelf?” When they dug deeper, Cohen and his colleagues found evidence that energy sector firms are making substantial investments in alternative energy projects. In particular, energy firms are significant... 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
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
instructive. Blood is Co-Founder of Generation Investment Management. “The short answer is ‘absolutely yes,’ because the alternative of being pessimistic is not a good alternative. I guess the better answer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World -... View Details
- Profile
Rawiah Abdallah
were too many restrictions on freedom of expression," says Rawiah, "To be true to your principles was risky." Yet her volunteer work suggested an alternative direction. In high school, Rawiah tutored non-Arabic speaking... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
technological complexity only magnifies the challenge. Many companies, meanwhile, are apt to see investment in safety as the cost of fulfilling regulatory requirements or protecting against lawsuits, rather than as an opportunity to... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
shuttle. “If you look at the area of space getting the most attention―manufacturing of launch vehicles and satellites―its growth is in fact quite strong.” What’s changed over the past couple decades is that the government-led model, which... View Details