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Home Bias at Home: Local Equity Preference in Domestic Portfolios

By: Joshua D. Coval and Tobias J. Moskowitz

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Local Range; Investment

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22 Jan 2015
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Unpacking the State of the Union

02 Nov 2020
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Accounting for Organizational Employment Impact

Keywords: by David Freiberg, Katie Panella, George Serafeim, and T. Robert Zochowski

13 Apr 2015
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3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

18 Oct 2022
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Startups, Don’t Pin Your Hopes on VC Dry Powder

10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami

The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau. And yet, as market segments... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; illustration by Dan Page; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

25 Nov 2020
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James D. Wolfensohn, Who Led the World Bank for 10 Years, Dies at 86

18 Sep 2019
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Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm

Photo via The Wall Street Journal Photo via The Wall Street Journal Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) is leaving Berkshire Hathaway after a decade to start her own investment firm, reports the Wall Street Journal. Britt Cool is currently the CEO of the Pampered Chef and... View Details

06 Oct 2014
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Why Monopolistic Pension Funds Undermine Capitalism

Keywords: pension funds; capitalism; retirement; monopolies

22 May 2014
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To Crack the Glass Ceiling, Start with Venture Capital

Keywords: women; venture capital; leadership; entrepreneurship

24 Apr 2014
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Building business for a better Brazil

Jorge Paulo Lemann (AB 1961) has built a career focused on strengthening the financial markets of Brazil. As a senior partner of Banco Garantia, he was the leading force for 25 years behind Brazil’s premier investment bank. Lemann transformed the national economy,... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Stealth Mogul

Sometimes it pays to be nearly invisible. Just ask Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983). He heads one of the most successful media and telecommunications investment firms you’ve probably never heard of — Providence Equity Partners. “My own mother doesn’t know what I do,” he only... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four

starting a business .” Todd Krasnow (MBA ’83), an EiR from 2006 to 2007, describes the year as “all the fun of being on the HBS faculty without the heavy lifting.” He held brown-bag lunches, sat in on classes, and coauthored a case with Roberts and Sahlman on View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

07 Dec 2010
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equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2022
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Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

also benefited, the researchers write. Have tech clusters peaked? Even with the changes, the five biggest US metro areas since 1980 “have remained mostly prosperous and often hold leading positions in important sectors,” such as entertainment media in Los Angeles and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Sep 2020
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Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

number of additional analyses we conducted confirm that our findings are most likely driven by changes in individuals’ opportunity costs of starting new ventures as a result of worsening labor market conditions and not by changes in skills, or technological and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2001
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Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

"custom assembly." In the former, managers pick an existing manufacturing system here, a human resources and finance system there, and bring them together to serve the operation's needs. In the latter, bits and pieces of code... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

a nurse, often discussed economic theory, especially as it applied to health care. An economics degree from Princeton was the springboard to a business career that began on Wall Street at Kidder, Peabody. "I learned about finance — skills... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information