Publications

November 2017 (Revised February 2019)
Case

Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago (Abridged)

By: Joshua Margolis and Michael Norris

In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, considered his future in Chicago politics. With an unpopular governor and mayor soon up for reelection, should Summers consider running for higher office? Summers reflects on his time growing up in gang-controlled... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development; Career Journey; Career; Career Management; Leadership; Leadership Development; Government and Politics; Personal Development and Career; Public Administration Industry; United States; Chicago

Educators

1990
Book

Investment Banking A Tale of Three Cities

By: Samuel Hayes and Philip M. Hubbard

July – August 2008
Article

Should You Invest in the Long Tail?

By: Anita Elberse

The blockbuster strategy is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits will... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Distribution Channels; Sales; Marketing Strategy; Online Technology; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Retail Industry

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2000
Working Paper

Does Competition Kill Relationships? Inside Investment Banking

By: Bharat Anand and A. Galetovic

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23 Apr 2015
News

How to Embrace Healthy Risk in Investing

1993
Book

The International Political Economy of Direct Foreign Investment

By: B. Gomes-Casseres and D. B. Yoffie

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment

There is growing interest in impact investing, the idea of deploying capital to obtain both financial and social or environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation, one of the largest and... View Details

1999
Chapter

Investing in Distresses Situations: A Market Survey

By: S. C. Gilson

Keywords: Investment; Situation or Environment; Markets

1999
Other Unpublished Work

Private Investment in Infrastructure: Managing Non-commercial Risk

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Risk Management; Investment; Infrastructure

03 Nov 2021

Investing in You: Financial Aid at HBS

Join us to learn more about how the financial aid process is one that invests in the most important resource we have - you! Hear from current students and recent alums about their own financial aid journeys and the ways the Financial Aid... View Details

March 2006
Teaching Note

Investment Policy at the Hewlett Foundation (2005) (TN)

By: Luis M. Viceira

Keywords: Investment

December 1998
Case

Retail Financial Services in 1998: Fidelity Investments

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood

Provides an overview of Fidelity Investment's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry

August 2022
Teaching Note

Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil

By: Mark R. Kramer

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 222-028. View Details