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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
announced the launch of a new fund Jana Impact. The basic premise is that the fund will be able to generate superior returns by using Jana’s activist approach with companies that are underperforming on ESG metrics. The case examines the... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We consider MFIs as a mechanism to overcome the institutional void of credit for small entrepreneurs in developing... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
ESG dimensions should be mandated by regulation, and if yes, what form such regulation should take. The underlying debate, of course, relates to the broader issue of the role of the business organization within civil society and whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
2006) + More Info – Less Info Can one be a fiduciary and invest sustainably? Are these roles at odds with one another other? What does it mean to be an ESG investor? In this session, we will use a case study on JP Morgan Private Bank to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
customers, investors, and communities a voice and a place at the table when corporate leaders address the climate issues their organizations face. This has manifested in over $30 trillion in investment product under the ESG “label,”... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
this sector. Part of my responsibility at the fund was to review the ESG ratings of companies in Asia that were potential investment targets of this new strategy. Once I was told who the target company was,... View Details
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Learn with Baker Library: LSEG Workspace | Baker Library
engaging, helpful modules on these wide variety of topics. Learn with Baker Library: LSEG Workspace focuses on how to effectively and efficiently leverage the LSEG Workspace platform for your research. Learn how to search and pull analysts' reports and earning call... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
argues that “the majority of this recent green patenting is not driven by highly rated ESG firms but instead by firms that are explicitly excluded from the ESG funds investment... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
environment by accessing finance at better terms. “The whole idea of ESG investing is predicated on the notion that by tilting their portfolios towards securities that have better ESG properties, investors... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
"G" (governance) component of ESG reporting. The governance matters we identify in this paper must be addressed before turning our attention to the broader set of ESG considerations in credit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected inflation, the "nominal-real covariance" of inflation, and the real interest rate with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores
is further solidified by their top ranking in the Sustainalytics ESG risk rating for the construction materials industry group, encompassing over 140 companies. Overall, our visit to JSW Cement was an... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
or heat. Enlightened self-interest still drives investment decisions. Few investors and businesses with whom we spoke were interested in “green” activities or even ESG on their own merits -- since those don’t lead to incremental revenue... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
designed an intervention in which senior managers worked with frontline staff to identify and solve safety-related problems over an 18-month period. On average, the 20 randomly selected treatment hospitals identified 17.3 problems per work area and solved 9.1 of these.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
invited me in on an occasional guest-lecturer basis. When they first invited me five or six years ago, it was clear that I was the broccoli: Now here’s Rebecca, she’s going to talk about climate change and make you feel uncomfortable. In the past, I’ve always had... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
their involvement in the search for climate change solutions. In Episode 10 of Climate Stories, HBS alumna, Amanda Li (MBA 2018), describes her efforts to drive innovation at the intersection of fintech and climate change. “We are not going to meet our climate goals at... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Capital landed on ex-ante rating system for any potential investment that produced a proprietary expected impact. With this tool in place, Root Capital had an integrated picture of impact and financial performance for a loan and across... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid, too, with Congress assessing... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne