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- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
local maize farmers. By providing purchasing commitment and quality standards, the catalyst was able to access seed financing to invest in post-harvest handling and processing equipment, as well as structure... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
overview of the bond ratings industry, including its history, its major players, who uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the potential crack in the dominance of Moody's, Fitch, and S&P.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
diversification and reduce risk. This is the new world of real estate finance which, as my friend Harvard Business School professor Andre Perold will argue, is just catching up with everyone else. Sustainable Development Sustainable... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the private sector. When there are adequate... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
and financial technology, the digital health ecosystem is in its nascent stages and has been waiting for a catalyst to seed the system. This National Health Protection Scheme is expected to provide just this impetus for widespread... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
reimagine the regional ecosystems in which they participate. They should search for systemic, multisector opportunities; mobilize complementary partners; and obtain seed and scale-up financing from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817081-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-051 Unigrains Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
Publications June 2015 Science Financing Experiments By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49313 July-August 2015 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs who also were starting from scratch—those for whom social ventures were still in the very early phases. They identified an ideal data pool through a partnership with Echoing Green, a socially focused investment organization offering two-year fellowships,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
increased the odds of a crisis to 40 percent." “Previous authors had shown that there was some ability to predict financial crises,” says Hanson, a professor of business administration in the HBS Finance Unit. “But we were surprised by... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiate in the right order. Sorting Out The Possibilities When Steve Perlman was preparing to launch WebTV in 1996, he faced a critical sequencing dilemma. He had obtained seed funding, developed the technology to bring the Internet to... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
offerings via acquisitions. McKinsey alone bought over 30 smaller firms to seed new skills and open new client opportunities, which produced challenges in integration and cultural alignment. All of this created heterogeneous professional... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
millions of African farmers and their families achieve food security and lift themselves out of poverty. By 2008, AGRA had assembled a strong leadership team and had funded numerous small projects ranging from seed development to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World, edited by Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic, 151-160. New York: Public Affairs Books, 2010 Abstract Particularly since the 1960s, the federal government has played a significant role in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
different innovation policies can help to explain who finances radical innovations and when and where radical innovation occurs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52506 March 17, 2017 Science How Economics... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
to recent research. Enter the era of “spray and pray,” where venture firms over the last decade have seeded more firms than previously, but with less upfront investment of time and money. As someone who teaches entrepreneurial finance,... View Details