Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

This fall, Harvard Business School launched its first Impact Investment Fund Course after a successful pilot in the Spring of 2021. The fund expands access to affordable, flexible financing for Black, Brown, and Immigrant-owned businesses... View Details

June 1978
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How Foreign Businesses Decide to Invest in Massachusetts

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Business Ventures; Investment; Massachusetts

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June 1995 (Revised June 1996)
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White Nights and Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry

By: Debora L. Spar

In the latter half of the 1980s, the collapse of the Soviet empire created an unprecedented opportunity for Western businesses. Among those most attracted were the oil firms, who rushed to investigate Russia's vast petroleum reserves. But, as they soon discovered,... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Market Entry and Exit; Foreign Direct Investment; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Russia

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2008
Working Paper

Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit

By: Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala and Monica Singhal

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs "investable" tax credits to spur production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Housing; Renting or Rental; United States

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01 Jan 1978
Conference Presentation

United States Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Egypt

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; International Finance; United States; Egypt

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2025
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How to Choose Among Technologies with Learning Curves: Making Better Investment Decisions

By: Christian Kaps and Arielle Anderer

Learning curves, the fact that technologies improve as a function of cumulative experience or investment, are desirable-think inexpensive solar panels or higher performing semiconductors. But, for firms that need to pick one technology among several candidates, such as... View Details

Keywords: Learning Curve; Technology; Innovation; Batteries; Energy Storage; Sequential Decision Making; TELCO; Exploration; Exploitation; Problems and Challenges; Cost vs Benefits; Technology Adoption; Battery Industry

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December 2004
Article

Foreign Direct Investment in a World of Multiple Taxes

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Taxation

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First time investments in private equity and M&A.

How do I find first time investments in private equity? Use LSEG Workspace to identify first time private equity investments: Click on the Search Tools tab and select Private Equity/VC. Change the Entity Type to Investments. In the text... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

An agent for change through investing and philanthropy

Jim Alexandre (MBA 1983), a private equity specialist, talks about how he is an agent for change through his investments and his personal philanthropy. (Published April 2014) View Details

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing International Trade and Investment Course Number 1166 Professor Meg Rithmire Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Course Overview The course approaches economic interdependence from the perspective of... View Details

2007
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Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and Rafiq Ahmed

Keywords: Investment; Property; Rights

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October 2020
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HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks

By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks

Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in... View Details

Keywords: Banking; Rural Entrepreneurship; Economic Development; Black Entrepreneurs; Economic Growth; Credit; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Rural Scope; Development Economics; Race; Investment; Decision Making; Banking Industry

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Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era

The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details