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02 Mar 2023
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Perspectives from Capital Creators: Investing in Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Foreign investment in large projects in the Third World

Professor Wells is examining the reasons for instability in foreign investment in infrastructure and other large projects in the Third World, why outcomes differ in different projects, and the tension between the need on the part of investors for credible commitments... View Details

22 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

on my own journey this year with the Black Investment Club and reminded me why I was so determined to get this initiative off the ground before leaving HBS. BIRTH OF AN IDEA In the fall of 2019, during my... View Details

April 2023
Case

Burning the Sails to Save the Ship: The Pilati Family Dilemma

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger

Octavian Graf Pilati, rising generation member of an Austrian princely family, prepared to sell the palace his family had held for over three hundred years. In recent years, the Pilati family lands had been leveraged as loan collateral for an international venture that... View Details

Keywords: Family Office; Family; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agribusiness; Family Business; Property; Identity; Culture; Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governance; Crisis Management; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Austria

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12 Feb 2015
Video

Philanthropy 2.0: Investing with a Purpose

September 2010
Case

Merck: Investing in Science-Based Business (Abridged)

By: Ananth Raman and Inga Katharina Maurer

Ray Gilmartin faces a dilemma. His company's credibility has been damaged by the recent withdrawal of Vioxx, a multi-billion dollar drug. Moreover, the withdrawal of Vioxx would imply that Merck would fail to meet analysts' earnings expectations for 2005 unless... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Cost Management; Production; Research and Development

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July 2020
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Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal

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31 Jul 2013
News

Publicly owned companies need to invest

August 2009
Article

Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles

By: Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel

We use mutual fund manager data from the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the... View Details

Keywords: Asset Price Bubbles; Investment Experience; Investor Age; Trend Chasing; Investment; Experience and Expertise; Age; Behavioral Finance; Price Bubble; Information Technology; Stocks

26 Feb 2019
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

prices, Davis says. This is just the start of an approach that Davis says is both a good investment and a public good. Over the next three to five years, Steinbridge plans to View Details

September 2024
Article

Comprehensive Measurement of Biopharmaceutical R&D Investment

By: Amitabh Chandra, John Drum, Michael Daly, Henry Mirsberger, Samuel Spare, Ulrich Neumann, Silas Martin and Noam Kirson

Keywords: Research and Development; Investment; Pharmaceutical Industry

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March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
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Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers and Amram Migdal

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December 2000
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The Dark Side of Internal Capital Markets: Divisional Rent-Seeking and Inefficient Investment

By: David S. Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein

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2016
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Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

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24 Apr 2014
News

Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives

in the world, helping thousands of patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases in need of matching donors to save their lives. Because a close genetic match is necessary, even with a registry... View Details

August 2008
Teaching Note

Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum (TN)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

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Keywords: Investment; Opportunities; Leveraged Buyouts; Personal Development and Career; Resource Allocation

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11 Jul 2011
News

Mutual Benefit: Investing in the Social

June 2008
Article

Bringing the Context Back In: Settings and the Search for Syndicate Partners in Venture Capital Investment Networks

Most existing network-based theories of relationship formation, whether based on homophily or structural constraint, imply that actors form highly cohesive, homogenous clusters. Yet real networks also include many "bridging" ties—isolated links between parties that... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Networks; Theory; Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Geographic Location

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