State Funding - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2023
News

Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth

Australian brand Maggie Beer. Building on a $5 million early fundraise, Upstreet has opened a funding round to build its share rewards program and begin expansion into the United States and Europe. View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; stock ownership; customer rewards; employee retention; financial literacy; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

almost simultaneously. Coordinated international strikes against U.S. interests, Cohen knows, can only mean one thing: “Terrorism,” she thinks as she throws on some clothes. She tells her husband what’s happened and hurries downstairs. Driving fast through empty... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

Profile

Anddria Clack

Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I have been a student and practitioner of business for several years. I started requesting to attend college-level business camps and internships while I was a still a high school sophomore in... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

young firms, given the uncertainties that were a natural part of the entrepreneurial process," Lerner explained. "General Doriot's idea was to create a new kind of organization that established a selection process, supplied View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

Profile

Aaron Mitchell

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Having a background in Human Resources, I thought it was absolutely necessary to have a broad understanding of business. Earning an MBA at HBS has provided me with not only a deep understanding of how to break down a... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

2014
Chapter

Who Uses the Roth 401(k), and How Do They Use It?

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

Using administrative data from twelve companies that added a Roth 401(k) option between 2006 and 2010, we describe the characteristics of Roth contributions. Approximately one year after the Roth is introduced, 9% of 401(k) participants have positive Roth balances.... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Investment Funds; United States

25 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist

nostalgic: to find and fund the best water entrepreneurs in the world. “The water industry spends $3.6 trillion per year in infrastructure, waste water, irrigation and food production, plumbing and industrial needs as well as chip... View Details

20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

public advisories, and it is regarded as more of a policeman than a partner by national governments. Its many dedicated scientists produce useful reports on the global state of public health, but the WHO's bureaucracy impedes the decisive... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

participants were given the option of donating money to the bundle of state chapters, or keeping the funds for themselves. The researchers then repeated the experiment, offering the bundle of four chapters... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Aug 2014
News

Closing the Education Gap

who is founder and managing partner at Aragon Global Management (AGM), a Chicago-based hedge fund that focuses on global equities. “There is a much higher return on investment in early childhood. It’s more expensive to intervene later and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

15 Sep 2015
News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

less so. Taylor contributed to a not-for-profit to help pay airfare to bring orphans to the United States for month-long summer vacations with prospective adopting families. The program ran so well, he doubled his loan the following year.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

Web

Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

take the perspective of a large-cap mining firm in Mongolia, a domestic conglomerate in the Philippines, a muckraking foreign-run hedge fund in Russia, or the Prime Minister of Bhutan considering the development of a new hydropower... View Details

21 Jan 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

and Denihan Hospitality in the United States (4 generations), can tell you that unity sometimes requires pruning the shareholder tree. But buyouts of family owners rarely happen—even when it is clearly a good option, and even when it's... View Details

Keywords: Retail

21 Jul 2011
News

Social Investing’s Time Has Come

meaningful social impact and earn a financial return based on measurable results. While still new, the idea is gaining traction in the United States and England, where this innovative approach to funding... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

iStockPhoto State laws that require people to wait a few days before purchasing firearms reduce gun-related homicides by 17 percent, new research shows. Waiting periods saved 750 lives per year in the 17 View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2008
News

A U.S. Turnaround?

received a boost from Russia’s launching of a space satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. This was a shock because Russia’s scientific prowess was not taken seriously at the time. The United States committed to putting a man on the moon in the... View Details

Keywords: Byron Wien; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

17 Feb 2015
News

The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

Children) continues to be designed based on the best health research. “At the state level, our researchers and staff have worked to ensure states adopt policies that allow maximum food and other basic needs... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

11 Mar 2017
News

Building from Buffett's Advice

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

involvement in redressing broader problems of society come from many quarters. All three branches of the United States government have addressed the role of the corporation in promoting social welfare. President Bush and Secretary of... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

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