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- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Making smart investments in companies that solve critical social needs
Lisa Hall (MBA 1993), managing director of impact investing for Anthos Asset Management, talks about her work overseeing a financial portfolio of social enterprises that guarantee a financial return along with addressing critical social... View Details
- January 2019 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Chinese Infrastructure Investments in Sri Lanka: A Pearl or a Teardrop on the Belt and Road?
By: Meg Rithmire and Yihao Li
In 2015, a surprise presidential election result seemed to imperil Chinese investments in Sri Lanka, which were associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative to build global infrastructure. In the previous decade, China had undertaken two major projects in the... View Details
Rithmire, Meg, and Yihao Li. "Chinese Infrastructure Investments in Sri Lanka: A Pearl or a Teardrop on the Belt and Road?" Harvard Business School Case 719-046, January 2019. (Revised January 2022.)
- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Shanghai Pudong Science and Technology Investment Co., Ltd.: December 2014
By: Josh Lerner
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 822-111. View Details
- October 2016
- Teaching Note
OMV Petrom: Investment as Partnership—When It Takes Three to Tango
By: Dante Roscini and Emer Moloney
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-035. View Details
- 02 Nov 2005
- Conference Presentation
Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital
By: George P. Baker, Nancy D. Beaulieu and Cristian Voicu
- 04 Dec 2013
- News
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
- 04 Nov 2022
- News
To Sustain DEI Momentum, Companies Must Invest in 3 Areas
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
thinking and analytical reasoning skills, complex problem solving, and oral and written communications. Investments that provide students with better insights into the career implications of various courses of study, plus initiatives to... View Details
- Article
The Pursuit of Power Corrupts: How Investing in Outside Options Motivates Opportunism in Relationships
By: D. Malhotra and F. Gino
Across three laboratory studies, this paper illustrates how a common strategic decision aimed at increasing one's own power—investing in outside options—can lead to opportunistic behavior in exchange relationships. We show that the extent to which individuals have... View Details
Malhotra, D., and F. Gino. "The Pursuit of Power Corrupts: How Investing in Outside Options Motivates Opportunism in Relationships." Special Issue on "Social Psychological Perspectives on Power and Hierarchy". Administrative Science Quarterly 56, no. 4 (December 2011): 559–592.
- April 2014 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Aspada: In Search of the Right Structure for Impact Investing
By: Michael Chu and Rachna Tahilyani
Chu, Michael, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Aspada: In Search of the Right Structure for Impact Investing." Harvard Business School Case 314-099, April 2014. (Revised July 2014.)
- 01 Apr 2021
- Podcast
Investing in No-Sacrifice Models for Climate: Nancy Pfund, DBL Partners
Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Partners, one of the first and largest impact investing venture capital firms in the world. DBL seeks to achieve “Double Bottom Line” results for its investors: top tier financial returns as well as meaningful social... View Details
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Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment
By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Market Transactions; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Risk and Uncertainty; Networks; Culture; Complexity; Public Administration Industry
Alcacer, Juan, and Paul Ingram. "Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment." American Journal of Sociology 118, no. 4 (January 2013).
- 27 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
- 2015
- Working Paper
Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners
By: Andy Wu
Wu, Andy. "Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners." Working Paper, November 2015.
- December 1980 (Revised June 1985)
- Background Note
Management Accounting, Part V: Decision Support Systems, Capital Investment Analysis
Dearden, John. "Management Accounting, Part V: Decision Support Systems, Capital Investment Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 181-083, December 1980. (Revised June 1985.)
- 03 Feb 2016
- News
Ethical investing - putting your money where your mouth is
- Article
Investing in What You Know: The Case of Individual Investors and Local Stocks
By: Mark Seasholes and Ning Zhu
This paper tests the performance of individuals' equity investments. We study over 40,000
accounts and 950,000 trades from a large discount broker. Individuals invest heavily in
local stocks and put 14% more into these stocks than a market-neutral portfolio... View Details
Seasholes, Mark, and Ning Zhu. "Investing in What You Know: The Case of Individual Investors and Local Stocks." Journal of Investment Management 11, no. 1 (First Quarter 2013): 20–30.