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- March 2021
- Supplement
Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (B)
By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2018, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya (known as Krungsri), was considering whether to participate in the first issue of a new financial instrument from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), known as a gender bond. Building on the success of the Green Bond program... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investment; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Instruments; Gender; Financial Services Industry; Thailand
Cole, Shawn A., John Masko, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 221-081, March 2021.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
their very success at product development and fundraising often heightens the chances that they will be replaced. After the founder has successfully met the initial operating challenge of getting the product or service developed, a number... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
work includes papers on "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry" and "The Emerging Position of the Internet as an Advertising Medium." Silk joined the HBS faculty in 1989. Previously, he was the Schell Professor of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Harvard Business School Case 208-099 Primus is a credit derivative product company. How will they weather the credit crisis of 2007? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208099 PublicationsOwnership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
and experiments throughout the company, pursuing systemic and lifestyle shifts that remake the fabric of the firm. Ideas for change and experimentation do not descend from the top down, but rather emerge from all levels of the company and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
South Asia - Global Activities 2021
of the unmet needs of senior executives from fast-growing companies operating in India and other emerging markets,” explains Krishna Palepu, faculty chair of SELPI and the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration. “The... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
more basic factor has been holding back investment: remote work. Lockdowns and rising COVID-19 cases prompted many venture capitalists to literally head for the hills, decamping to vacation homes in Wyoming and Idaho. Even with its close ties to Silicon Valley and... View Details
- Web
For Guests | Commencement 2025
ceremonies will be held outside in most weather conditions, including rain. For Commencement, HBS recommends business casual attire. Other useful accessories to bring include sunscreen, sun hats, umbrellas/ponchos, blankets, sunglasses, and water bottles. View Details
- Fast Answer
Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
that provides funding to social entrepreneurs; offers a fellowship program that provides seed funding to emerging social entrepreneurs J.M. Kaplan Fund - a not-for-profit foundation with $146 million assets under... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
secret that the devices Gazelle collects are important in many domains—ranging from education, to emerging markets, to women's shelters. The press around this could provide a needed boost." —Kathy Korman Frey (MBA 1999) "One, they must... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
economic development decisions to a new level of sophistication. In a cluster, a company can draw on a local supplier base of skilled people, specialized service providers, and local institutions that can provide training and perform... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
new digital technologies with a new logic of capitalism. What kinds of businesses and services do you think could be first in line? A: Exactly how distributed capitalism will emerge and develop will be an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Co-operation and Development (OECD), Americans pay significantly more per unit of health-care service consumed, even though they see doctors less, take fewer pills, and have shorter hospital stays. Americans are “paying more, despite... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
210 is Jess Bloomgarden (MBA 2012), with classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In fifteen minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
intellectual capital and strengthened its relationships worldwide with important constituencies, including alumni, academics, and emerging and established companies. The School has also expanded its efforts to train management faculty... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
"A Balance Between Autonomy and Resources to Help Me Learn."
different function.” Prior to business school, Jon had fulfilled two roles in clean energy: one at a service provider to commercial energy users in the efficiency and demand response space,” and as an associate at an energy analytics... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
By: Jaeker, Jillian Berry, Anita L. Tucker, and Michael H. Lee Abstract—We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
not born but made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each of us. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53588 forthcoming Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
include Lewis Tappan, C. A. Spofford, and Jay Cooke. Collection Guide James McCauley Landis Papers (1924-1945) . Special Collections, Harvard Law School. James Landis was a legal academic and federal regulator. The papers at Harvard Law School relate to Landis’ View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
customers. To me, it seemed like a very interesting challenge. How do you view your mandate as commissioner? There is one overriding mandate emerging from the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: we've got to rewin the confidence of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons