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  • 03 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund

This year, HBS piloted its first student-run Impact Investing Fund, focused on investing in BIPOC-led and owned small businesses in the Massachusetts area. Since launching, the fund has raised $200k,... View Details

    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • 17 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

    Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar; Financial Services
    • August 2007
    • Case

    Lightspeed Venture Partners -- International Expansion

    By: Krishna G. Palepu and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
    Looks at various international expansion models for a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Lightspeed Venture Partners believed that India had tremendous potential for venture capital returns--the question was how best to tap into that potential while also... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Expansion; Investment Return; Global Strategy; Emerging Markets; Investment; International Finance; Organizational Structure; India; Israel
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    • 2021
    • Chapter

    Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s

    By: Sabine Pitteloud
    This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details
    Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland
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    • May 2023
    • Article

    Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation

    By: Elisabeth Kempf, Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer and Margarita Tsoutsoura
    Does investors' political ideology shape international capital allocation? We provide evidence from two settings—syndicated corporate loans and equity mutual funds—to show ideological alignment with foreign governments affects the cross-border capital allocation by... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Flows; Syndicated Loans; Mutual Funds; Partisanship; Polarization; Elections; Political Ideology; Banks and Banking; Institutional Investing; Behavioral Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • September 2014
    • Article

    Accounting Standards and International Portfolio Holdings

    By: Gwen Yu and Aida Sijamic Wahid
    Do differences in countries' accounting standards affect global investment decisions? We explore this question by examining how accounting distance, the difference in the accounting standards used in the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset... View Details
    Keywords: IFRS; Home Bias; Cross-cultural/cross-border; Information Asymmetry; Mutual Funds; International Relations
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    • December 2017
    • Case

    International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

    By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta
    It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact... View Details
    Keywords: Scaling Technologies; Youth Unemployment; Innovation In Nonprofits; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Cash Flow; Labor; Employment; Commercialization; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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    • 16 Oct 2014
    • News

    Innovating for International Aid

    and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in... View Details
    Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
    • June 2012 (Revised September 2015)
    • Case

    The Paris Opera Hotel

    By: Arthur I. Segel and Chad M. Carr
    Real estate investor Javier Faus invests in a luxury hotel development in central Paris, and must select a management company. View Details
    Keywords: Real Estate; International Business; Capital Investments; Investment; Property; Business or Company Management; Real Estate Industry; Paris
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    • Web

    International Students | MBA

    Business School Foundation of Germany (HBSF) Instituto Ling Scholarship Program (Brazil) KHMW-Eizenga Scholarship for Dutch Students (The Netherlands) Kosciuszko Foundation (Poland) Kuwait Investment Authority MBA Scholarship LIFE... View Details
    • 11 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The New International Style of Management

    deceptive veneer of familiarity, cultural gulfs and local differences often remain hidden. There is an increasingly international style of management.— John Quelch, HBS Amid these conflicting realities, however, Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
    • 25 May 2011
    • HBS Case

    QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

    It's a much believed assumption in the retail world: If you're going to compete on the basis of low cost, then you can't afford to invest in your employees. Extensive training—who has the time to give? Regularly scheduled hours?—way too... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
    • 2007
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market

    By: Julie Wulf
    I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Investment; Knowledge Acquisition; Managerial Roles; Resource Allocation; Power and Influence
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    • 17 Jan 2020
    • Blog Post

    Going the Distance for Investment Excellence

    undergraduate at Princeton University, Cameron majored in economics with a minor in finance and spent much of his senior year at the university’s interdisciplinary research centers, The Bendheim Center for Finance and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and View Details
    • 12 Nov 2024
    • HBS Case

    Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

    building to 1,500 employers, 146,000 job seekers, and $3 million in investments from Midwest- and Rocky Mountain-based venture capital firms. Blakeman’s product should have a natural path to expansion by helping companies meet diversity,... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment
    • March 2021
    • Technical Note

    Competitive Strategy in International Construction

    By: John D. Macomber and Emrah Ergelen
    Construction of buildings and infrastructure is one of the largest industries in the world in terms of volume. It is also one of the most physically risky, financially uncertain, and politically impacted. The industry is highly fragmented since there are few economies... View Details
    Keywords: Construction; Infrastructure; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Strategic Planning; Global Range; Construction Industry
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    • November 2012 (Revised May 2013)
    • Case

    Naina Lal Kidwai: Investing in Her Country

    By: Boris Groysberg and Anjali Raina
    This case showcases the 30-year career of Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman of HSBC India, a leading woman business leader globally. It demonstrates how Kidwai spent a lifetime overcoming barriers as a woman in a male-dominated profession and as an Indian in the global... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; India
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    • Article

    The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-Being

    By: Tait D. Shanafelt, Joel Goh and Christine A. Sinsky
    Importance: Widespread burnout among physicians has been recognized for more than two decades. Extensive evidence indicates that physician burnout has important personal and professional consequences.
    Observations: A lack of awareness regarding... View Details
    Keywords: Physicians; Well-being; ROI; Health; Welfare or Wellbeing; Ethics; Investment Return; Health Industry
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    • 2015
    • Article

    International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance

    By: C. Fritz Foley and Kalina Manova
    An emerging new literature brings unique ideas from corporate finance to the study of international trade and investment. Insights about differences in the development of financial institutions across countries, the role of financial constraints, and the use of... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Investment; Trade; Corporate Finance
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