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  • March 2003 (Revised January 2004)
  • Case

CDC Capital Partners: December 2002

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Paul Fletcher, CEO of CDC Capital Partners, a private equity group investing in the world's poorest countries, is wrestling with questions raised by the imminent reorganization of the firm. Previously an arm of the United Kingdom's international aid agency, CDC is... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Privatization; Venture Capital; Business and Government Relations; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 21 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students

born just three weeks earlier on a Zoom call with their Public Entrepreneurship professor Mitch Weiss. Along with about 15 fellow classmates, they expressed feelings of helplessness for the world around them.    On the call, I recounted a story I heard about a View Details
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Hiring Organizations

AxmedRx Ayala Corporation Ayala Land, Inc. Azolla Ventures B B Capital Bain & Company Bain Capital Bain Capital Ventures Balance Rock Partners Bank of America Barry-Wehmiller BC Partners BCG Digital Ventures Beanstalk Benefits Beartown... View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. IBM, 1993–2002 Jean Paul Getty Getty Oil Company, 1956–1976 Amadeo Peter Giannini Bank of America, 1904–1936 Lawrence M. Giannini Bank of America, 1936–1952 Fred M. Gibbons Software... View Details
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

Wellfleet Bank: All That Glisters Is Not Gold Anette MikesHarvard Business School Case 110-011 Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in the world of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Business & Environment

and Energy Solutions, Donna Lee from Calyx Global, UC San Diego Professor David Victor, and Carolyn Weinberg, formerly of Blackrock. Together, they bring perspectives from policy, business, and academia. The conversation explores the role of voluntary carbon markets in... View Details
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Latin America - Global

Direct Cash Transfers End Extreme Poverty? By: Natalia Rigol , Benjamin N. Roth , Sarah Mehta and John Schultz Founded in 2008, GiveDirectly was a nonprofit organization that used direct cash transfers—giving people cash via mobile... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions. The case focuses on two questions: (1) From a shareholder's perspective, how is Apple's cash different from cash in a bank or money market account? (2) Can Apple create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way You Work Author:Leslie A. Perlow Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2012 Abstract Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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About - Business & Environment

About Inspiring innovation at the intersection of business and the environment. Mission The Business and Environment Initiative educates, connects, and mobilizes business leaders to address climate change and other environmental... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

traditional automaker into a technology and mobility services company. This case highlights innovative elements of de Meo’s approach to leading change within an incumbent firm, including pulling mid-level managers out of their day jobs to... View Details
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

School Case 811-029 Bling Nation, a Palo Alto, California startup, was founded in 2007 as a mobile payment service provider that bypassed industry participants such as Visa and MasterCard. Bling Nation partnered with local community View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

analyze conditions under which these attack types are likely to succeed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Unstable Equity? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing Authors:Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Social Responsibility and Impact ; Mission and Purpose ; Organizational Change and Adaptation ; Organizational Culture ; Society ; Civil Society or Community ; Social Issues ; Strategy ; Adaptation ; Banking Industry ; Financial Services... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Mobilization By: Goran Calic , François Neville, Santi Furnari and C. S. Richard Chan February 2025 | Article | Strategic Management Journal Research is scant on how multiple venture attributes combine as “whole packages” of signals (or... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

without deliberate intentions. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and managerial implications of these findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51745 forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Highways and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Our Team - Impact Investments

research examines corporate and household finance in emerging markets, with a focus on insurance, credit, and savings. He has also done extensive work on financial education in the US and emerging markets. His recent research focuses on designing and delivering advice... View Details