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  • Nov 05 2018
  • Interview

Savvy Investing for the Family Office

  • September 2023
  • Case

Diamond Standard

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Zhaoheng Gong and Grace Headinger
Cormac Kinney, Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard, was on a mission to transform the U.S. diamond market through unlocking the precious gems as market-traded assets. As a serial FinTech entrepreneur, he hoped to add an additional service to his vault: Carats. The... View Details
Keywords: Tokenization; Fintech; Cryptocurrency; Liquidity; Digital; Rare Earth Minerals; Decentralized; Crypto Economy; Financial Product; Metals; Diamonds; Commodity; Assets; Financial Instruments; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Investment; Technological Innovation; Natural Resources; Business Startups; Currency; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 05 Nov 2019
  • News

Bond mutual funds may hold riskier holdings than reported, NBER study finds

  • September 2023 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

Ghassan Nuqul and the Nuqul Group: Preserving a Father's Legacy

By: Christina R. Wing, Lauren Cohen and Alpana Thapar
The Nuqul Group was established in 1952 by Elia Nuqul, a Palestinian refugee who fled his hometown in 1948 with his family to Jordan. He overcame many hardships in his initial years there, but subsequently started a trading business that grew to become one of Jordan’s... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Family Ownership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Succession; Jordan
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  • May 2022
  • Case

Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Thomas de Dreux-Brézé, the Head of Strategy and Project Management at Rawbank Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was perplexed as he reviewed annual adoption rates for the bank’s launch of Illico Cash 2.0. As the bank’s mobile money app, Illico Cash... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Rural; Urban; Emerging Market; Mobile Technology; Finance; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Demographics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Behavioral Finance; Currency; Banks and Banking; Commercial Banking; Financial Strategy; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets; Network Effects; Consumer Behavior; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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  • June 2018
  • Background Note

Introduction to Life Settlements

By: Alexander Braun, Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Jiahua Xu
Life insurance is an asset owned by the majority of American adults (61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Assets; Value; Markets; Investment Return
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen
No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical pattern in green patent... View Details
Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment; Decision Making; Policy; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Patents
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  • Web

Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation By: Lauren Cohen , Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight... View Details
  • September 2017 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Dianrong: Marketplace Lending, Blockchain, and 'The New Finance' in China

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Anthony K. Woo
This case examines the strategic positioning of Dianrong, one of the largest online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms in China, in its attempt to become a foundational player in the expansion of the FinTech sector in Asia. Dianrong had recently announced the... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Internet and the Web; Supply Chain; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Competition; Product Positioning; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China
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  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

and/or Harmful?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-060, May 2025. 'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation By: Lauren Cohen , Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan May 2025 |... View Details
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Lynda M. Applegate, and James Barnett. "Wilburn Medical USA." Harvard Business School Case 825-039, May 2025. 'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation By: Lauren Cohen , Christina R.... View Details
  • November 2020
  • Case

The 1,000-Year Plan: Lee Kum Kee and Sustaining a Family Culture

By: Lauren Cohen, Dawn H. Lau and Billy Chan
The Lee family, whose Hong Kong-based Lee Kum Kee company has established itself as a legend within the Chinese and Asian sauce world, sets out to create a daring new vision of what family legacy means. With the family business having been established in 1888, and by... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Business and Community Relations; Organizational Structure; Strategic Planning
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  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

flexibility and how to redesign management practices to make flexible hybrid work more productive and innovative. How Not to Bankrupt Your Family Professor Lauren Cohen + More Info – Less Info In this... View Details
  • December 2016
  • Article

Industry Window Dressing

By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou
We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers undertake actions—in the form of sales management—to take advantage of these shortcuts. Specifically, we exploit a regulatory provision wherein a firm’s primary... View Details
Keywords: Investor Shortcuts; Industry Classification; Opportunistic Managerial Behavior; Discontinuity; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Sales
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Campaign Leadership Committee - Alumni

Kraft MBA 1965 Jeannie Bachelor Lavine MBA 1992 Jonathan S. Lavine MBA 1992 Jay O. Light DBA 1970 John H. McArthur MBA 1959, DBA 1963 John A. Paulson MBA 1980 Arthur Rock MBA 1951 C. D. Spangler Jr. MBA 1956** Howard View Details
  • 21 May 2019
  • News

Meet The Female Physicist Who Sifts Through Corporate Babble For Trades To Beat The Street

  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810011-PDF-ENG Miracle Life Inc. Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher MalloyHarvard Business School Case 210-039 Miracle Life is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Lauren H. View Details
  • Web

AASU50 - Alumni

Roberto Young, MBA 2007 AASU Award Recipients Each year at the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference, HBSAAA and AASU celebrate a tradition of leadership and service by conferring the Professional Achievement Award... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2018
  • News

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