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- 19 Aug 2020
- News
A Low-Risk Way You Can Invest In Minority And Women Entrepreneurs
- 24 Feb 2012
- News
Long-term investments in Facebook could be a bad bet, experts warn
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in college students to make the most of their education
ERoe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) talks about his goals for the Stamps Scholars Program, which is offered at more than 25 American universities to help college students make the most of their educational experiences. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Who Ends Up at Jobs in Impact Investing?
By: Shawn Cole, Marcus Sander and Jonah Zahnd
As the impact investing industry has grown, so too has students’ desire to find employment in jobs tasked with the dual mandate of creating financial and social or environmental returns. There is to date relatively little information available on employment in the... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Education; Job Search; Employment; Financial Services Industry
Cole, Shawn, Marcus Sander, and Jonah Zahnd. "Who Ends Up at Jobs in Impact Investing?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 26-006, May 2025.
- February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
BUA Group
By: John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
BUA Group must decide between investments in cement, road building, power generation, or sugar. Private businesses are important to economic development in Africa. Students must assess the competitive nature of each of these industries, the magnitude of capital... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Transportation; Strategy; Project Finance; Agribusiness; Construction; Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
Macomber, John D., Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Wale Lawal. "BUA Group." Harvard Business School Case 222-062, February 2022. (Revised April 2022.)
- August 2022 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
Evaluating the Impact of Hillside Harvest
By: Archie L. Jones, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
In fall 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team had just finished their last round of due diligence on the BIPOC-founded premium hot sauce company Hillside Harvest. They thought the business had a fine performance, showing potential to grow into a successful... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Food; Food and Beverage Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
Jones, Archie L., Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Evaluating the Impact of Hillside Harvest." Harvard Business School Case 823-017, August 2022. (Revised September 2023.)
- 04 Sep 2014
- News
Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS
millions of dollars into research, and removed critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed in 2004, just weeks into his first year at... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises
By: Benjamin N. Roth
I present a model of financing social enterprises to delineate the role of impact investors relative to “pure” philanthropists. I characterize the optimal scale and structure of a social enterprise when financed by grants, and when financed by investments. Impact... View Details
Roth, Benjamin N. "Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-078, February 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- 11 Nov 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules
- June 2009 (Revised March 2010)
- Teaching Note
Hansson Private Label, Inc.: Evaluating an Investment in Expansion (Brief Case)
By: Erik Stafford, Joel L. Heilprin and Jeffrey DeVolder
Teaching Note for 4021 View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- News
Is the Dell Stub the Right Investment for You?: Real M&A
- 04 Mar 2019
- News
How to Navigate Investing in A.I., From Someone Who’s Done It
- August 2022
- Supplement
Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough’s Rise Financial Supplement
By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
Abstract: In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise.... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars
- 2000
- Other Unpublished Work
Revisiting Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment
By: L. T. Wells Jr.
- summer 1992
- Article
Governance, Contracting, and Investment Time Horizons: A Look at Japan and Germany
By: W. C. Kester
Kester, W. C. "Governance, Contracting, and Investment Time Horizons: A Look at Japan and Germany." Continental Bank Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 5, no. 2 (summer 1992): 83–98.
- March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
China: To Float or Not To Float? (D)- Bank of America's Strategic Investment in China Construction Bank
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
With its $3 billion investment in Chinese state bank China Construction Bank, Bank of America--the second U.S. bank behind Citigroup in terms of assets and market capitalization--was one of several foreign banks directly participating in China's banking sector reform.... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Banking Industry; China; United States
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "China: To Float or Not To Float? (D)- Bank of America's Strategic Investment in China Construction Bank." Harvard Business School Case 706-031, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)