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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?

By: Shawn Cole, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
In recent years, impact investors – private investors who seek to generate simultaneously financial and social returns – have attracted intense interest and controversy. We analyze a novel, comprehensive data set of impact and traditional investors to assess how the... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Socially Responsible Investing; Investment Decisions; Public Goods; Impact Investment; Investment; Private Equity; Venture Capital
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  • May 2015
  • Teaching Note

The United Kingdom and the Means to Prosperity

By: Laura Alfaro, Lakshmi Iyer and Hilary White
After struggling through the country's longest recession since 2008, the U.K. was expected to grow faster than any other G7 nation in 2014. Analysts wondered whether the return to growth was because, or in spite of, Prime Minister David Cameron's controversial £113... View Details
Keywords: United Kingdom; Austerity; Fiscal Deficits; Fiscal Policy; Keynesian Multiplier; Government; Government Policy; Recessions; Depression; Inequality; Government Intervention In The Markets; Stagnation; Public Finance; Economics; Macroeconomics; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Public Sector; Economy; Financial Crisis; Taxation; Government and Politics; United Kingdom
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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government

      Royce G. Yudkoff

      Royce Yudkoff is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice of Entrepreneurial Management at the Harvard Business School and a General Partner and co-founder of ABRY Partners, LLC in Boston, MA. Alongside Professor Richard Ruback, Royce currently... View Details

      • October 2005 (Revised December 2006)
      • Background Note

      Funding New Ventures: Valuation, Financing, and Capitalization Tables

      Explains the concept of implied valuation--i.e., the valuation that can be inferred from a financing event--and how such valuations and financings are represented in a "cap" or capitalization table for a new venture. View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Valuation; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans
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      • 24 Feb 2021
      • Blog Post

      My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)

      Business school is a valuable investment in your future. HBS supports that investment through generous need-based scholarships. In addition to scholarships, many HBS students utilize student loans to help meet their portion of the shared investment. If you anticipate... View Details
      • 2017
      • Book

      The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

      By: Mihir Desai
      The Wisdom of Finance takes well-known financial concepts and applies them to our most pressing life issues. The book is philosophical in its approach, but Desai's thesis is peppered with real-life examples of how financial types can and should see the world... View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Financial Institutions; Ethics; Values and Beliefs
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        Andre F. Perold

        André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences,  lower middle market private... View Details

        Keywords: banking; financial services; information; investment banking industry; professional services

          Christina R. Wing

          Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on families in business, and she is the creator of Demystifying the Family Enterprise, a course that explores... View Details

          • 05 Jul 2020
          • News

          Are Stock Investors ‘Irrationally Exuberant’ Again?

            Modern Project Finance: A Casebook

            Written as a guide to the dynamic and increasingly important field of project finance, this casebook provides detailed descriptions and analysis of 20 project-financed transactions. Other books describe what project finance is and how it works.  In this book, Benjamin... View Details
            • 01 Jan 2003
            • News

            • November 1999 (Revised October 2009)
            • Case

            Virtualis Systems (A)

            By: Jay O. Light and Michael J. Roberts
            Describes a second-year MBA's attempts to make money for a fledgling Web-hosting business. As the case ends, he must both sort out the company's business model and financing needs, as well as select from an array of financing and acquisition alternatives. View Details
            Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Web Services Industry
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            • 13 Jul 2017
            • News

            Quiz: Can you find the artists among these entrepreneurs and bankers?

            • October 1993
            • Case

            Analyst's Dilemma (A), The

            By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
            A young investment banker returns home one night to find that her roommate and best friend has been laid off from Universal Bank because Universal is shutting down its capital finance group. Her roommate makes her promise to keep this information confidential because... View Details
            Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Leveraged Buyouts; Conflict of Interests; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty
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            • March 1994 (Revised February 2001)
            • Background Note

            Why Manage Risk?

            By: Peter Tufano
            Conventional finance theory demonstrates that, under simplistic assumptions, firms cannot add to shareholder value through the use of risk management activities. Modern finance theory has begun to carefully consider and examine those circumstances under which firms can... View Details
            Keywords: Risk Management
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            • April 2015 (Revised January 2020)
            • Case

            Japan's Missing Arrow?

            By: Laura Alfaro and Hilary White
            In late December 2014, Shinzo Abe was elected to another term as the prime minister of Japan. His re-election was largely interpreted as a vote of confidence for his economics policies, collectively referred to as "Abenomics." Comprised of three "arrows," including... View Details
            Keywords: Currency; Bonds; Government Bonds; Government Debt; Public Finance; Quantitative Easing; Stimulus; Fiscal Policy; Fiscal Deficits; Debt Management; Debt Reduction; Abenomics; Exchange Rate; Exports; Reform; Economics; Macroeconomics; Policy; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Asia; Japan
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            • July 2011 (Revised September 2018)
            • Case

            Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process

            By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
            Nashton Partners was a search fund founded by two HBS MBA's that raised $500,000 to finance a search for a company that they could purchase and then run for the next five to ten years. The case examines the search fund structure, the two-year search, and two potential... View Details
            Keywords: Acquisition; Capital Structure; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Partners and Partnerships
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            • February 1986
            • Case

            General Foods Corp.: Project Duck Soup

            General Foods must decide whether to acquire Entenmann's Bakery. Price and financing must also be decided. The teaching objectives include analysis of strategic fit, selection of purchase price, and financing method. Another issue is the debt to equity ratio that is... View Details
            Keywords: Acquisition; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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            • March 2001 (Revised October 2001)
            • Case

            Honest Tea

            By: Paul A. Gompers
            This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market. Goldman and Nalebuff must craft an expansion and financing strategy. View Details
            Keywords: Financial Strategy; Expansion; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions
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