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- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk, and the audience explored the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
don’t have enough capital to invest in the best deals. Why don’t we have the ability to get the same returns as infrastructure limited partnerships or banks or private equity firms?” Here’s the thesis: Nisha has found only two managed... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
productive firms and entrepreneurs. The challenges of catching up were sufficiently great in the Rest that initially, minorities held significant advantages in raising capital and trust levels, which enabled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
how sensitive corporations are likely to be to facing a negative rate of return on their cash holdings. But the goal would be more to trigger behavior that feeds that economy rather than raising revenue for the government. Ideally, firms... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was in the midst of raising View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Standard Chartered. The case describes how Kemp and his team grew this relationship and raises questions about what can be learned from this experience and applied to the other accounts in the SPP. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
a syllabus and course outline, and using established educational theory in practical situations. Mom Hacks: 100+ Science-Backed Shortcuts to Reclaim Your Body, Raise Awesome Kids, and Be Unstoppable by Darria Long Gillespie Da Capo... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011 it raised $30 million in venture capital for the network of 50 websites that featured an entertaining array of user-generated content.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
co-wrote with Lynn Pyun of MIT and B.Y. Cheon of Hanshin University and the Korea Labor Institute. Focusing on South Korea, the team interviewed scores of multinational and local executives to find out whether a firm could raise its... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
domestic savings, has no effect on the financial account, and leads to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBrigham and Women's Hospital: Shapiro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
Now survey the landscape of companies, non-profits, NGOs, start-ups, agencies, and other interest groups that share that vision. And if there are none, go start something!" Katie Hsia-Kiung (MBA 2019), Head of Strategy & Business Operations at Pattern Ag "In 2020,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
survey the landscape of companies, non-profits, NGOs, start-ups, agencies, and other interest groups that share that vision. And if there are none, go start something!" Katie Hsia-Kiung (MBA 2019), Head of Strategy & Business Operations at Pattern Ag "In 2020, ag... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/319032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-403 Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance Accomplice, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, is raising... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49614 October 2015 Journal of Finance The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments By: Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford Abstract—Traditional risk factor models indicate that hedge funds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
too. Perhaps they can offset the upfront cost of capital until order volume reaches the appropriate tipping point. The company can purchase inventory with a traditional financial vehicle from there. —Brad Cowdrey (OPM 49, 2017) I... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
labor materially alters pre-retirement portfolio choice by significantly raising optimal equity holdings. Using this model, we also investigate the welfare costs of constraining portfolio allocations over the life-cycle to mimic popular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
costs.” The HBS Club of Philadelphia has sent 49 community leaders to SPNM since 2001, thanks to its dedicated endowment, says club president David Othmer (MBA 1966). “Our predecessors had the idea to send one or two people to the SPNM program, and they View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
developed a YouTube Channel to translate psychological concepts for lay people. She believes strongly that research should be useful and can inform our every day lives. One series on the channel is Raising Equity, which explores what it... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
frivolous patent-infringement claims made by “patent trolls” affect small firms’ ability to create jobs, raise capital, and survive. Our identification strategy exploits the staggered passage of anti-patent-troll laws at the state level.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne