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  • February 2018
  • Case

Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier

By: Shawn Cole and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
In 2015 Root Capital, a pioneer in the impact investing space, began to explore how to more systematically integrate impact and financial management. After much deliberation, Root Capital landed on ex-ante rating system for any potential investment that produced a... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Investment; Finance; Performance Efficiency; Boston
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  • Research Summary

The Origins, Current State, and Future of Capitalism

By: Sophus A. Reinert
Starting with the dawn of market capitalism in Renaissance Italy, Professor Reinert works at the intersection of economic ideas, policies, and practices in history, particularly as seen through the lens of national strategies in international competition. He seeks to... View Details
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Despite the uncertain climate for start-ups, launching a business continues to hold irresistible appeal for aspiring entrepreneurs. For many African-Americans, entrepreneurship is seen as a means of building community as well as personal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • December 2008 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Paul Capital Partners: Secondary Limited Partnership Investing

By: David S. Scharfstein
This case examines the proposed purchase by Paul Capital Partners of a limited partnership (LP) interest in a private equity fund. Paul Capital has a fund dedicated to buying these "secondary" LP interests. The case is intended as a vehicle for discussing the secondary... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Investment; Private Equity; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Interests; Markets; Debates; Financial Services Industry
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  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

technology, some business experience in the industry, and an MBA—that would be great. Education is an important ingredient, but experience is even more important. Almost no one gets venture capital money without actually having... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
  • 28 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Kicking Off Alumni in Climate Networking Series in Boston

and share ideas. Over 40 alumni and students came to campus to learn more about the local community of HBS MBAs who are making an impact on climate change. Entrepreneurs working on climate change education gaming apps mingled with those... View Details
  • Web

Faculty - Private Capital Project

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the European Central Bank. She serves on the editorial boards of the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. Professor Ivashina... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: The Future of Market Capitalism

Finance, and Industry; Senior Lecturer, HBSSir Ronald M. Cohen, Chairman, Portland Capital LLP, Portland Trust, Bridges VenturesLawrence H. Summers, Director of the White House's National Economic Council; Charles W. Eliot University... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 06 Nov 2014
  • News

Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement

As director of the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), Jodi Goldstein (MBA 1996) has watched a number of innovative student businesses thrive at the space in its three years of operation. But watching those students lose their access to this View Details
  • 3 PM – 8 PM EDT, 25 Oct 2017

HBS Alumnae Circles Open House & Training 2017: Boston

HBS Alumnae Circles are taking new members - are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • News

Learn Your Local Praise Culture

Keywords: corss-cultural communication; globalization; human capital; leadership
  • Web

Investing for Community and Capital Market Impact: SE Summer Fellow Emily Tekamp (MBA 2025) | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

  • 2011
  • Book

Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business

By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Leading Change; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy
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  • November 2010
  • Article

Capitalizing on the Underdog Effect

By: Anat Keinan, Neeru Paharia and Jill Avery
This article presents the results of a study that investigated the use of the underdog effect in marketing. The idea of triumphing over disadvantages by impassioned determination is said to be a powerfully positive image, which can lead consumers to choose a brand over... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Brand Management; Brands; Brand Positioning; Competitive Positioning; Competition; Brands and Branding; Advertising Campaigns; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Advertising Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

’93), head of the South Florida initiative, notes that the alumni base is smaller and more scattered in that region than in Boston or San Francisco, for instance, but is pleased with the results from their first six–month project cycle.... View Details
Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Venture capital sector makes adjustments

  • 2018
  • Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building

The Importance of Entrepreneurship to the Black Community

  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Supporting the local community that nurtured him

Franklin P. "Pitch" Johnson (MBA 1952) talks about providing support to local organizations in his hometown of Palo Alto, California. (Published April 2014) View Details