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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
moving toward domestic debt as an alternative source of funding for the current Greek government. See Carmen’s other research work here and Christoph’s other research work here . Related Themes: Global Crisis & Debt Data, Stabilization... View Details
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Research - Private Capital Project
investors like pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and large family... October 2024 Case Continuation Fund Dilemma By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu 2024 Working Paper Bank Runs and Interest Rates: A Revolving... View Details
- 23 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
technology so that we can reach out in a low-cost, scalable way,” Mahajan explains. Rocket targets the least educated and most impoverished families in India. Many parents earn between one and two dollars a day doing construction or... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
came to serve as a major source of short-term financing. In 1958, the investment house launched the One William Street Fund, a mutual fund of diversified holdings funded by shareholders. Expanding their... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Co-Winner Reduce the burden of heart disease in China. Charitable Donations Group Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Raise funds for nonprofits by helping them accept and liquidate real estate transactions. Business Track, 2006 8baorice... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
government funding, dollar for dollar, fuels innovation more effectively than non-government spending. “The data certainly suggest that the current level of government funding of research is paying off,”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
times. Netflix set up a $100 million fund to help creatives like actors, producers, and writers whose jobs are affected by COVID—making Netflix the likely preferred destination for future work by creatives. Walmart is paying suppliers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
providing the funds to help others make or build something, and it helped me recognize that I wanted to be in a company that produced or manufactured something directly. It also showed me the trials as well as the benefits of a small... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
that the taxes they endorsed started out small in scope and size but have multiplied by a factor of eight as a share of our economy, have we gone off course? After all, when an income tax was introduced in 1862 to fund the Civil War, it... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators are willing to pay a dollar to learn more about their recipient. Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
European Central Bank suddenly (and unexpectedly) raises its key short-term interest rate tomorrow, you're probably going to see the euro appreciate, almost immediately. If the central bank of the United States—the Fed—unexpectedly lowers its interest rate, the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management, the $500 million hedge fund he founded in New York; Evolve... View Details
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
Few people enjoy asking for money. Whether you’re selling cookies or seeking a gift to fund medical research, it's rarely easy. “Many people see it as akin to begging,” writes Harvard Business School Professor F. Warren McFarlan in his... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. “They didn’t know it would turn out to be a multibillion dollar industry.” “By definition, when an investor makes an investment, it changes the probability of success” In a new... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to receive View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
subsidiaries were protected from asset seizures by the automatic stay, buying the company valuable time. In addition, relieved of having to pay interest on its debt while in Chapter 11, Lyondell gained access to millions of dollars of... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the... View Details