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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
“discover, buy, and sell authentic tour experiences.” Zhang, the founder of travel firm WildChina which serves foreign visitors, launched NewUGo to connect the rapidly growing domestic Chinese travel market to off-the-beaten-path tourism... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
foreign direct investment and the impact of investment on human rights and labor standards. Spar is the author of The Cooperative Edge: The Internal Politics of International... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
managers to portfolio construction? For the first time, Capital Allocators lifts the lid on this opaque corner of the investment landscape. Drawing on interviews from the first 150 episodes of the Capital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
last ten years as executive director of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) in San Francisco. A pioneer in developing VC-like ways of measuring "social return on investment" (SROI), REDF invests substantially in a small View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
open markets and trade began to emerge across Latin America. In recent years, state-owned companies have been privatized, currencies stabilized, and inflation reduced. These changes have helped attract a fresh influx of foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
quasi-judicial processes. Moreover the planning authorities in just about every country still dislike out-of-town retail developments.” Overcoming this resistance requires an “extraordinary” investment in soft costs to enable McArthurGlen... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships,... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
world and a smart investment. “Women and diverse-led companies are highly profitable, yet undercapitalized,” she says. “A perfect arbitrage investment scenario.” Among the seven companies in the WOCstar View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
we may identify exceptional talent in a particular industry," he continues, "set them up with equity in a new operation that's backed by our capital, and then let them go forth, make purchases, and grow." A pioneer in this long-term strategy (which began with an View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
Michael’s views on how his team considers ESG investments, particularly in agriculture, helped shape FarmTogether’s investment process,” Chan explains. Like Chan, Valerie Grant (MBA 1994), SVP and senior View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
diversifying interests, Finansbank grew to become one of Turkey's largest private banks, with 200 branches in 10 countries. Although he sold his interest in the bank in 2006, he remained chairman until last year. Özyeğin now oversees FiBA Group, a $6 billion View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
assumptions built into my portfolio to weather the storms? These are basic questions, but questions that have been mostly ignored over the past several years. What do you recommend as an appropriate mix for the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Initiative (SEI), they did just that. "Even the funding broke new ground," notes former SEI director Laura Moon. "John Whitehead provided staged investments based on meeting certain milestones. We now call that venture philanthropy." The... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
with a group of other investment professionals, has $250 million under management and specializes in later-stage invest-ments in companies that could use a boost in capital to grow substantially. “Our operating philosophy is to View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future
tax and regulatory climate, outstanding talent, workforce development.” Over the course of nearly eight years, the Louisiana Economic Development agency’s efforts attracted companies that included IBM, CGI, CSC (now General Dynamics IT), and Electronic Arts, as well as... View Details