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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment (joint with Andrew Charlton)
By: Laura Alfaro
We identify a new type of vertical foreign direct investment (FDI) made up of multinational subsidiaries producing intermediate inputs, which are of similar skill intensity to the final goods produced by their parents, and which are overwhelmingly located in high skill... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda
We examine the extent to which venture capital is adequately positioned for the rapid commercialization of clean energy technologies in the United States. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Energy Generation; Venture Capital; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technological Innovation; Competition; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Ramana Nanda. "Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-020, August 2010.
- December 2011 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Aviva Investors
By: George Serafeim
The Aviva Investors case describes the challenge of integrating sustainability considerations into the strategy and business practices of companies and into the decision making process of the investment community. Steve Waygood, Chief Responsible Investment Officer at... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Investment Management; Shareholder Activism; Disclosure; Stock Exchanges; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Sustainability Reporting; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Social Impact; Activism; Investment; Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; United Kingdom
Serafeim, George, Robert G. Eccles, and Kyle Armbrester. "Aviva Investors." Harvard Business School Case 112-047, December 2011. (Revised May 2015.)
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the health of communities around the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Roles Foundations Play in Shaping Impact Investing
- Web
Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
Investments Field of Study: Leave blank Grade: "Complete" Activities and Societies: Leave blank Description: Alternative Investments is a 5-week, 30-hour online certificate... View Details
- Web
Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
Course Organization The first module provides an overview of the industry, an introduction to key challenges, and the existing evidence base. The second module investigates private market activity with a focus on how firms make View Details
- Web
Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
Business School Online Dates Attended: [The year you participated in the program] Degree: Other; Certificate in Sustainable Investing Field of Study: Leave blank Grade: "Complete" Activities and Societies:... View Details
- Web
Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
wealth. The focus of Investment Strategies is financial markets, principally equity markets, taking the perspective of an institutional portfolio manager and considering the efficacy of value investing, arbitrage, and other View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
countries with limited resources, implies that project finance should continue to loom large in the years ahead. Despite the magnitude of annual investment and recent growth, however, there has been relatively little academic work in this... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Use of Broker Votes to Reward Brokerage Firms’ and Their Analysts’ Research Activities
- 06 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
A Letter from the Women in Investing Club
to also play an active role in addressing them. We are calling on our sponsors and other buy-side firms to evaluate their hiring and retention practices for the investing team, to be thoughtful as they bring... View Details
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Real Estate Investing - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Real Estate Investing Course Number 1475 Lecturer Dwight Angelini Lecturer W. Matt Kelly Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Exam Career Focus This course provides students with the skills and knowledge essential for a career in... View Details
- Winter 2013
- Article
Corporate Governance Reform and Executive Incentives: Implications for Investments and Risk-Taking
By: Daniel Cohen, Aiyesha Dey and Thomas Lys
We investigate the mechanism through which the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) was associated with changes in corporate investment strategies. We document that the passage of the governance regulations in SOX was followed by a significant decline in pay‐performance... View Details
Cohen, Daniel, Aiyesha Dey, and Thomas Lys. "Corporate Governance Reform and Executive Incentives: Implications for Investments and Risk-Taking." Contemporary Accounting Research 30, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 1296–1332.
- 10 Sep 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations
- April 2023
- Case
Strive Asset Management
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia
Strive Asset Management, which launched in 2022, was actively targeting several leading U.S. companies in the upcoming 2023 proxy voting season to stop acquiescing to those large asset managers and other institutional shareholders who were pressing those companies to... View Details
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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Finance & Investing Understanding risk, identifying opportunity, and managing investments in the context of climate change The global financial landscape is increasingly being... View Details
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Women in Investing Club | MBA
dinners and other social activities Club Website http://www.wiihbsclub.com/ Club Email Address wii@studentclubs.hbs.edu Club Co-Presidents Catherine Ding Brynn Jackel Caroline Monrad Sabrina Murphy Club CFO Catherine Ding Mailing Address... View Details
- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board
Organization Melissa Dalmacio, Senior Advisor, Campus Recruitment, CPP Investment Board Describe your organization in three to five sentences. CPP Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the most respected and... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance
By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-110, June 2010.