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  • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd.

By: David L. Ager
In the Fall of 2014, Heather Berthelette, the recently appointed COO of Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd. (TCIG), was preparing a recommendation to the Board of Directors about whether to dissolve the company and return any remaining funds to the seven... View Details
Keywords: Indigenous Communities; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Economic Growth; Investment Banking; Canada
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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
    • April 2011 (Revised February 2016)
    • Case

    Jamaica's Anemic Growth: The IMF, China and the Debt(th) Trap

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Natalie Kindred
    This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican economy showed relatively strong growth in the 1960s but stagnated in the 1970s. By the end of that decade,... View Details
    Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; International Finance; Crime and Corruption; Poverty; Private Sector; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Jamaica
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    • 08 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise

    changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. Our paper traces a growing pool of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer... View Details
    Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan & Dutch Leonard
    • 26 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26, 2008

    or Politics? Harvard Business School Case 708-053 On March 21, 2008, the U.S. government secured an agreement from two leading sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) to adopt a new set... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

    hit-driven business,” says McDonald. VC firms spread their wealth around to dozens of startups, hoping to hit that one jackpot that might be the next Facebook or Google. The problem comes when they have to choose between supporting one... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
    • 22 Jan 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Robert Meyer, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

    • March 2021 (Revised November 2022)
    • Case

    Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners, called Blue Meridian Partners, to focus substantial long range investments in a few carefully chosen nonprofits.The... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Philanthropy; Scaling; COVID-19 Pandemic; Social Justice; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Venture Capital; Business Model; Social Issues; Poverty; Values and Beliefs; Decisions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Investment Portfolio
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    • December 2008 (Revised October 2009)
    • Case

    Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

    By: David E. Bell and Brian Matthew Milder
    In 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation joined together to form a new organization, AGRA, to tackle the historic challenge of increasing agricultural production in Africa. Launched with much fanfare and led by former U.N.... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Investment Funds; Food; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa
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    • Program

    Investment Management Workshop

    with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Download Brochure Who Should Attend Executives in investment management organizations—including hedge fund firms,... View Details
    • 31 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

    issues in business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth as well as patterns of success and failure in that process. There now exists, after a lag, a compelling stream of research focused on the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets

    Keywords: by Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services; Banking

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • September 2017
      • Case

      Christine Lagarde

      By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
      The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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      • October 1999 (Revised May 2001)
      • Background Note

      Japanese Financial System, The: From Postwar to the New Millennium

      Describes the development of the Japanese financial system, from extensive regulation and fund allocation through administrative guidance in the 1950s to the banking crisis and legal and structural reorganization in the 1990s. Special emphasis is on the processes of... View Details
      Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Financial Markets; Banks and Banking; Japan
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      • 04 Apr 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research, April 4

      School Case 717-003 Sovereign Wealth Funds No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 21 Feb 2007
      • Op-Ed

      What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

      poverty line. And yet, more than a trillion dollars has been spent by bilateral and multilateral organizations since World War II to try to alleviate this problem. The funds that were supposed to help improve people's lives have often... View Details
      Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
      • 27 Feb 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

      entrepreneurial finance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54066 forthcoming Academy of Management Journal We Ask Men to Win & Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding By: Kanze,... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 29 Jan 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: January 29, 2008

      Entrepreneurship Author:Ramana Nanda Abstract This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 20 Feb 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: February 20, 2008

      economicus, model of human behavior that treats managers as selfish maximizers of personal wealth and power. The Homo economicus model implies that a firm's board of directors can best further stockholders' interests by (a) selecting... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace