Value Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill was so impressed with its... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Aug 2022
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Open Market

first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good

experience to her current position as chief investment officer at ImpactAssets, a $120 million donor-advised fund that invests capital for social and environmental impact through public and private debt and... View Details

06 Jan 2020
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Home Grown

Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that View Details

Keywords: Finance

24 Apr 2014
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Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business

Researching the entertainment industry, Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has found that blockbuster strategies work. Content producers who pursue these strategies make huge investments in a small... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Books

around the globe spend nearly $10 trillion on project- related activities. Yet, as a new book by Cathleen Benko (MBA 1989) and HBS professor Warren McFarlan makes clear, project- and technologyrelated investments too often are made in a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jul 2013
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The Nature of Business

investment opportunities. "Investing in nature can produce very attractive business returns," said Tercek. "Compared with manmade solutions, natural infrastructure often works better, costs less, and appreciates in View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2009
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Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962

Founder and Chairman, Greenhill & Co., LLC Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.A., Philosophy, Yale University, 1958 On Leadership: “Leadership flourishes when the organization values respect and... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

cost of starting firms falls, this lowers the cost of the option, so you will take on higher option value projects. You will potentially take on more of them and focus less on governance in the early stages. It’s what is known as a “spray... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?

creates businesses, jobs, and prosperity? Sorry, I can’t buy that. Earned income has the potential to create the same sort of economic value as investment income. As for the argument that my View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

18 Jun 2014
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Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt

value of loyalty,” he continues. “The Marines taught me to judge people by a simple rule: If you’re running up a hill under fire, will the person at your side stand by you? This value has determined how I’ve... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference

in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2007
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Gore All Business at HBS

balance sheets. If price tags are the only tool used to measure value, said Gore, “then things that don’t have price tags appear to have no value.” In his talk, sponsored by the School’s Leadership and Values Initiative, Gore stated that... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

24 Apr 2014
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Improving the quality of food in Nigeria

mindsets among the local populace—that ‘Made in Nigeria’ products, especially food, are high quality and suitable for consumption—has proved difficult,” says Nwuneli. In addition, fragmented value chains, which are inefficient,... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

on MBAs. Here’s a closer look at three of this year’s offerings. Investing for Impact Professor Shawn Cole, Finance, and Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi, General Management A rapidly growing share of asset owners and managers are making... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé

software bus and plug applications into that." As simple as it sounds, this insight had a dramatic impact on the financial services institutions that were among Ranadivé's first customers. (TIBCO is an acronym for The Information Bus Company.)In 1985, View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Research Online

investment managers and firms. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5648.html. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple’s iTunes music download service and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music downloads offer two contrasting... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

high-stakes decision about whether and where to get an education. Choosing College strips away the noise to help you understand why you’re going to school. What's driving you? What are you trying to accomplish? Once you know why, the book will help you make better... View Details

01 May 2013
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Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991

have been fortunate to build a great business and invest in numerous ventures with HBS alumni around the globe,” Bilden says. “Knowing that HBS alumni share common values has been good for both business and... View Details

26 Sep 2018
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Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

the world that has benefited everything from lemurs in Madagascar to sage grouse habitats of Wyoming, forests in New England to water quality on the Rappahannock River. Such efforts have also a spurred significant innovation in financing tools for the sector, which in... View Details