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- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
mutual impact objectives," she observes. Seegull brought her knowledge of how to amplify the power of impact investing to her current position as chief investment officer at ImpactAssets, a $100 million... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk:... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
that whom you know can be just as important as what you know when trying to offset the uncertainty inherent in backing a high-risk startup in an initial public offering (IPO). "Our work suggests that the functional backgrounds or... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
fundraising there were traditionally far more modest, with the bulk of it in Great Britain; buyouts and later-stage investment opportunities were the prevailing mindset; and the requirements of the established stock exchanges made going... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
are putting pressure on intermediaries to do more with the companies that they’ve invested in. That’s in both the public and the private markets. And so at this point I don’t think it’s a question of whether... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
specializes in serving the financial needs of its venture-capital and start-up clients. “They weren’t sure what to do with their lives.” Four years later, venture capital is, at least, out of the rough. “We see a set of improving fundamentals for View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- February 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
In-Q-Tel
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Kevin Book and Ann Leamon
The Central Intelligence Agency establishes a venture-enabled fund, In-Q-Tel, to allow it to access cutting-edge technologies. Fund managers face a variety of difficulties, some similar to those facing other institutionally affiliated venture funds and some unique. View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Problems and Challenges; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; United States
Lerner, Josh, G. Felda Hardymon, Kevin Book, and Ann Leamon. "In-Q-Tel." Harvard Business School Case 804-146, February 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
tradition in architecture when it gave him its Stanford White Award. In his current role of directing real estate investments for his family’s Samson Investment Partners, Zuckerberg works to stay grounded in... View Details
- October 1998 (Revised September 1999)
- Case
Brazil Confronts an Interdependent World
By: George C. Lodge and Cate Reavis
Discusses the politics of change and how Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, elected in 1994, has fought to promote systemic change in Brazil. While his Real Plan has stabilized inflation and attracted foreign investment, the nation's deficit continues to... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Foreign Direct Investment; Equality and Inequality; Change; Social Issues; Public Administration Industry; Brazil
Lodge, George C., and Cate Reavis. "Brazil Confronts an Interdependent World." Harvard Business School Case 799-004, October 1998. (Revised September 1999.)
- Article
Investor Activism and Takeovers
By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor
Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely explained by the ability of activists to force target firms into a takeover: In... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Public Ownership
Greenwood, Robin, and Michael Schor. "Investor Activism and Takeovers." Journal of Financial Economics 92, no. 3 (June 2009): 362–375.
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Ryan Kim
investment banking analyst. He studied Environmental Science & Public Policy in college. Ryan lives in Newton, MA with his wife and two young children. Work Experience: Search Fund/Independent Sponsor... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
The Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) invested over $4 billion in 332 institutions, with more than 68 percent increasing their small business lending by 10 percent or more. The federal government also partnered with state governments... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
sleeves.—Jeff Fagnan Lisa L. Wiersma, Principal, Tribune Ventures, invests around core businesses or newspapers and television stations. Her firm, perhaps not too surprisingly, is particularly interested in ventures that are not driven by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
not invest sufficient capital in their own businesses. Either: a) They can't. b) They won't. 2. Women lack fundamental business skills and experience: a) They do not have strong math skills. b) They have little or no relevant financial... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
businesses to some 200 investors in the audience. The goal of the event was simple: to get financing. "This is about money changing hands," Harvard Business School professor Myra M. Hart, forum co-chair, told the audience. "It is about the opportunity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace