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  • 04 Oct 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies

generated by the IRA passage is incredible – like a shot of caffeine,” Amanda said. “Anyone hesitant about growth in sustainable investing and even those questioning ESG View Details
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Helping high achievers achieve even more

As cofounder of Summit Partners, E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) spurred economic growth and created jobs in a broad range of industries, from fiber optics to pathology laboratories, to electronics and semiconductor manufacturers. Established... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2018
  • News

Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman

August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in cost-cutting changes, including 400... View Details
Keywords: Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

globalization of real estate is a positive change for this sector—and for other sectors as well. Real estate investment is about forming relationships, and from relationships come other business opportunities. Cross-border real estate... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
  • Web

Private companies: fast growing | Baker Library

Help Center Private companies: fast growing How can I find (or create) a list of fast-growing private companies? Create a list using Pitchbook : Go to Data > Companies. Go to Key Fields > Ownership Status. Select Private - No Backing and/or Private - Backing. Go to... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too long, complicated, and dense — and end up unread and unrealized.... View Details
Keywords: 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; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Nelson Mandela’s Right-Hand Man

stated that investment is sorely needed to help reduce unemployment, one of South Africa’s most pressing problems. A positive sign, he said, is the increasing involvement of blacks in business. HBS professor Linda Hill, the event’s... View Details
Keywords: Ahmed Kathrada; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

shuttle. “If you look at the area of space getting the most attention―manufacturing of launch vehicles and satellites―its growth is in fact quite strong.” What’s changed over the past couple decades is that the government-led model, which... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace
  • 13 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success

lines of business, rejuvenate the founder's legacy, and put the enterprise on a new growth path. Entrepreneurs (typically family members) working outside the business but with family financial support can keep talented kin inside a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
  • Web

Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

currently developed countries when they first emerged. The course should, in short, appeal to anyone considering spending part of their career working, investing, or thinking outside of the major developed markets. Educational Objectives The majority of economic View Details
  • February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

Doing Business in Nairobi, Kenya

By: Archie L. Jones, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Kuria Kamau
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Nairobi, Kenya. It highlights Kenya's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
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  • 2011
  • Chapter

Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting potential entrepreneurs around the world. Given the important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Investment; Policy; Research
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

interaction of food and labor costs with consumer value. The course may also appeal to future consultants, investment bankers and venture capital/private equity professionals, as well as to students interested in general management,... View Details
  • November 2008
  • Case

Malaysia Airlines (A)

In the first six weeks on the job, the new CEO of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has developed an ambitious turnaround plan, including aggressive job cuts and route eliminations, but MAS's largest shareholder, Khazanah Nacional, the sovereign wealth fund, is tasked with... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Economic Growth; Investment Funds; Sovereign Finance; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Air Transportation Industry; Malaysia
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  • 06 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

training, and college and career prep programs. Over the past two years, she also worked as an investment associate at ICA Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that uses investments to address the gender... View Details
  • March 2005 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

To Trade or Not to Trade: NAFTA and the Prospects for Free Trade in the Americas

By: Lakshmi Iyer
Discusses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the United States, Canada, and Mexico, a decade after it came into force in 1994. Keeping in mind NAFTA's effect on jobs, exports, productivity, and economic growth, policy makers had to decide... View Details
Keywords: History; Agreements and Arrangements; Performance Productivity; Jobs and Positions; Economic Growth; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; North and Central America
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Understanding the global economy from a new perspective

to further economic growth and environmental preservation in the United States and China. “The United States and China need to help power global growth, rebalance the global economy and global investment... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

The New Space Race

This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • Web

Baker Old Class Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family... View Details