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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets

By: Ishita Sen, Pari Sastry and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva
This paper studies how homeowners insurance markets respond to growing climate losses and how this impacts mortgage market dynamics. Using Florida as a case study, we show that traditional insurers are exiting high risk areas, and new lower quality insurers are... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Natural Disasters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Insurance Industry; Florida
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  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

important question, though," Shih says. "Should I distribute my suppliers around the world to avoid things like this? We don't know. But the shortages are starting to emerge, and over the next couple of months we'll see a broader View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

great success investing in the utilities, steel, and rubber industries. Although he famously kept a low profile, leaders of business and government consistently sought and received his advice. George F. Baker Jr. Baker appreciated the... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

fence-sitters. It’s important to know who’s who. First, determine who holds the power tools you need—the resources, information or expertise, and support or legitimacy, and then persuade them to invest in the effort. They will also be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Dec 2019
  • News

Championing the HBS Fund

Scholar) that same year. An Investment in R&D While they’ve lived in California since graduation, their ties to Harvard remain strong. In addition to making gifts to Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, they have been annual donors... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Management Reviews Citation of Excellence Award, for Harvard Business Review article ("Should You Invest in the Long Tail", 2008) as one of the top 50 articles with proven impact since its publication date... View Details
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

options. They can invest in new as well as shelved technologies and product designs that are particularly effective in mitigating risk and improving safety—even when they are initially inferior in terms of costs, user-friendliness, or... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

rising stock markets. As a nation, then, we make a substantial investment in foundation philanthropy that goes well beyond the original gifts of private donors. We should therefore expect foundations to achieve a social View Details
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

increased during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Diversification gave firms both financing and investment advantages. First, conglomerates became significantly more leveraged relative to comparable focused firms. Second, conglomerates'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

well as members of the alumni entrepreneurship community. In terms of funding, we provide Spark Grants and Social Impact Fellowships. Another source is the Allston Venture Fund, which is a syndicate of venture capital firms that View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Scott Kyle (MBA 1993) and Patrick Fischer LIV MAS Press The Compound Code reveals insider secrets, effective tools, and strategies you need to manage your investments in good times and bad. In this straightforward and accessible guide,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

were members of Golden Seeds, which invests in women-led companies; Hivers & Strivers, which provides early stage financing to ventures led by US military veterans; and Mark Cuban, who was among the judges during their appearance on Shark... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

constraints, with the impact of that decision affecting everything from just their immediate team to billions of dollars of revenue globally. The beauty of the case method is that it breaks down the most complicated problems to small... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

market was far from welcoming. His dream would, once again, have to be deferred. Instead, Platzer applied his quantitative background at a hedge fund and in other investment management roles. In 2009, though, while at an event at NASA... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography | 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
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

that move faster to meet caregivers’ needs. With those employees goes the substantial investment that companies make in recruiting, retention, and training, says Fuller, who co-leads the Managing the Future of Work project. Raman is the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

current career plans in any way? This summer, I interned at CDC Group, the oldest impact investor in Africa and South Asia, and at EquaLife Capital, an East African investment fund. I found the role of value... View Details