Alternatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

you receive for your contributions are now labeled "transfer payments" or "expenditures" by the government. But they could, in part, equally well be called "repayment of principal plus interest." This View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

CO-PRESIDENTS Akapelwa, Ernst, and Coates were all drawn to serve as leaders of the Black Investment Club to advocate for equitable access to investing career opportunities. They shared, “We understand the implications of being excluded from the View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

26 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: New York City

EnergyHub offices in Brooklyn to network with each other and discuss their career goals. While there, I met alumni working on a wide range of issues such as investing in the circular economy, starting a company focused on sustainable View Details

15 Dec 2015
News

Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)

strategic vision. He was a founding partner in a Lawrence, Massachusetts, hydroelectric plant which was the first venture to take advantage of the 1978 National Energy Act’s alternative energy incentives. Later, he and his team at J.... View Details

Charles A. Coffin

Coffin led General Electric into the production of other electrical products besides arc lights, including railway motors and alternating generators and transformers. In the late 1890s, Coffin was able to negotiate a patent agreement with... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Jeno F. Paulucci

Paulucci founded Jeno’s Frozen Pizza to capitalize on the growing acceptance of frozen foods as alternatives for dinner. While there were many regional frozen pizza offerings, there was no national brand. Through low cost production... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Fred DeLuca

expanded his operation. By the mid-nineties, there were tens of thousands of Subway shops in the world, far outpacing any competitor. DeLuca designed a new bread making machine to enable his franchises to offer fresh sandwiches everyday and successfully positioned... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Sep 2016
News

The Big Business of Little Loans

the US Small Business Administration and now on the faculty at HBS. The situation worsened during the 2008 financial crisis, and lending to the sector has never really recovered. Armed with proprietary algorithms and can-do attitudes, though, View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

24 Jan 2025
News

The Network Effect

Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details

06 Aug 2008
News

Caution to the Winds

had installed on the White House roof. Imagine if alternative energy had instead been an ongoing national priority for the last thirty years. Wouldn’t the American economy, the country itself, and indeed the rest of the world be much... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

17 Feb 2022
Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

alternatives for feeding the planet. He founded the GFI, he said, to answer a single question: How do we feed 10 billion people by 2050 without burning the planet to a crisp? For Friedrich, finding View Details

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Business School Case 718-005 Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era During the 2016 U.S. election, long-time politician Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management

from hedge funds and mutual funds to alternative investments and passive investing. While only 4% of the class enters investment management after graduation, we have found this relatively small percentage to be the result of limited job... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

25 Feb 2020
News

Beyond the Plastisphere

measure. Unfortunately, not all plastic products can be recycled, or are worth recycling from an economic standpoint: think wrappers, straws, and bottle caps, for example. Solving that problem will require an alternative to conventional... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2002
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

customer service. Harvard Business Review on Managing Diversity. From managing diversity to exploring alternative workplaces to debunking myths about compensation, the topics covered in this compilation address how to build organizations... View Details

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

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

strikingly come to the fore this past year, here in the US and across the world. We have been alternately devastated and heartened by what we’ve seen: civil protests over the repeated, now increasingly publicized police killings of Black... View Details

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

company so dedicated to reinventing agriculture to be more sustainable and less polluting use planet-friendly packaging? It wasn’t an oversight. As founder Viraj Puri recalls, when the company was starting out, his team researched View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

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Depository Retrieval Request Form | Baker Library

use non-print items already onsite (e.g., microfilm), or use an alternative source (digitized version). Who can use this form? Harvard Business School affiliates, Harvard University affiliates, and authorized Baker visitors. (Visitors:... View Details

February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
Teaching Note

X: The Foghorn Decision

By: Kyle Myers and Walter Frick

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 618-060. View Details

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Private wealth management

estate, alternative investments and other areas of interest. Preqin includes information and data on private wealth managers who invest in private equity. Click on Private Equity Click on Investor Click... View Details

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