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- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
retailers is not too high, having an online channel can actually increase investment in store assistance levels (e.g., greater shelf display, more-qualified sales staff, floor samples) and decrease profits. Consequently, when the decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
describes Socially Responsible Investing, providing a brief history, description of different socially responsible investing approaches, and overview of selected players and institutions involved in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
©Rick Friedman As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting analysts; the elite. "Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
itself in recent years among institutional investors, partly because of the collapse of the stock market in 2001 and partly because of the high returns for over a decade relative to stocks and bonds. Because of graying populations in the... View Details
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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
the developing world. GEM provides frameworks to understand the processes of economic growth and development; to develop contextual intelligence regarding emerging markets; to manage within a weaker or less formalized institutional... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
last project was completed in the 1960s, when California had a much smaller population, with much smaller bank accounts. Woolf Farming & Processing—along with thousands of other farmers—relies on this aging infrastructure. Stuart Woolf and his father, Jack, before... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator is a partnership between the foundation, Harvard Business School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The alliance is working to eliminate... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
order and devour a pepperoni pizza at midnight, try tackling next week’s grocery list instead. Researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth of customer orders from an online grocer. Their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded middle school, and served as... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
countries, these firms now account for one-quarter of the total merger and acquisition activity of all firms. The larger private equity firms generate fees for investment banking firms that exceed $350 million per year. Shows how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
personal accolades or policy successes. “One shouldn't think one is irreplaceable,” he says. “My real goal is to leave the ministry as a much-improved institution with better-trained and better-paid people, with established procedures and... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
offenders—and some institutional features (such as bad prison conditions) convert ideological differences across judges (to which detainees are randomly matched) into very large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
role of financial intermediaries. In the private equity setting, institutional investors are increasingly eschewing intermediaries in favor of direct investments. To understand the trade-offs in this setting, we compile a proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
government's sustained commitment to keeping China's economy in good health. This allows them to invest with confidence. The Chinese care about China, of course, but they are rooting for America as well. Indeed, the Brazilians, the... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 01 May 2013
- News
Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
culture. The Medical School has been able to use the funds to invest in R&D across HMS and the affiliated hospitals, thereby bringing all the institutions closer together and leveraging the strength of the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
on small samples. Merits and limitations of the competition method are discussed. Download the paper: http://ie.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/erev/QuantitativeCompetition_Aug_12_2009.pdf Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons