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- January 2011
- Case
Masdar and Tianjin: Eco-Cities
By: John D. Macomber
Compares Masdar City and Tianjin Eco-City, two high profile "sustainable cities." Each showcases technological and financial innovation. Is it real? Is it replicable and defensible? The case is intended to introduce main concepts and tradeoffs with respect to rapid... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
to arms. Innovation Through Fusion: Combining Innovative Ideas to Create High Impact Solutions by CJ Meadows (DBA 1996) De Gruyter Just as nuclear fusion produces massive energy by combining two nuclei, a... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
When private equity (PE) firms buy a company, they typically follow a standard playbook to create value—streamlining operations, restructuring debt, changing management, and cutting costs. However, as digital technologies and artificial intelligence allow companies to... View Details
- July 2003
- Case
Deutsche Borse
Focuses on how Deutsche Borse's (the German stock exchange based in Frankfurt) acquisition of a 50% stake in Clearstream International, a company specialized in clearing, settlement, and custody of securities across borders, may or may not confirm its position as the... View Details
Chacko, George C., Vincent Dessain, Eli Strick, and Jose-Abel Defina. "Deutsche Borse." Harvard Business School Case 204-008, July 2003.
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
Greg Jarzabek (PLD 21, 2016) was living in London and working in finance when his mother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in her native Poland. Jarzabek wanted to reach out to doctors around the world to review and discuss... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Article
Hurry or Wait: The Pros and Cons of Going Fast or Slow on Climate Change
By: Eleanor Denny and Jurgen Weiss
Climate change risk will likely force the de-carbonization of our electricity sector and thus involve massive investments in long-lived assets using many new and emerging technologies. Since technological progress (independent or dependent on deployment) will likely... View Details
Keywords: Electricity Sector; Environmental Risks; Fat Tails; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Climate Change; Information Technology; Investment; Technological Innovation; Cost vs Benefits
Denny, Eleanor, and Jurgen Weiss. "Hurry or Wait: The Pros and Cons of Going Fast or Slow on Climate Change." Economists' Voice 12, no. 1 (August 2015): 19–24.
- Profile
Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
During her last year of university, Margarita interned at Citibank del Peru's Quality and Innovation area to streamline asset-based finance projects and "reduce workloads." After graduation,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
unique vantage points to evaluate what is happening in the industry today. “First and foremost, what we see is an incredible amount of innovation throughout the energy sector. We see the unit price of delivered energy continue to drive... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Doing Business in Kigali, Rwanda
By: Andy Zelleke, A. Zelleke, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Rwanda. It highlights Rwanda's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2023 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; Transportation Industry; Tourism Industry; Rwanda
Zelleke, Andy, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Wale Lawal. "Doing Business in Kigali, Rwanda." Harvard Business School Case 323-089, March 2023. (Revised June 2023.)
- November 2024 (Revised December 2024)
- Case
Moonfare and the Democratization of Private Equity
By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu
Founded in 2016, Moonfare headquartered in Europe, was a pioneer in the “democratization” of private equity investments. Historically, private equity was accessible only to institutional investors like pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and large family... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Customers; Wealth; Business Strategy; Segmentation; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Financial Services Industry; Europe
Ivashina, Victoria, and Srimayi Mylavarapu. "Moonfare and the Democratization of Private Equity." Harvard Business School Case 225-044, November 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
Jones earned an AB in biochemical sciences from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he joined First Boston, eventually becoming director of the High Yield Finance Group.... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- News
Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
Airlines and a senior advisor at Goldman Sachs, “the education is absolutely fantastic—the capacities to analyze, to understand finance and marketing and human resources, and that spirit of leadership. It’s all there. And when you come... View Details
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand
immediate one of financial services. This highlighted the need for me to gain data fluency and competency—to invest in building out my data and analytics skillset for the sake of my career.” When Ho decided to explore different career options for similar strategy roles... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
Leading Change by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Press) Total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, and restructuring -- innovations intended to make companies more competitive -- routinely fall short, says HBS... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Data-Driven and in Demand
immediate one of financial services. This highlighted the need for me to gain data fluency and competency—to invest in building out my data and analytics skillset for the sake of my career.” When Ho decided to explore different career options for similar strategy roles... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, with a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He is a faculty research fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Corporate... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Why Blockchain’s Ethical Stakes Are So High
- 15 Nov 2013
- News