Institutional Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

any initiative to empower the poor and the equally critical importance of available credit to allow poorer families to invest in their future. Despite the plethora of education-related activities and the rapidly growing success stories in... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

which transparency can backfire. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55804 forthcoming PS: Political Science & Politics Informal Institutions and Survey Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq By:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

researchers might be able to address such issues as "how corporate practices contribute to or detract from stable societal institutions or democratic processes, or how might companies advance individual learning and growth, or the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

right-censors the uncertain emissions price and ii) dispatch flexibility, which is the firm's ability to first deploy its most profitable capacity given the realized emissions price. In addition to these managerial insights, we also explore the effect of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2013
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Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

investment in people have remained steadfast as he has grown the company into a leading global financial services firm. In the 1970s, RJF expanded into brokerage offices across the country, working with affiliates that acted as... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2010
News

Chaotic Funding Derails Research

postdoctoral students who are pursuing careers in science. Labs have many different projects under investigation simultaneously. Most labs have annual budgets of $1 million to $5 million, with most of that money coming from grants from View Details

Keywords: William Sahlman; Science funding; stem cell research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

other projects. Third, studying projects requires significant up-front investment to understand the institutional details. When equity holders have too little "skin in the game," moral hazard... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

with a prestigious investment bank but the combined affiliations of the whole group. "I thought having a well-connected head of research from a renowned institution might have the greatest impact,"... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

01 Jan 2007
News

A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

a wide variety of other activities as well. He chairs the boards of two institutions with worldwide reputations—the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Cleveland Institute of Music. And to help the city's... View Details

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53461 2017 Making Research Matter: A Psychologist's Guide to Public Engagement Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using Behavioral Insights By: Dalton,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

Working PapersInstitutional Pressures and Environmental Strategies Authors: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper suggests how institutional theory can explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

Four key trends that have contributed to this changing environment, said Kuemmerle, are: the dot.com wave; the emergence of global start-up firms; capital chasing entrepreneurs; and changes in supporting institutions for entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

01 Oct 2021
News

No Time Like the Present

Sangu Delle (MBA 2016) Sangu Delle always intended to support the educational institutions he attended, including Harvard College, HBS, and Harvard Law School, but he was planning to wait to give back until he’d achieved a certain level... View Details

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Latin America - Global Activities 2020

incentive systems for the loan officers and measured how much more helpful they were to borrowers. We found some substantial increases. Natalia Rigol: Once you change the institutional incentives to align them more with the mission of the... View Details

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

1993), after each launching their careers in investment banking. “Joining ICV was a great experience and eye opening for us because we were used to being in majority environments,” said Tingle. “Also, at a smaller firm you were involved... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Saving Grace

fees to service and administrative charges and investment and withdrawal penalties. Chapman is not alone in his struggle to make sense of a murky system, though his career probably gave him a leg up on the average pensioner—a growing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Faculty & Research | MBA

for their students by investing in extensive training, requesting and utilizing feedback on their teaching, and taking advantage of resources offered by the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning . In fact, teaching is so critical... View Details

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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

the strategies of lean experimentation, minimum viable product, bootstrapping, and staged investment are critical to startups in these emerging ecosystems, one needs to adapt the lessons from mature markets like Silicon Valley, New York,... View Details

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