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- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
investment against cash flow to survive in a highly cyclical business. Such skills are usually transferable to new environments—and are the most portable type of human capital other than general management skills—but they won't offer an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
deals with ethics, governance, and legal issues. “At that point the case changed to focus on tensions between pricing as a reward for investment in R&D versus making a product available to poor people who will die without it,” says... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
to economic growth and used my first summer internship to put my newly acquired skills to use. That summer, I worked at the Rwanda Development Board, a government agency whose mandate is to facilitate private View Details
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Mi Zhou
of Chinese businesses,” she says, “is rapid growth that overtakes corporate governance. In many cases, there’s very loose control over the business. I worked with one client that had business units making up their accounting numbers. In... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
private capital to fund preventative social programs that address various challenges, such as recidivism, health disparities, and homelessness. If pre-specified program outcomes are achieved, government repays investors and provides an View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
commercial EVs (up to $40,000 for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles) means they will achieve price parity with diesel trucks in 2023, five years sooner than previously forecasted. This is leading to big investments by EV battery... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
version of this process enabled IBM to generate more than $15 billion in growth between 2000 and 2005. Cases & Course MaterialsBrummer and the bracNet Investment Harvard Business School Case 309-065... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications infrastructures provided by the Internet and wireless data networks,... View Details
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Africa - Global Activities 2020
Africa Africa Fellowship Enables Alumni to Accelerate Economic Growth in Africa Pictured: Peak Investment Capital in Ghana works with companies such as Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt to help further their success... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
209-152 Real estate is an increasingly important component in the portfolios of institutional investors. This note discusses the issues these investors must consider when investing in real estate from the legal forms of ownership, to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2010
- Case
Fidelity Retires in Canada
By: Robert C. Pozen and Edward Warren Scott
The head of Fidelity Canada was faced with a decision about what to do with its retirement business there. Although Fidelity as a fund manager has made some headway in Canada, the competition has been very tough for the administration of retirement plans—a separate... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Funds; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Retirement; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Canada; United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Edward Warren Scott. "Fidelity Retires in Canada." Harvard Business School Case 311-023, July 2010.
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
private companies don't have. As such, the team decided to use sales growth as a proxy for investment opportunity responsiveness, since a rise in sales should trigger a rise in View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Immigrant Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
compared to their Mexican counterparts. In Mexico, foreign companies, which had access to financial markets abroad, also had lower average connections with banks. I conclude by arguing that even though the Brazil, Mexico and the United States had very different network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
II, America’s policy leaders made bold investments in education, infrastructure, and entrepreneurship that paid off in a four-decade run of prosperity unlike anything the world had ever seen. The need of the hour now is to once again... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
108-092 An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) refocusing process, and 5) takeover by new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
development in Louisiana, a prime vantage point at the intersection of the public and private sectors that allowed him to “envision a future state and bring it to life.” In his new role at VEDP, he was in the midst of developing a comprehensive strategic plan for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
chairman of global private equity investing at Goldman Sachs, Sanjeev observes, “Every business in the world is interacting with science and engineering today. There’s a tremendous need for managers to become more conversant in how... View Details