Investment Fund - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage climate tech start-ups that reduce CO2 emissions by at least 2.5 Gt by 2050. The $110M fund focuses on early-stage companies commercializing novel... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

at Launch Angels, a Boston-based seed stage VC firm, where she managed the Where Funds investments in 13 early stage companies. She co-founded BuysideFX, where she led Product and was a member of the... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars required by his portfolio companies, he wondered how he should position his firm at this stage of development. Should Khosla develop a new fund that focused on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA

aid that considerably reduces the price of our program. Fun[d] facts: Scholarships are free gifts that do not need to be paid back 50% of our students qualify for a need-based scholarship, on average it’s worth $92,000 over 2 years Students can apply to get... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

telegraph varied commodity by commodity and the bulk of communications continued by sea post until the early twentieth century. London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing information and contacts about View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

of the vision requires leaders to invest in the tools, guide their use, and pave the way for transformation. Perhaps the urgency of the current economic crisis can provide the impetus to overcome resistance to change and turn problems... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

the right context, this intense positive energy can act like a gravitational pull that sucks in other workers to invest their time and support, ultimately contributing toward the success of the idea. “Passion, like a smile, is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 May 2013
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Thomas S. Volpe, MBA 1976

fund at HBS “to add fuel to the fire that kindles the entrepreneurial spirit.” In a career that has included leadership roles at firms such as Blyth Eastman Paine Webber, Hambrecht & Quist, and Volpe Brown Whelan & Company—as well as his... View Details

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

“Reimaging Capitalism” into practice by helping funds build investing strategies and philosophy around how they evaluate potential investments via a series of ESG ratings. I’m... View Details

18 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks

Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

entertainment industry really works-and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large. Publisher's link: http://www.blockbusters-thebook.com/ 2006 Journal of Economic Perspectives The Investment Strategies of Sovereign... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

to Clicks: Predicting the Patterns of Cross-Channel Elasticities over Time” ( Journal of Marketing , 2012) with Thomas Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella. Julian De Freitas : Recipient of an Anderson Fund Grant from Harvard... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

policy. Yet this is also one of the biggest opportunities and one where I’m committed to help by investing and growing companies that can help us transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.” Rick Needham HBS MBA 2002, Partner,... View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

fence-sitters. It’s important to know who’s who. First, determine who holds the power tools you need—the resources, information or expertise, and support or legitimacy, and then persuade them to invest in the effort. They will also be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2016
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

Morgan Global Investment Management, Portfolio Manager 2005 Named CEO, J.P. Morgan Private Bank 2005 Joins Board of Directors, U.S. Fund for UNICEF 2009 Named CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management 2013 Launches... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

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Industry Information - Alumni

debate and an exchange of ideas among serious investment practitioners about topics of the day. HedgeWeek.com Hedge Week is a free news source on the hedge fund industry, providing industry updates and... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

reinvested in those endowments. In compliance with the law, HBS accesses the investment appreciation within existing endowment accounts when the terms of the gift require funds to be withdrawn at a rate... View Details

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

and has real investment implications: approximately 75% of the debt issuance funds increased capital expenditures and cash acquisitions. In the cross section, misvaluation affects financially constrained... View Details