Publications

December 2004 (Revised February 2005)
Case

Cheetah Conservation Fund Bush Project, The

Laurie Marker, head of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, is trying to form a for-profit institution, the Bush Project, to control the bush encroachment problem in Namibia. Bush encroachment not only destroys the general ecosystem, but it also has a harmful impact on the... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; For-Profit Firms; Emerging Markets; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Strategy; Africa

August 2021
Case

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams

In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations

01 Sep 2008
News

WSA Launches Scholarship Fund

The HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA) has announced plans to establish a new scholarship fund and has revived its popular first-year exam review sessions, an idea first suggested by the newly formed Alumnae Advisory Board. The WSA... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

24 Mar 2013
News

A fresh take needed for risky funds

2007
Working Paper

Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers

By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor

We examine long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors between 1993 and 2006. Abnormal returns surrounding investor activism are high for the subset of targets that are... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance

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January 2022 (Revised January 2022)
Case

The Impact Developers Fund

By: Malcolm Baker, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jonathan Wallen and Zach Komes

August 2001
Teaching Note

Intel 64 Fund TN

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for (9-800-351). View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry

May 2001 (Revised June 2001)
Teaching Note

Reuters Greenhouse Fund TN

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Teaching Note for (9-301-012). View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

21 Sep 2015
News

Funding Progress Back Home

“Harvard gives you powerful tools for getting things done in the world,” observes Eric-Vincent Guichard (MBA 1990). “Over time, you more fully appreciate the responsibility that goes with that education.” Guichard, who grew up in rural Guinea, is founder and CEO View Details

External Funding | MBA

External Funding We encourage you to explore all external funding options, above and beyond any scholarships you receive from HBS. You can apply up to $40,000 (total for 2 years) from outside scholarship... View Details

26 Mar 2018
News

Funding Climate Change Solutions

In this video, Ousseynou Nakoulima (MBA 2009), director of the Green Climate Fund, discusses why his organization employs a holistic strategy to its work in developing countries. “The Green Climate Fund is a... View Details

22 Jun 2014
News

Pension funds urged to publish climate risks

November 1999 (Revised December 2009)
Case

The IBET Pension Fund

By: Arthur I Segel

Marisa Caris oversees real estate investments for the IBET Pension Fund. She must value each of the existing eight properties and determine a strategy for going forward. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Valuation; Real Estate Industry

January 2018
Case

Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia

It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Venture Capital; Investment Strategy; Investment; Strategy; Ownership; Valuation; Energy Conservation; Equity; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Efficiency; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom

29 Jul 2017
News

Fund managers challenged to confront lack of ethnic diversity

31 Oct 2017
News

Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names President’s Challenge Fund

16 Dec 2012
News

Not all money market funds are equal

31 Oct 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Mutual Funds as Venture Capitalists? Evidence from Unicorns

Keywords: by Sergey Chernenko, Josh Lerner, and Yao Zeng; Financial Services; Banking

2015
Working Paper

Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Danielle Li and Bhaven N. Sampat

We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to develop a method for flexibly... View Details

Keywords: Economics Of Science; Patenting; Academic Reserach; NIH; Knowledge Spillovers; Patents; Research; Government and Politics