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The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities

By: John D. Macomber
Three trends will drive urban investment, development, and entrepreneurship in the next two decades. This article provides tools to identify the situations and circumstances that will be most favorable for private sector involvement in consideration of these trends.... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Demographics; Private Sector; Investment; City; Infrastructure; Opportunities; Urban Development
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  • August 2008
  • Teaching Note

Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum (TN)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [808125]. View Details
Keywords: Investment; Opportunities; Leveraged Buyouts; Personal Development and Career; Resource Allocation
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  • 26 Feb 2019
  • News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

An experiment in real estate investing is underway in Philadelphia, where Steinbridge Group CEO Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) has made a long-term commitment to less-affluent renters in the city’s most rapidly gentrifying communities. “You want... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2024
  • Lecture

Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 Can Help: And How to Make Them Happen

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Insurance Industry
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  • June 1995 (Revised June 1996)
  • Case

White Nights and Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry

By: Debora L. Spar
In the latter half of the 1980s, the collapse of the Soviet empire created an unprecedented opportunity for Western businesses. Among those most attracted were the oil firms, who rushed to investigate Russia's vast petroleum reserves. But, as they soon discovered,... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Market Entry and Exit; Foreign Direct Investment; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Russia
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  • February 2014 (Revised May 2014)
  • Background Note

Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
This overview describes how the United States funds and finances infrastructure investment to maintain its economic competitiveness. It considers the roles of taxpayers, users, government allocators and lenders, and private investors in the infrastructure funding... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Infrastructure; Technology; United States
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  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 22 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

if we wait for some other person or some other time”. We have a unique opportunity to eliminate the barriers to that prevent Black students from breaking into the investing world. By curating programming... View Details
  • 21 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board

2006 to diversity investments by asset class and geography. Shortly after, in 2010, our organization started recruiting through the on-campus recruiting process at Harvard Business School. We recruit for full-time View Details
  • 31 Mar 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management

excellent opportunity to see how a student with raw talent can develop over 10 weeks. Investing in a “Wintern” The investing learning curve is steep, particularly for first... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

since then I’ve been trying to understand the economic gaps in the United States. Why are large groups of people systemically financially underprivileged?” One answer, Davis soon discovered, is a lack of access to real estate. Davis, now the CEO of real estate View Details
Keywords: April White; Real Estate
  • 26 Nov 2018
  • News

New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Disruption and Opportunity, held in New York City on Nov. 13, drew a crowd of more than 70 alumni and guests, according to the event’s coordinator and club vice president, Chloe Kiernan (MBA 2008) Lassiter explored the range of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs
  • Web

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry Course Number 1564 Senior Lecturer Michael S. Kaufman Executive Fellow Andy Pforzheimer Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Note: Andy Pforzheimer (Harvard... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

at Harvard Business School. Nicholas Howson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, focused his comments on developments in China. Corporate investment in China used to be long-term and brand-focused, he said, with an... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 07 Nov 2014
  • News

Investing for the Long Term in Education

Kim Lew (MBA 1992) is chief investment officer of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she manages $3.2 billion in assets for the corporation. In this interview, Lew discusses how she works to keep close to the original mission of... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

philanthropy and a search for 'give us better practices,' " said Nancy Roob, president and CEO of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF). Joining her on the panel were Matt Bannick (HBS MBA 1993), managing partner of Omidyar Network, a philanthropic View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Recasting environmentalism as a smart financial investment

A former managing director and partner for Goldman Sachs, where he spent 24 years, Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) is inspired by the opportunity to help businesses, governments, and environmental organizations work together in new, innovative... View Details
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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

advance knowledge and practice in the rapidly growing field of investing for impact and scaling for impact. Other Learning Opportunities Sustainable Investing Course HBS Online... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment

that global businesses are using to tackle climate change. What do you believe are some of the most critical challenges and opportunities in the infrastructure investing landscape? There are significant... View Details
  • 07 May 2024
  • Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

during travel. In fact, tourism accounts for about 8% of the world’s carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Pollution from travel also has major impacts on human health. One approach to help offset the negative impact of travel on the... View Details