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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
- 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
- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
HBS student clubs, the Finance Club promotes finance-related activities and careers to students with a wide variety of finance-related interests, including investment banking. Banks can partner with the club for events and publicize their... View Details
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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
Macomber, John D. "The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 64–74.
- 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 Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Daniel Fox. "Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities." Harvard Business School Background Note 314-094, February 2014. (Revised May 2014.)
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Collaboratory The Social Impact Collaboratory is a multi-faculty effort to advance knowledge and practice in the rapidly growing field of investing for impact and scaling for impact. Other Learning View Details
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Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... 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
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is often lauded for bringing economic growth and know-how to developing countries. The conventional wisdom is not necessarily wrong, but the real story is much more nuanced than is commonly believed, says... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- October 2020
- Case
HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks
By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks
Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in... View Details
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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