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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
these redlined areas form the shape of a so-called Black butterfly, and they suffer the highest rates of poverty, crime, and chronic disease in the city. Studies show that investment is far lower in predominantly Black neighborhoods than... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
But when I began to research a broader range of measures including investment, phone calls, tourism, and immigration, I found that, surprisingly, the average extent of globalization is only 10 percent. For example, for every dollar of capital View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
than just financial gain,” he stresses. Some of his most successful deals have involved conservation easements that minimize investment risk while creating economic value from parcels that merit conservation. He has worked extensively on... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
recognized that conserved land has many embedded values: limited development (environmentally friendly real estate), sustainable agriculture, carbon sequestration potential, recreation (eco-tourism), water rights, and more. Profits for... View Details
- 12 Jan 2021
- News
Keeping the Coast Clear
recently featured in the Harvard Gazette’s To Serve Better Project. Before landing at Save the Bay, Stone worked as an investment manager and securities analyst in financial services; he also co-founded an... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
Protecting the country’s conservation land while also turning a profit guides the business model at The Lyme Timber Company. David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996), managing director at the timberland View Details
- 19 Aug 2017
- News
Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
As CEO of Landcorps, New Zealand’s largest farming company, Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is a careful observer of food trends. "My job, given that we have got a million acres of land, and that it takes a long time to shift from one land use... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hourdequin (MBA 2005), managing directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire, work hard to make the double bottom line a reality. Founded in 1976, Lyme Timber Company is a timberland investment management organization... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
senior director of financing land conservation at the investment bank Seale & Associates. “We’re finally seeing a real interest in environmental issues by family offices, private equity funds, and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
and began the modern era in Japan. “This is the only city in Japan where the price of land has not gone up since the bubble burst. But now, gradually, Mito has seen an upward trend, with more and more people wanting to View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
Housing costs too much for working-class families. Young adults are forced to live with parents, or cram together. Households spend more money on housing than they can afford. For Americans, the news is depressingly familiar. Israel, a View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
situations as well.” The decision to study alumni connections was borne of the professors' personal school ties: both received their PhDs in finance from the University of Chicago. In 2007, each landed a position in the Finance Unit at... View Details
Matt Higgins
Matt Higgins is one of the preeminent venture investors in next-generation technology companies and beloved consumer brands. Created alongside Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, RSE Ventures has built an expansive multi-billion-dollar View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
Terminal, Bryant Park, and the surrounding neighborhood—working for a time with Dan Biederman (MBA 1977), a pioneer in revitalizing urban spaces through public-private partnerships—Zuckerberg joined the family-owned Samson Investment... View Details
- Portrait Project
JJ Singh
ensure that my brother and I had a stable future. They would rather leave behind a financial foundation than splurge in their twilight. Yet, despite their discipline, they couldn"t account for one irony: their new country, their land... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
report from the Global Center on Adaptation suggests that more than $100 billion per year is needed to invest in infrastructure, weather forecasting, and protecting agriculture in Africa to address both poverty and climate stresses. Yet... View Details