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Latin America - Global
served over 4 million users across Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, offering solutions in payments, credit, wealth management, and business payment processing. Ualá’s hypergrowth was driven by a record-breaking $350 million View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Carlyle colleagues to raise MBK Partners’ first fund. Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, was an early investor; so was the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Before all that, however, while at... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of US government bond returns. 2014 Working Paper Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis By: Bo Becker... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
wealth management. The number of financial advisory firms grew 41 percent to more than 15,000 between 2015 and 2021, according to Barron’s. Every April, Dimensional Fund queries hundreds of financial... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Communication (42) Investment Activism (12) Investment Banking (6) Investment Funds (12) Investment Portfolio (8) Investment Return (12) Investment (78) Job Cuts and Outsourcing (12) Job Design and Levels (7) Job Interviews (3) Job Offer... View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is people's disproportionate disposition to help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Mathematical Methods; Attitudes; Interests; Perception; Wealth and Poverty
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17585, November 2011.
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Faculty & Research - Global
platform. By early 2022, it served over 4 million users across Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, offering solutions in payments, credit, wealth management, and business payment processing. Ualá’s hypergrowth was driven by a record-breaking... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
knowledge management into the future of Danone. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608067 Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Harvard Business School Case 208-019 In an activist role, the hedge View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
- Supplement
Keroche (E): Considering Additional Capacity
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
This case describes Keroche’s growth after entering the beer business in 2008. Although the company was operating at full capacity and not able to fulfill all of its orders, Tabitha Karanja had set a goal of growing Keroche’s share of the Kenyan beer market from... View Details
Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Alcoholic Beverages; Beer; Beer Market; Premium Beer; Manufacturing; Production; Production Capacity; Capacity; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financing and Loans; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Keroche (E): Considering Additional Capacity." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-394, September 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
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HBS - The year in Review
family’s income and assets—will also be considered in determining aid. This change will help better account for intergenerational wealth differences and help remove a barrier for outstanding candidates from lower socioeconomic... View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups
Ray Dalio (photo via Bridgewater Associates) and Alex Lazarow (photo by Lindsay Upson) In a recent conversation with Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010) gleaned three insights (and one bonus) from the global hedge View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
minorities to majority populations, particularly historically disadvantaged minorities, there's also income gaps, but the wealth gap is just really huge.” What’s more, minority-owned private equity funds... View Details
- July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
Propel
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Food Stamps; EBT; Mobile App; User Research; Financial Services Referrals; Grocery Marketing; Customer Discovery; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Business Model; Research; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Welfare; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; United States
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
with unequal endowments, trust is initially lower yet remains relatively stable. The difference seems partly due to the fact that equal start positions increase subjects' inclination to condition their trust decisions on wealth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
at affordable rates the HBS Impact Investment Fund is part of an important local ecosystem working to build greater equity and diversity in business ownership, and ultimately in wealth creation . The View Details
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
In recent months several high-level leaders have mysteriously lost their way. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and a leading French politician, was arraigned on charges of sexual assault. Before that... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
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Research - Private Capital Project
Srimayi Mylavarapu Founded in 2016, Moonfare headquartered in Europe, was a pioneer in the “democratization” of private equity investments. Historically, private equity was accessible only to institutional investors like pension funds, endowments, View Details
- 07 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back
2023 about a case they read that made an impact on them, how the lessons will help them become leaders who make a difference, and more. Furman Haynes (MBA 2023) Furman is a member of Section H. He will be working to launch an employee-owned company with the goal of... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli