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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
What does it need to do on the financing side to accommodate the transition of its business model? The company is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is thinking about issuing additional convertible bonds to finance its growth.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
isolation—don’t forget that people who sit together all day in an office without ever exchanging a word or a glance can also feel isolated from one another. Leaders can help convey the norm that isolation is a factor that the team will... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
sell it." He uses as examples the fact that few people pay to have their name not listed in the phone book and the popularity of "free" computers -- where consumers get a computer in exchange for giving out personal information, agreeing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
mispricing in trade imports and exports; country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations; confirmation of beneficial ownership (i.e., naming the real owners, not frontmen) in all banking and securities accounts; automatic... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
$200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in that it had a strictly commercial orientation and market-driven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries. In a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Amram Migdal. "Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment." Harvard Business School Case 318-003, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
Without an individual mandate, instead of buying their own insurance, most of the sick will qualify for subsidized coverage either in the public health insurance exchanges created under health care reform or in Medicaid. Staggering... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
other than price. On the other hand, the most loyal consumers have a price perception that is significantly affected by the nature and value of the targeted offers they receive in exchange for their business, and therefore have a much... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 It's Not the Size of the Gift; It's How You Present It: New Evidence on Gift Exchange from a Field Experiment By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Behavioral economists argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
requires a similar mess of coaxial cables and equipment racks to function. Levy likens the setup to ENIAC, the first programmable digital computer, a room-sized behemoth that sported 18,000 vacuum tubes and resembled the unholy offspring of a fuse box and a telephone... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
digital world," elaborates Upton, a Technology and Operations Management professor with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. The current initiative began with the refitting of the School with an open architecture using Internet-based protocols (ways of regulating how... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
months that included marrying Sarah Abugre, a teacher he met in Ghana; moving with her to the United States; and settling in at Soldiers Field. While pursuing concurrent MBA and MPA degrees at HBS and the Kennedy School, Murphy was delighted to find “so many... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bankers’ preferred conditions exist there. Revenues are sketchy, exchange rate risk is real, political uncertainties abound, and expertise is thin. Yet projects get funded and built. Capital lessons What can be learned? First, direct... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
http://hbr.org/product/fast-ion-battery/an/815025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 115-017 Alibaba Goes Public In 2014 Alibaba debuted on the New York Stock exchange, creating the largest IPO in history, but this initial desire to list on the Hong Kong Stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
will center around the library complex. [Professor] Dave Garvin and others are trying to think through a "reinvention" of Baker Library. How can we make it a center for discovery and the exchange of ideas? How can what we've learned about... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
professor Carl Kester, a member of the Class of 1977, has engaged many students in discussions about leadership. So it seemed fitting for the Bulletin to ask him to coordinate an exchange of views on the topic among a small group of the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
both the exchange and the acceptance of ideas-people really hear your message and become open to it. Cultivating warmth and trust also boosts the quantity and quality of novel ideas that are produced. The best way to gain influence is to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino