Informal Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

Charitable Remainder Trust - Alumni

Quarterly payments for life to you and/or the people you choose Charitable income tax deduction Avoid capital gains tax Gift and estate tax savings Your trust can be invested with the Harvard endowment or in alternative tax-efficient... View Details

20 Jan 2015
News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

lifetime in investment banking, met with health industry and digital record experts to learn how to make the industry more efficient. Thus, Health Record Corporation (HRC), parent company of MedKaz, was created. Passionate about his new... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

DBL Partners DBL Partners invests in companies that can deliver top-tier venture capital returns and enable social, environmental and economic benefits. They invest in and help nurture outstanding... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis argues... View Details

2011
Chapter

Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies

By: Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley

This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine aggregate data that captures the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement.... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Analytics and Data Science; Agreements and Arrangements; United States

Citation

Read Now

01 May 2013
News

Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979

over the world.” Lessons gained from the case study method, in particular, have stayed with her. “It’s a discipline that encourages you to step back and learn from many perspectives,” Thoman says, adding that her HBS experience has View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

Guy Spier (MBA 1993) didn’t wait long after graduation to make the biggest mistake of his career. Accepting a vice president’s role at D.H. Blair Investment Banking, the admitted Gordon Gekko wannabe had a front-row seat as several top... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1999
News

Newman's Own Brand of Charity

Newman's Own, Inc., lunched with Dean Kim B. Clark, and fielded students' questions at an informal hour-long gathering sponsored by the Social Enterprise Club. The case, written by Initiative on Social Enterprise chair Professor James E.... View Details

04 Jan 2016
News

Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation

Dick Simon (MBA 1980) is CEO of RSI, Inc., a Boston-based real estate development and investment management company, and founder and chair of the kNOwTHEM Initiative. In this video, he discusses the need for leaders to understand their... View Details

Web

Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

31 Oct 2018
News

Pitching In for Female Leaders

her path through international sports and investment banking to becoming a leading advocate for women in sports and business. “I ran and led a leading football club in Turkey for over a decade. Then I joined the governing body in Turkey... View Details

14 Oct 2014
News

When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now

operations to take advantage of the opportunities, and skirt the dangers raised by the prospect of climate change,” Reinhardt says. Each company must evaluate its use of energy in its own context. In some cases, other firms or governments may need to make complementary... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Of Value and Values

On the Horns of an Investment Dilemma Financial management firms that focus on sustainable investing have been gaining ground for twenty years now. As an example, Principles for Responsible View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Mar 2023
News

The Exchange: Micro Management

flexible contract invested significantly more in their businesses and earned higher returns as a result. Their businesses were bigger three years later, and they are still bigger now, ten years later. That paper was very influential and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

Fast Answer

Foreign direct investment: statistics

available online in World Bank DataBank. World Investment Report From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. For FDI in OECD countries broken down by industry, you can use the OECD's... View Details

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

ESG issues tend to have the best future investment performance. Q: Why is that? A: If we have better information around ESG issues, and it is communicated and used more effectively, then that View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

01 Sep 2012
News

Faculty Books

(Harvard Business Review Press) Drawing on his years of experience studying and advising VC firms, companies, and governments, Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
News

HBS Celebrates Launch of New Legacy Society

Cindy Whitehead (center), the widow of the late John Whitehead, with event hosts Beth (MBA 1984) and Mike (MBA 1982) Fascitelli. (photo by Dana Maxson) Cindy Whitehead (center), the widow of the late John Whitehead, with event hosts Beth (MBA 1984) and Mike (MBA 1982)... View Details

Web

HBS - Financials | Consolidated Balance Sheet

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Consolidated Balance Sheet (all in millions of dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30) Assets 2023 2022 2021 Cash $108 $133 $124 Current Use Reserves 247 227 211... View Details

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

societal progress by creating jobs, investing in communities, and bringing the world much-needed products and services. "In an era of budget austerity and political gridlock, business is called on to play a larger role in providing social... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

Publications