Informal Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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 2008
News

What Went Wrong?

Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business news. And I’m no stranger to the type of View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

2011
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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

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01 Sep 2018
News

New Spaces: Convening Power

1982). Seth is president and CEO of the Baupost Group, a Boston-based investment management firm. Beth is president of the Klarman Family Foundation. “We hope that Klarman Hall will be a world-class addition to a world-class institution,”... View Details

Profile

Mariama Keita

was the case method. "For someone like me without a lot of business experience," Mariama explains, "it's a great way to practice real management skills." Information that empowers Mariama grew up in Cote d'Ivoire, a... View Details

20 Jun 2019
News

Reframing Modern Art

Citicorp Investment Bank, first in New York, then in London. Then I came back, and for over 15 years, I worked at Institutional Investor. The last 10 of those years were as managing director of a research group that I helped to launch. By... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

What a Difference a Community Can Make

and strengthening the faculty, recent investments guided by the School’s priorities are also funding innovations such as the Harvard i-lab, the FIELD course, HBX, and joint degree programs with other Harvard schools. From the... View Details

Keywords: John B. Hess (MBA 1977), Chair, The HBS Campaign

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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

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

chief scientific officer, in particular — aren't really the deciding factors for investment bankers," Higgins explains. "It's these executives' professional ties and company connections, their access to View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

Profile

Sophia Virani

Even as she worked in investment banking and hedge funds, Sophia Virani felt drawn to science and medicine. "I really wanted to be in a career that was more service-oriented, that allowed me to interact with people," she says.... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

A Case of Achievement

hired to jump-start a moribund division of the investment bank. Parson’s success at generating business was offset by performance reviews from supervisors and subordinates that painted him as a poor fit in the firm’s collaborative... View Details

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

20 Aug 2024
Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

organization that provides essential services, technology, or connections used by a large number of other participants. Orchestrating an ecosystem as the hub can be a significant undertaking. It often requires a firm to make up-front risky View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Information Technology; Information Technology

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

10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

awarded more than $35 million to 51 early-career researchers, making a long-term investment in the most promising scientists in the field. “The grants they provided are high-octane fuel,” says Dr. Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

30, up from $1.34 billion a year earlier. The total investment return was 12.5 percent. This gain is a reflection of both strong returns and new endowment gifts. The HBS endowment includes more than eight hundred funds established by... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Dec 2004
News

HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report

2.8 percent to a total of $294 million. Commenting on the results, HBS chief financial officer Richard P. Melnick (MBA ’92) notes, “The combination of tight fiscal discipline and renewed revenue growth across the School allowed us to make important View Details