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  • January 2005 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Gobi Partners: October 2004

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
The general partners of Gobi Partners, a venture fund located in Shanghai, are trying to decide the best way to raise money for their first fund. Their strategy of investing in early-stage digital media companies in China was well-received by strategic investors--IBM... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Goals and Objectives; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Conflict Management; Shanghai
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    Samuel L. Hayes

    Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.  He has taught at the School since 1970, prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He... View Details

    • 22 Feb 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

    The Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise is embarking on a new intellectual endeavor to understand a fast-changing and fertilearena — the Social Capital Markets. For years, money given to nonprofits has been thought of... View Details
    Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
    • 16 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16, 2008

      Working PapersMarket Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events... View Details
    • 14 Jul 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: July 14, 2015

    Case 315-109 Pearson Affordable Learning Fund An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Nov 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

    market share within their industry; and this, of course, wouldn't be a great environment for someone to go in and set up a new shop. If there are three or four firms sharing an industry, they're probably making View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 10 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

    matter where and at what price the money to fund an entrepreneurial venture comes from? The answer, it turns out, is that it does matter—a fact that policymakers may benefit from understanding as they look... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • 10 Apr 2019
      • HBS Case

      How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

      Entrepreneurs aren’t short on ideas for exciting new products or companies, but they are often short-sighted when it comes to finding ways to fund and build those projects. “There is a huge amount of discussion about how you come up with... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
      • 19 May 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: May 19, 2009

      California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007.... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 23 Jun 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

      Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano describes, new and old products... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
      • 22 Apr 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

      "Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment," at the Harvard Business School Möbius Leadership Forum on April 12. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, Emeritus. Domini is president of the Domini... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Getaway

      By: Ryan W. Buell and Amy Klopfenstein
      Since its founding, Getaway’s service offering – tiny, modern cabins in the woods, located within a two-hour drive of major metropolitan areas – had been met with tremendous demand. Overworked and overconnected city dwellers reveled in the opportunity to take a break... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Management; Demand and Consumers; Marketing; Strategy; Accommodations Industry
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      • March 2008 (Revised February 2009)
      • Case

      Transparent Value LLC

      By: Sharon P. Katz, Krishna G. Palepu and Aldo Sesia, Jr.
      Leading index company Dow Jones recently signed a license and joint marketing agreement with Transparent Value LLC, the creator of a new fundamentals-based valuation methodology. The agreement allowed Dow Jones to offer a family of indexes based on the Transparent... View Details
      Keywords: Asset Management; Stocks; Price; Performance Expectations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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      • 13 Oct 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: October 13, 2010

      countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct experiments within two very different countries (Canada and Uganda) and show that spending money on others has... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 13 Jan 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: January 13

      voluntary disclosure and marketing decisions. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/StrategicDisclosure.pdf January 2015 Innovation Policy and the Economy Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari,... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        Lauren H. Cohen

        Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
        • 07 Dec 2015
        • Research & Ideas

        The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

        and believe in. Consider that one of those tools, crowdfunding, is on track to account for more investment money than venture capital itself by 2016, rising from just $880 million in 2010 to an estimated $34 billion by 2015. To understand... View Details
        Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

          Adi Sunderam

          Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry
          • 19 Sep 2012
          • Research & Ideas

          Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

          venture investors are not needed. For most of its history, Intel's fund has emphasized making passive investments in a wide variety of companies in selected categories, analogous to a mutual View Details
          Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services