Investment Opportunities - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments

research on impact investing The Acumen Fund’s Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) on how to grow impact investing Moving the Needle (Fran Seegul, MBA 1998) Making A Difference: Àlvaro Rodríguez-Arregui (MBA 1995)... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

04 Mar 2020
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Risks, Opportunities & Investment in the Era of Climate Change

09 Jan 2014
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Tapping into Opportunity

of some nebulous wish to do good, however. She's doing it because being smart about water will save these organizations a lot of money. "Providing dramatic improvements in how much water we use, and the natural resources for using water, is one of the greatest business... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 Sep 2013
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Women and Sustainable Investing

15 Nov 2023
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Sound Investment

home in Evanston, Illinois, to “improve the quality of life in the immediate neighborhood, provide opportunity to young Black people and uplift the poor Black community,” reports the Evanston RoundTable. After rehab and upgrades, the... View Details

Keywords: diversity; equity; inclusion

01 Dec 2014
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Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships

says. While in high school, he and his father invested in an apartment building that Peter managed while attending Ohio State University. After briefly exploring a career in medicine, he decided to return to his entrepreneurial roots and... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

01 Feb 2000
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Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others

explains Harvey. "He believed in both the free-enterprise system and the use of wealth to provide opportunity for others. When I joined the Enterprise Foundation in 1984, Jim told me, 'Now you're an View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa

Yeboah (not pictured) from the Class of 2018, are the first recipients of the GO: Africa Fellowship. (photo by Susan Young) To support MBA students who want to make a difference in Africa, HBS created the Global Opportunity Fellowship:... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

especially given the substantial investment the students are making in terms of their own time and money. For all three stages, we are deeply grateful to HBS alumni who generously support our financial aid programs as they pay it forward... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

HBS alumni in New York to participate in a voluntary outreach program to help local nonprofit institutions. Bhargava and Misra, who had found early success as an investment executive and founder or three tech startups, quickly became good... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

Our class has lived and worked in a prolonged period of unprecedented economic growth, resulting in great wealth for our nation and opportunities for individual prosperity. Our gift affords us a modest, yet critical role in providing... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Investing in Innovation

for Harvard Business School," said Dean Nitin Nohria in addressing the nearly 600 alumni leaders and invited guests who attended the daylong HBS Campaign Inaugural program, "let us take the opportunity to ask ourselves: When future... View Details

Keywords: HBS Fund; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Building schools to create new opportunities

Joe Schell (MBA 1973), a former investment banker, talks about his leadership role in education for several not-for-profit boards. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities

for reversing the brain-drain phenomenon, highlighting career opportunities on the continent in areas such as commercial and investment banking; manufacturing; consumer services; oil, gas, and mining;... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Impact Investing Could Accelerate the Fight Against Cancer

28 Sep 2021
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Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

which was how the pandemic would affect their careers. In response, CPD made it a priority to ensure that students would still have the breadth of internship and full-time opportunities available to them as did previous classes—a near... View Details

Keywords: Becca Carnahan

09 Mar 2021
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Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Joseph R. Biden Jr., in his “Plan for Education Beyond High School,” encourages investments in community colleges and technical programs as pathways to opportunity that improve student achievement and grow a... View Details