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  • 12 Jan 2015
  • News

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
  • 12 Jun 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Public Action for Public Goods

Keywords: by Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer & Rohini Somanathan
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Public Debt and Investment Under Political Competition: Evidence from Toxic Loans

By: Julien Sauvagnat and Boris Vallée
We examine the response from local governments and their voters to a large and exogenous increase in municipal indebtedness. We first show that municipalities with loans that become “toxic” exhibit a reduction in municipal investments as large as the associated... View Details
Keywords: Public Debt; Public Investments; Political Contestation; Toxic Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Investment; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Local Range; Financing and Loans
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  • 09 Nov 2022
  • News

Public Good

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn When she joined United Way Miami in August as the organization’s CEO, Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) made a Friday her first day on the job so she could use the weekend to reflect on all she’d seen and heard. Going forward, she’s stuck... View Details
Keywords: nonprofit management; social enterprise; leadership; United Way; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock

By: Shawn A. Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and John Masko
In early 2021, BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager with $9 trillion in assets under management (AUM)—sought to become a leader in promoting environmental and social sustainability. Over the previous ten years, CEO Larry Fink had written an annual open letter to... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Equity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Public Action for Public Goods

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Public Action for Public Goods

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
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  • 01 Aug 2019
  • News

Investing for Good

Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) is CEO and cofounder of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, she talks about the organizations mission and the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 02 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Private capital, public good

US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • News

Private Sector, Public Good

Keywords: Management
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

this is not what business does or should do, Henderson said. “If managers can support public institutions and provide public goods and make money, why aren't they?” "They... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Teaching Interest

Public Entrepreneurship

By: Mitchell B. Weiss

Public entrepreneurship is designed for future private entrepreneurs and public leaders who want to build new ventures operating in or selling into traditionally public domains.

The last few years have seen a wave of new public entrepreneurs start companies... View Details

Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship
  • September 2020
  • Case

Blackstone: Crocs Investment

By: Victoria Ivashina, John D. Dionne and Terrence Shu
This case follows Prakash Melwani (HBS MBA '86), CIO of Blackstone's Private Equity Group, and his teams’ investment in the footwear company Crocs. Instead of a traditional secondary offering, Crocs opted for a unique deal structure by taking Blackstone's cash in a... View Details
Keywords: Private Investment In Public Equity; PIPE Deal; Investment; Brands and Branding; Strategy
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  • 12 Sep 2012
  • News

Investing in Good Governance

  • 4 May 2012 - 2012
  • Conference Presentation

Corporate Power & Public Good

By: Lynn S. Paine
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  • 04 Apr 2016
  • News

Data Collection is the Ultimate Public Good

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Private investments in public equity

How can I generate a list of private investments in public equity (PIPEs)? In LSEG Workspace: Click on the Search Tools tab and select Private Equity/VC. Choose a Deal Type and View Details
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • News

'Solo' Investing Makes for Good Returns

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Fama-DFA Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing

By: Josh Lerner
Second Place Winner of the 2009 Fama-DFA Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing for his paper with Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, and David Scharfstein, "Venture Capital Investment... View Details