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- September 2017
- Case
Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit
By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,...
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Keywords:
Roll Up;
Private Equity Roll Up;
Aggregates;
Aggregates Materials;
Construction Materials;
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Engineering;
Construction;
Finance;
Capital;
Equity;
Private Equity;
Financial Instruments;
Investment;
Housing;
Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Personal Development and Career;
Management Teams;
Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Value;
Valuation;
Value Creation;
Construction Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Gompers, Paul A., John D. Dionne, and Amram Migdal. "Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit." Harvard Business School Case 218-002, September 2017.
- March 2008 (Revised March 2010)
- Module Note
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture
By: Laura Alfaro
This module note presents a series of case studies taught in the Harvard Business School course Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE). The course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and proposes strategies for...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
International Finance;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Macroeconomics
Alfaro, Laura. "Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture." Harvard Business School Module Note 708-041, March 2008. (Revised March 2010.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Issuance and Design of Sustainability-linked Loans
By: Maria Loumioti and George Serafeim
Sustainability-linked loans (i.e., syndicated loans for which pricing is linked to a sustainability performance indicator) have rapidly evolved into a significant private debt product. We find that sustainability-linked lending has been available mostly to borrowers...
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Keywords:
Sustainability;
Sustainability Management;
Credit Products;
Loan Contracts;
Loans;
Corporate Finance;
Credit Risk;
Environment;
ESG;
ESG Ratings;
Climate Change;
Finance;
Borrowing and Debt;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Credit
Loumioti, Maria, and George Serafeim. "The Issuance and Design of Sustainability-linked Loans." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-027, November 2022.
- May 2014
- Article
Representative Evidence on Lying Costs
By: Johannes Abeler, Anke Becker and Armin Falk
A central assumption in economics is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Several recent models depart from this assumption and posit that some people do not lie or at least do not lie maximally. These models invoke many...
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Keywords:
Private Information;
Lying Costs;
Tax Morale;
Representative Experiment;
Information;
Microeconomics;
Taxation;
Behavior
Abeler, Johannes, Anke Becker, and Armin Falk. "Representative Evidence on Lying Costs." Journal of Public Economics 113 (May 2014): 96–104.
- 14 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Insider Trading Preceding Goodwill Impairments
- 2019
- White Paper
Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy
By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed...
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Keywords:
Impact-Weighted Accounts;
IWAI;
Background;
Economic Systems;
Economy;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Measurement and Metrics;
Financial Statements
Serafeim, George, T. Robert Zochowski, and Jennifer Downing. "Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy." White Paper, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2019.
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
answer might have appeared just too obvious: payouts are funded with free cash flow-at least over long enough time periods. In stark contrast to this commonly held view, we find that firms rely on the capital markets to finance a third of View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Find Books, Articles & More | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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- Web
Finance - Faculty & Research
not necessarily the same GPs. There may be individual firms who consistently perform exceptionally well or exceptionally poorly. Indeed, the most predictive information relates to those GPs who are more consistently in the bottom quartile. The point is that in View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
variation in bond risk premia. Specifically, bond risk premia are high when aggregate MBS duration is high. The model offers an explanation for why long-term rates could appear to be excessively sensitive to movements in short rates and...
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1.11 Leaves of Absence - MBA
Projects 1.18 Field Global Immersion (FGI) 1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) 1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials 1.22 Disability Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School 1.24...
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- Fast Answer
Companies: social responsibility
websites also rate or rank social responsibility: CSRHub: Aggregates data from multiple sources. Free registration is required to see basic data. Monthly subscriptions provide access to finer rating categories. Fortune Change the...
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- Web
Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Materials Robert Lane (MBA 2021), Anthony Valente (MBA 2022) Business Track Co-Winner Integrated materials management platform for construction operators powered by advanced ML algorithms embedded with a...
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- Web
India | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
material for accountants. 55 887 Institute of Chartered Accountants of India /citations/institute-of-chartered-accountants-of-india The site includes reporting standards, news on regulations and taxes, and professional development View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
and logistics solution to buy/sell pre-owned furniture. NeutrallErnesto Humpierres, MBA 2011Our cups have been created out of discarded material, and repurposed to keep them out of landfills. All Neutrall glassware is completely upcycled and sustainable, from the...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
emerged and competed with one another in the early decades of university business education. The first was a simple aggregation of courses taught elsewhere in the university and covering such obviously useful (if intellectually...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
firm, Blackstone, we are focused on creating economic growth by confronting climate change over this critical decade. We’ve committed to a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 15 percent in aggregate for all new investments where we...
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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
investment in a nonprofit was handled strategically it would yield a greater impact for the people served. In an organization with compelling leadership, vision, and evidence of outcomes that were making a material difference in the lives...
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by Julia Hanna
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Waste Management
management. What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 This report aggregates solid waste data at the national and urban level and predicts waste generation to 2030 and 2050. In addition to the waste...
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