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- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
Impact of Exposure Ultimately, it was a connection through a HBS classmate that led to talks with Invesco US about their real estate investing internship program. Invesco US saw Straughn-Turner’s passion for...
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Real Estate
- January 2022
- Article
The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry
By: Abhishek Nagaraj
How does public data shape the relative performance of incumbents and entrants in the private sector? Using a simple theoretical framework, I argue that public data reduces investment uncertainty, facilitates the discovery of new market opportunities and increases the...
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Keywords:
Public Data;
Maps;
Gold;
Microeconomic Behavior;
Economics;
Data and Data Sets;
Private Sector;
Market Entry and Exit;
Mining
Nagaraj, Abhishek. "The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry." Management Science 68, no. 1 (January 2022): 564–582.
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries...
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- January – February 2011
- Article
'Bricks and Clicks': The Impact of Product Returns on the Strategies of Multichannel Retailers
By: Elie Ofek, Zsolt Katona and Miklos Sarvary
The Internet has increased the flexibility of retailers, allowing them to operate an online arm in addition to their physical stores. The online channel offers potential benefits in selling to customer segments that value the convenience of online shopping, but it also...
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Ofek, Elie, Zsolt Katona, and Miklos Sarvary. "'Bricks and Clicks': The Impact of Product Returns on the Strategies of Multichannel Retailers." Marketing Science 30, no. 1 (January–February 2011).
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
strategy for success, as she met the founders of CrossBoundary (also HBS alumni) while she was leading the Africa Business Conference as a student. Nneka made an impact on the founders at that conference and, three years later after...
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- October 2019
- Case
Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)
By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their Harvard Business School MBA program fund raising for their start-up venture capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Gender Bias;
Gender Inequality;
Minority Representation;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Investment Management;
Investing;
Inequality;
Race And Ethnicity;
Black Entrepreneurs;
Black Inventors;
Black Leadership;
Venture Investing;
Fund Raising;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Diversity;
Gender;
Race;
Equality and Inequality;
Equity;
Mission and Purpose;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-040, October 2019.
- 28 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms’ Corporate Tax Planning
- 1995
- Chapter
Investment in Pollution Compliance Options: The Case of Georgia Power
By: F. L. Reinhardt and M. Edleson
Keywords:
Pollutants;
Investment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Energy Industry;
Georgia (state, US)
Reinhardt, F. L., and M. Edleson. "Investment in Pollution Compliance Options: The Case of Georgia Power." In Real Options in Capital Investment: Models, Strategies, and Applications, edited by L. Trigeorgis. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.
- Web
My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- March 2016 (Revised April 2019)
- Technical Note
ESG Metrics: Reshaping Capitalism?
By: George Serafeim
In the past twenty-five years, the world had seen an exponential growth in the number of companies reporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. Investor interest in ESG data also grew rapidly. A growing belief that increasing levels of social inequality...
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Keywords:
Capitalism;
Sustainability;
Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Responsibilities To Society;
Environment;
Social Impact Investment;
ESG;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Measurement and Metrics;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Corporate Accountability;
Accounting;
Economic Systems
Serafeim, George, and Jody Grewal. "ESG Metrics: Reshaping Capitalism?" Harvard Business School Technical Note 116-037, March 2016. (Revised April 2019.)
- November 2007
- Case
The 1995 Release of the Institutional Investor Research Report: The Impact of New Information
By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria and Derek Haas
In 1995, Institutional Investor magazine began selling a complete ranking of the best equity research analysts. This report allowed research firms to assess the relative quality of each analyst across the industry, and this enabled firms to know nearly as much about...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Investment Banking;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Reports;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Performance Evaluation;
Banking Industry
Groysberg, Boris, Nitin Nohria, and Derek Haas. "The 1995 Release of the Institutional Investor Research Report: The Impact of New Information." Harvard Business School Case 408-061, November 2007.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act
By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Government Legislation;
Taxation;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Behavior;
United States
Dharmapala, Dhammika, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes. "Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15023, June 2009.
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Making smart investments in companies that solve critical social needs
Lisa Hall (MBA 1993), managing director of impact investing for Anthos Asset Management, talks about her work overseeing a financial portfolio of social enterprises that guarantee a financial return along...
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- Research Summary
Do Appearances Matter? The Impact of EPS Accretion and Dilution on Stock Prices
There is a widespread concern among practitioners and corporate managers that transactions which result in changes in future earnings-per-share (EPS) have real effects on stock prices, irrespective of whether these changes reflect differences in future cash flows. As...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that $150 billion or so of annual...
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Keywords:
Julia Hanna;
Motorola;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- Web
An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
work demands. It’s a journey that began with her father’s investment in her own education—an investment that continues to ripple onward through the changed lives of the hundreds of thousands of girls she has...
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- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
strategy for success, as she met the founders of CrossBoundary (also HBS alumni) while she was leading the Africa Business Conference as a student. Nneka made an impact on the founders at that conference and, three years later after...
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- 2013
- Working Paper
The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance
By: Claire Senot, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Peter T. Ward and Anita L. Tucker
The quality of operational processes is an important driver of performance in hospitals. In particular, processes that reliably deliver both evidence-based and patient-centered care, which we call conformance and experiential quality, respectively, have been argued to...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Experiential Quality;
Conformance Quality;
Clinical Outcomes;
Cost Efficiency;
Quality;
Service Operations;
Health Care and Treatment;
Performance;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry
Senot, Claire, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Peter T. Ward, and Anita L. Tucker. "The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-024, September 2013.
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Investing in Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Investing in Change Chuck Recorr Job Title Philanthropist Location Raleigh, NC Topics Nonprofit Strategy & Governance More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai...
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