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- 26 Apr 2015
- News
Investors’ climate change ‘gamble’ exposed
- 28 Jan 2015
- News
Our Women Mean Business: Encore Careers After 40
- March 2000
- Case
Magdalena Yesil
By: Myra M. Hart and Mary Rotelli
Magdalena Yesil, investor and former entrepreneur, must decide whether to become a venture partner at US Venture Partners. This case discusses career progression, entrepreneurship, and deciding among career alternatives. Yesil's entrepreneurial experiences include...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career;
Partners and Partnerships
Hart, Myra M., and Mary Rotelli. "Magdalena Yesil." Harvard Business School Case 800-350, March 2000.
- 16 Jun 2015
- News
Huge growth in China’s money funds poses risk
- 20 Aug 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Best Ideas
- 2010
- Case
Vander Mining Partners, IPADE
By: Roberto Charvel
In 2010 Vander Mining was trying to raise one of the few private equity funds specialized in mining. This was difficult among other things because institutional investors did not have a private equity team specialized in mining and emerging markets.
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Keywords:
Real Assets;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Economics;
Metals and Minerals;
Mining;
Assets;
Private Equity;
Public Equity;
Goods and Commodities;
Emerging Markets;
Market Participation;
Mining Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
North and Central America
Charvel, Roberto. "Vander Mining Partners, IPADE." Mexico City: Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE) Case EE 10 C 09, 2010.
- 12 May 2010
- News
Venture Financing and Entrepreneurial Success
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
investors; they evolved toward more friendly approaches. Many countries created new incentives for investors and built investment promotion agencies to attract new companies. The causes were several: Better educated and more experienced...
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- 03 Dec 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Why CalSTRS Chooses to Engage with the Gun Industry
Keywords:
Financial Services
- June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
- Background Note
Market Efficiency
By: Joshua D. Coval, Erik Stafford, Rodrigo Osmo, John Jernigan, Zachary Page and Paul Passoni
Covers how prices react to information, the incentives for bringing information into prices, and the paradox of market efficiency in equilibrium--for investors to work hard keeping markets efficient, they must always be somewhat inefficient at the margin. Uses separate...
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- April 1973 (Revised April 1983)
- Case
Mirassou Vineyards (A)
Examines the decision by Mirassou to test a mechanical grape harvester that requires a major change in growing methods and operations. The machine is unproven and the investor has asked this vineyard to test it for him and commit to use it.
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Keywords:
Technology;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Production;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Wyckoff, Daryl D. "Mirassou Vineyards (A)." Harvard Business School Case 673-105, April 1973. (Revised April 1983.)
- 25 Mar 2016
- Video
Julia Austin, Advisor & Investor, Austinfish
Jacob M. Cook
Jake Cook is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School and an entrepreneur with a deep-seated passion for e-commerce, digital marketing, and AI.
As a Cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- July 2019
- Supplement
Omidyar Network's Impact Investment Framework
By: Vikram S Gandhi
A team of investors at Omidyar Network explore two different investment possibilities in the budding financial inclusion space using their investment framework to consider capital alternatives available for both investments, each of which carries highly divergent...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Micro Finance;
Investment;
Investment Return;
Investment Activism;
Investment Portfolio;
Microfinance;
Framework;
India;
Philippines
Gandhi, Vikram S. "Omidyar Network's Impact Investment Framework." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 320-701, July 2019.
- 07 Nov 2012
- News
‘Solo’ investing makes for good returns
- 25 Mar 2016
- Video
Martin Sinozich, Founding Partner, Venn Capital
- October 2021
- Case
(180) Days of Quibi
By: David J. Collis and Terrence Shu
Mobile streaming app Quibi was ready to take the entertainment world by storm at its April 2020 launch. Backed by $1.75 billion, influential investors from Hollywood to Wall Street eagerly anticipated early success for this brainchild of Meg Whitman, former CEO of...
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Collis, David J., and Terrence Shu. "(180) Days of Quibi." Harvard Business School Case 722-377, October 2021.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Can Implicit Regulation Change Financial Market Behavior? Evidence from Spitzer's Attack on Market Timers
This paper explores a natural experiment setup from the 2003-2004 mutual fund scandals to evaluate the effectiveness of implicit regulation on financial markets behavior. On average, buy-and-hold investors lost 218 basis points annually from 1998 to 2002 to market...
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- July 2010 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
MacroMarkets LLC
By: Robin Greenwood and Luis M. Viceira
MacroMarkets co-founder and CEO Samuel Masucci III is meeting with a strategic partner for his firm. Co-founded with Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, MacroMarkets' main innovation is the "MacroShare," which allows investors to take long or short, levered or...
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Keywords:
Macroeconomics;
Financial Instruments;
Financial Markets;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Innovation and Invention;
Risk Management;
Product Positioning;
Demand and Consumers;
Financial Services Industry
Greenwood, Robin, and Luis M. Viceira. "MacroMarkets LLC." Harvard Business School Case 211-006, July 2010. (Revised March 2016.)
- 12 Apr 2019
- News