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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
as a student. Nneka made an impact on the founders at that conference and, three years later after working in healthcare consulting and healthcare investing in Nigeria following graduation, Nneka joined the...
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- December 2011 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Aviva Investors
By: George Serafeim
The Aviva Investors case describes the challenge of integrating sustainability considerations into the strategy and business practices of companies and into the decision making process of the investment community. Steve Waygood, Chief Responsible Investment Officer at...
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Keywords:
Investing;
Investment Management;
Shareholder Activism;
Disclosure;
Stock Exchanges;
Sustainability;
Sustainable Development;
Sustainability Reporting;
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Social Impact;
Activism;
Investment;
Management;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
United Kingdom
Serafeim, George, Robert G. Eccles, and Kyle Armbrester. "Aviva Investors." Harvard Business School Case 112-047, December 2011. (Revised May 2015.)
- 25 Sep 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Invest in Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning
- 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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- 27 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages
- 2009
- Working Paper
The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning
By: Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz and Sonja Olhoft Rego
This study investigates whether private equity (PE) firms influence the tax practices of their portfolio firms. Prior research documents that PE firms create economic value in portfolio firms through effective governance, financial, and operational engineering. Given...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Investment Portfolio;
Corporate Governance;
Taxation;
Ownership Stake;
Value Creation
Badertscher, Brad, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego. "The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-004, July 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
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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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- Forthcoming
- Article
Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups
By: Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang, Erika Kirgios and Katherine L. Milkman
Why do some homogeneous groups face backlash for lacking diversity, whereas others escape censure? We show that a homogeneous group’s size changes how it is perceived and whether decision makers pursue greater diversity in its ranks. We theorize that people make...
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Rai, Aneesh, Edward H. Chang, Erika Kirgios, and Katherine L. Milkman. "Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups." Organization Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online April 18, 2024.)
- 2014
- Book
Soulful Corporations: A Values-Based Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Shashank Shah and Ramamoorthy V.E.
Keywords:
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Corporate Citizenship;
Philanthropy;
Values;
Stakeholder Engagement;
Impact Investment;
Millennium Development Goals;
India
Shah, Shashank, and Ramamoorthy V.E. Soulful Corporations: A Values-Based Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility. India Studies in Business and Economics. New Delhi: Springer, 2014.
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Working capital loans have a big impact on India’s small business owners
Maya Chorengel (MBA 1997), managing director of Elevar Equity, describes her investment firm’s work to provide working capital loans to small business owners in India. (Published October 2014)
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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.)
- 21 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital
By: Daniel Green and Benjamin N. Roth
Portfolio allocation decisions increasingly incorporate social values. We develop a tractable framework to study how competition between investors to own socially valuable assets affects social welfare. Relative to the most common social-investing strategies, we...
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Keywords:
Socially Responsible Investing;
Investment Portfolio;
Welfare;
Social Issues;
Investment Return
Green, Daniel, and Benjamin N. Roth. "The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
economic equality fosters economic growth, primarily by encouraging consumption among people who spend a lot and invest modestly. For example, the study concludes that the US pays handsomely for the low growth that comes with income and...
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by James Heskett
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Flexible Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments
By: Qiang Liu, Thomas J. Steenburgh and Sachin Gupta
Different instruments are relevant for different marketing objectives (category demand expansion or market share stealing). To help brand managers make informed marketing mix decisions, it is essential that marketing mix models appropriately measure the different...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Investment;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Mathematical Methods
Liu, Qiang, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Sachin Gupta. "The Flexible Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-012, September 2011.
- September–October 2020
- Article
The Past, Present, and (Near) Future of Gene Therapy and Gene Editing
By: Julia Pian, Amitabh Chandra and Ariel Dora Stern
Emerging gene therapy and gene-editing technologies will have a growing impact on patient lives and health-care delivery. We analyzed a decade of data on clinical trials and venture capital investments to understand the likely trajectory of genetically focused...
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Keywords:
Gene Therapy;
Gene Editing;
Impact;
Health Care and Treatment;
Technological Innovation;
Health Testing and Trials;
Venture Capital;
Change
Pian, Julia, Amitabh Chandra, and Ariel Dora Stern. "The Past, Present, and (Near) Future of Gene Therapy and Gene Editing." NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 1, no. 5 (September–October 2020).
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How will Emerging Markets Shape the Alternative Assets Arena?
By: Roberto Charvel
This article looks at the growth of pensions in Latin America and its future impact in local alternative assets' investments locally and in the developed world.
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Keywords:
Emerging Economies;
Emerging Markets;
Pension;
Institutional Investments;
Alternative Assets;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Services Industry;
Latin America
Charvel, Roberto. "How will Emerging Markets Shape the Alternative Assets Arena?" Venture Equity Latin America 10, no. 15 (September 15, 2011).
- February 2018 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Timothy J. Becker, Ricardo Andrade and Sayiddah F. McCree
In January 2018, Caelan Langan, an associate at KSW Partners LLC (“KSW”), was asked by Katherine Scott, the partner for whom he worked, to recommend a proposed structure to acquire a prominent office building in San Francisco for their most recent fund. Caelan was...
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Keywords:
Real Estate;
Alternative Investment Structures;
Property;
Acquisition;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Management;
Taxation;
Policy
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, Timothy J. Becker, Ricardo Andrade, and Sayiddah F. McCree. "The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate." Harvard Business School Case 218-077, February 2018. (Revised December 2019.)
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
funnel our impact through them.” For more information on Community Partners, contact HBS Alumni Clubs and Associations. HBS Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education with Webinars The HBS Alumni Angels...
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Margie Kelley
- Article
High School Curriculum and Financial Outcomes: The Impact of Mandated Personal Finance and Mathematics Courses
By: Shawn Cole, Anna Paulson and Gauri Kartini Shastry
Financial literacy and cognitive capabilities are convincingly linked to the quality of financial decision-making. Yet, there is little evidence that education intended to improve financial decision-making is successful. Using plausibly exogenous variation in exposure...
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Keywords:
Financial Literacy;
Cognitive Capability;
Secondary Education;
Personal Finance;
Decision Making
Cole, Shawn, Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry. "High School Curriculum and Financial Outcomes: The Impact of Mandated Personal Finance and Mathematics Courses." Journal of Human Resources 51, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 656–698.