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The Sandbox: Creating a Bottom-Up Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Authors: Ghosh, Shikhar; Applegate, Lynda M.; Ghosh, Rhea; Kumar, Amar
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The Sandbox, which started with an ostensibly simple mission--to provide the space and financial resources for local social entrepreneurs to test and scale innovative, high-impact ideas in a geographically-defined area--had, in three years, grown from a grant-making operation to an expansive network of eight integrated initiatives.
Ultimate Fighting Championship: License to Operate (A, B)
Authors: Serafeim, George; Welch, Kyle
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The case describes the challenges that Ultimate Fighting Championship faced as a result of regulatory opposition, public opinion, and loss of the license to operate.
Oddo Securities - ESG Integration
Authors: Serafeim, George; Healy, Paul M.; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The case describes the process of integrating environmental, social, and governance issues into valuation models and research analyst recommendations.
BANEX and the ,,No Pago" Movement (A, B)
Authors: Cole, Shawn; Kempner, Baily Blair
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance
Authors: Cheng, Beiting; Ioannou, Ioannis; Serafeim, George
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Corporate social responsibility may benefit society, but does it benefit the corporation? Indeed it does, according to a new study that shows how CSR can make it easier for firms to secure financing for new projects.
Shell Nigeria: The WikiLeaks Cables
Authors: Sucher, Sandra J.; Henderson, Rebecca; Preble, Matthew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Among the thousands of WikiLeaks cables published by early 2011 were several that shed light on Royal Dutch Shell's operations in Nigeria...
Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile
Authors: Segel, Arthur I.; Ibanez, Nicolas; Verjee, Jay
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
This case is intended to introduce students to a particular business model of for-profit conservation and to force them to think critically about whether it is a viable model, from a financial and social standpoint.
Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Taliaferro, Ryan D.; Blyth, Stephen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Investment manager James Franey confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global financial crisis of 2008 when he notices a wide yield spread between two U.S. Treasury bonds that mature on the same date. Franey must decide if there is an opportunity, how to structure a trade to exploit it, and how much of his fund's capital to allocate. The case may be used to discuss the causes of anomalous securities prices during the 2008 crisis, to explore causes and consequences of the 2008 crisis generally, and to discuss possible interventions by government, central banks, and other oversight bodies.
Overcoming the Barriers to Long-term Thinking in Financial Markets
Authors: Curran, Ruth; Chapple, Alice
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Forum for the Future
Publication Year: 2011
Many sources now show that the balance of investment in the market as a whole has moved too far towards short-termism. This may not deliver the best outcomes for the investor, either from a financial or from a wider social and environmental perspective.
Responsible Investment in Vietnam
Authors: Carmody, Lucy; Nguyen, Veronique; Brown, Michelle
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2011
There is a general lack of coherent information available to investors in Vietnam on both sustainability context issues and specific company environment, social and governance criteria, such as community investment, emissions, water use, employee health and welfare and diversity and independence of boards. This shortage of information continues to hold back responsible investment in the country.
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