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  • 17 Apr 2014
  • News

A Family Investment

Murat Özyeg in (MBA 2003) always knew that eventually he would join the Fiba Group, the investment firm he watched his father, Hüsnü Özyeg in (MBA 1969), build in the 1980s. He was also aware that education would be key to his ability to... View Details
  • 02 Dec 2017
  • News

A Leveraged Investment

expanded his business almost tenfold since attending the program. Hesham was so enthusiastic about OPM that he convinced his wife, Adlina, that she should attend. Adlina was at a key juncture with her business—a consumer electronics concern in Dubai that she launched... View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Investment as the Opportunity Cost of Dividend Signaling

By: Zach Kaplan and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
We provide evidence that firms with weak investment opportunities (those whose current earnings justify a greater valuation than firms with strong investment opportunities) signal their permanent earnings level through their dividends. In the cross-section, we show... View Details
Keywords: Dividend Signaling; Investment; Opportunities
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  • October 1993 (Revised September 1994)
  • Case

Northern Telecom (A): Greenwich Investment Proposal (Condensed)

By: Robert J. Dolan
The business products division has developed a business proposal asking for $50 million to fund the creation of a new telephone system for the small business market. The company's last entry into this marketplace lost $70 million. The new product would face 100... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Communication Technology; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment; Product Development; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

Inspired by Dean Kim B. Clark's vision for the School, Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. (MBA '69), recently made a generous gift to HBS that will fund a new classroom building. "You can't succeed in the world today without having a global... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

As chair of the investment committee for a college, Sam Hayes was faced with a challenging dilemma: Should the committee invest only in socially responsible funds even though... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2012 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Man Group (B)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Thomas M. Clay
The Man Group was a huge and successful UK-based hedge fund and fund of funds manager. Through acquisitions, the company had consciously diversified its portfolio of investment products. In 2007 Man had to decide whether or not to spin off its brokerage business. Man... View Details
Keywords: Hedge Funds; Asset Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Investment Funds; Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • June 2019
  • Teaching Plan

THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Nathaniel Schwalb
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  • 30 May 2019
  • News

How to Ensure ESG Investing Isn’t Whitewash

  • June 2013 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

Blackstone Alternative Asset Management

By: Robin Greenwood, Luis M. Viceira and Jared Dourdeville
This case explores reasons for Blackstone Alternative Asset Management's (BAAM's) growth from 2007-2013, a time when the overall fund of hedge funds industry contracted substantially. Additionally, the case analyzes evolving business models and value propositions... View Details
Keywords: Hedge Fund; Fund Of Hedge Funds; Hedge Fund Industry Growth; Fund Of Hedge Funds Industry Growth; Evolving Business Models; Value Propositions In The Fund Of Hege Funds Industry; Business Model; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 26 Sep 2016
  • News

Steward gets $1.25b to fund expansion, repay Cerberus

  • July 2008 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

Fidelity Investments' Charitable Gift Fund (A)

By: Robert C. Pozen
Deborah Pege, an attorney at Fidelity Investments, needs to decide whether Fidelity should attempt to patent business processes involved with its new charitable gift fund. The case explores the conditions that must be satisfied in order to receive a patent and raises... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Patents; Business Processes; Value
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  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

giving, recent graduates, international alumni, and HBS Fund Investors Society membership. A graduate of Wellesley College, Anna is chairman of the Spangler Companies, a private investment firm. Tom, who... View Details
  • October 2024
  • Case

SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea

By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen
In August 2023, SWEN Blue Ocean, a €170 million impact fund that invested in startups contributing to ocean sustainability, faced a critical investment decision. Part of SWEN Capital Partners, an €8 billion, Paris-based private equity fund, Blue Ocean was co-founded in... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Finance; Capital; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Investment Funds; Science-Based Business; Financial Services Industry; France; Paris; Italy
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  • 10 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

amount of money to each,” says Nanda. “Equally important, we wanted to see if they were just investing in a lot of worse firms, or if these long-shot firms were actually higher in value if they succeeded.” The researchers found that the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology
  • June 2022
  • Case

PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product

By: Daniel Green, Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo
The case explores whether alternative investments play a unique role in achieving low carbon dioxide emissions at the portfolio level. This case is set in April of 2020 and follows Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, and Peter Tind Larsen, Head of... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Footprint; Alternative Assets; Alternative Investment Vehicles; Pension Fund Investing; Private Equity; Renewable Energy; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Denmark
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  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

you wanted to attract more! Q: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, many developing countries sought outside infrastructure investments and even privatization of these operations. These initiatives were encouraged by world development... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (B): Kevin Hart and Clubhouse

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Andreessen Horowitz secures an agreement with Clubhouse, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round. One of the factors that insiders saw as pivotal in the race to be Clubhouse’s VC firm of choice was Andreessen... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 30 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

venture funding, up from 4 percent in 2004, according to data from PitchBook.) Murray is Kearney's thesis adviser. Huang, whom Brooks met in the initial stages of their research, studies the role of "gut feel" in investment... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 20 Aug 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

Keywords: Re: Rebecca M. Henderson & George Serafeim; Financial Services