Publications

July 2010 (Revised June 2012)
Background Note

Note: Regulation of Hedge Fund Managers in the U.K. Before and After the Global Financial Crisis

By: Robert C. Pozen and Melissa Anne Hammerle

This note will examine the regulatory framework for hedge funds in the United Kingdom (UK) before and after the financial crisis of 2008. First, it will discuss European Union (EU)-level regulation that applies to the UK as an EU member state. Second, it will discuss... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; European Union; United Kingdom

December 2019
Case

modum.io: Funding a Blockchain-Based Start-Up's Supply Chain Solution

By: Laura Huang, Dominik Roeck, Alex Murray and Erik Hofmann

December 2018
Supplement

Asset Allocation at the Cook County Pension Fund

By: Emil Nuwan Siriwardane

March 10, 2011
Article

Why Balanced Funds Trump Target-Dates in Retirement Plans

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Money

July 1989
Case

Fidelity Management Research Co.: The Mortgage Securities Fund

June 2005
Article

Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

By: Randolph B. Cohen, Joshua Coval and Lubos Pastor

Keywords: Management; Capital

July 2022
Article

Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy

By: Kyle Myers and Lauren Lanahan

We quantify the magnitude of R&D spillovers created by grants to small firms from the US Department of Energy. Our empirical strategy leverages variation due to state-specific matching policies, and we develop a new approach to measuring both geographic and... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Energy; R＆D; Grants; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Patents; Performance; United States

03 Sep 2024
Cold Call Podcast

How the US Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing

Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Semiconductor; Public Administration

15 Aug 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds

Keywords: by Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam; Financial Services

February 2000
Article

Money Chasing Deals?: The Impact of Fund Inflows on the Valuation of Private Equity Investments

By: Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

Keywords: Money; Valuation; Finance; Investment

Article

A Question of Morality: Artists' Values and Public Funding for the Arts

By: Gregory B. Lewis and Arthur C. Brooks

2010
Chapter

The Shape of Things to Come: Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds

By: Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt

Foundational work on institutional theory as a framework for studying organizations underscored its relevance to analyses of entrepreneurship, but entrepreneurship research has often ignored the insights provided by this theoretic approach. In this chapter, we... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Organizations; Research; Theory; Financial Services Industry

April 2018
Article

We Ask Men to Win & Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding

By: Dana Kanze, Laura Huang, Mark Conley and E. Tory Higgins

Male entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested. Drawing upon Regulatory Focus Theory, we propose that the gap originates with a gender bias in the... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Finance; Gender; Prejudice and Bias

September 2016 (Revised April 2022)
Case

Zhang Xin and the Emergence of Chinese Philanthropy

By: Geoffrey Jones and Amanda Yang

This case examines the recent emergence of Chinese business philanthropy through the case of the SOHO China Foundation established by the wife and husband real estate moguls Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi. It begins by describing the early careers of Zhang and Pan, and how... View Details

Keywords: China; Philanthropy Funding; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Personal Development and Career; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Higher Education; Real Estate Industry; China

Article

Lessons From Hollywood: A New Approach To Funding R&D

By: Gary P. Pisano and Andrew W. Lo

Companies find it increasingly difficult to justify long-term, risky R&D investments—particularly in science-based fields such as biotechnology, advanced materials, and energy. We argue in this article that the traditional venture model has limits for such investments... View Details

Keywords: Financial Innovation; Financial Strategy; Project Management; R＆D; Start-up; Innovation Strategy; Business Model; Research and Development; Financial Management; Risk Management; Strategy

February 25, 2019
Article

Impact Investing: A New Way to Fund Cures for Cancer

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Kathy Giusti

December 20, 2012
Blog Post

Make 2013 the Year to Resolve the Money Fund Debate

By: Robert C. Pozen

November 2010 (Revised May 2012)
Case

Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Lauren Cohen and Scott Waggoner

Kishore Karunakaran, President and COO of FFCM, faces a variety of challenges in launching an innovative investment management business in the rapidly evolving ETF space. View Details

Keywords: Investment Management; Institutional Investments; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financial Management; Innovation Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry; Boston

Editorial

Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

By: George Serafeim

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Finance; Social Impact; Indexing; Finance