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- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
the summer issue of Marketing Science. Elberse discusses her research on the entertainment industry in this e-mail interview. Salls: Briefly describe the state of the motion picture industry today. Elberse: The U.S. theatrical motion...
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- October 2021
- Supplement
Engine No. 1: An Activist Hedge Fund Pursues Stakeholder Capitalism (B)
By: Mark Kramer
Engine Number 1's proxy fight succeeded in part because Exxon shareholders had lost money in the preceding years and because climate change was a high-profile issue. The B case raises the question of whether Engine No. 1's next target should be Facebook, where social...
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Keywords:
Proxy Fight;
Hedge Fund Activism;
Social Impact;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Climate Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Goals and Objectives
Kramer, Mark. "Engine No. 1: An Activist Hedge Fund Pursues Stakeholder Capitalism (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-038, October 2021.
- Fast Answer
Search Funds
through to "all loan data", see data dictionary for available data types and descriptors. Industry Research: Consult the list of library databases that cover industries and market research reports learn more about a...
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- August 2019 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Paradigm Capital Value Fund
By: Luis M. Viceira and Elena Corsi
Karl Jan Erick Hummel had founded Paradigm Capital Value Fund in 2007 together with Columbia Business School Professor Bruce Greenwald, an expert in value investing and now chairman of the fund. The fund followed the principles of value investing to their target...
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Keywords:
Investment Activism;
Investment Portfolio;
Financial Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry
Viceira, Luis M., and Elena Corsi. "Paradigm Capital Value Fund." Harvard Business School Case 220-014, August 2019. (Revised November 2022.)
- March 2010 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Mirae Asset: Korea's Mutual Fund Pioneer
By: Mukti Khaire, Michael Shih-ta Chen and G.A. Donovan
Park Hyeon-Joo, the founder and chairman of Korea's earliest and largest mutual fund company, plans to expand internationally. After first offering emerging market funds to its Korean customers, the company then began selling local-currency funds in India and Brazil....
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Global Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
South Korea
Khaire, Mukti, Michael Shih-ta Chen, and G.A. Donovan. "Mirae Asset: Korea's Mutual Fund Pioneer." Harvard Business School Case 810-123, March 2010. (Revised June 2011.)
- April 2015
- Article
Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System
By: Adi Sunderam
Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on money demand. This paper asks whether the short-term liabilities of the shadow banking system behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money...
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Sunderam, Adi. "Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System." Review of Financial Studies 28, no. 4 (April 2015): 939–977.
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
made available for investment has ebbed and flowed. That phenomenon seems to be shifting, he said. "One theory is today the money doesn't go away. The limited partner community has defined venture as an asset class; they're going to...
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Market Reactions to Sovereign Litigation
By: Faisal Z. Ahmed and Laura Alfaro
Recent rulings in the ongoing litigation over the pari passu clause in Argentinian sovereign debt instruments have generated considerable controversy. Some official-sector participants and academic articles have suggested that the rulings will disrupt or impede...
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Keywords:
Sovereign Debt;
Litigation;
Vulture Funds;
Argentina;
Sovereign Finance;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Markets;
Argentina
Ahmed, Faisal Z., and Laura Alfaro. "Market Reactions to Sovereign Litigation." Capital Markets Law Journal 12, no. 2 (April 2017): 141–163.
- August 1993 (Revised October 1993)
- Case
Dimensional Fund Advisors: 1993
By: Jay O. Light
A small California-based money manager is now offering specialty products for institutional investors based upon recent financial research findings.
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Light, Jay O. "Dimensional Fund Advisors: 1993." Harvard Business School Case 294-025, August 1993. (Revised October 1993.)
- May 2009
- Case
Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products
By: John H. McArthur and Sunru Yong
Ceres is a leading player in the growing organic gardening industry, selling seeds, small plants, and related items. Their distribution depends heavily on retail sales through independent nurseries and garden centers. Because these small dealers are unable to finance...
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Keywords:
Accounting Procedures;
Marketing;
Business Growth;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Marketing Strategy;
Expansion;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Marketing Channels;
Credit;
Financial Statements;
Sales;
Retail Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
McArthur, John H., and Sunru Yong. "Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products." Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-017, May 2009.
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Spend Money on Other People
gives some cash to two women in Harvard Square. The catch this time: Each of them must spend the money on someone else. "We've shown in our research that giving money to others actually does make people...
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by Carmen Nobel
- June 1995
- Teaching Note
ARPPS: Adjustable Rate Perpetual Preferred Stock and MMP: Money Market Preferred Stock TN
By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
Keywords:
Stocks
- 2015
- Working Paper
On the Increasing Centralization of US Money and Credit
By: Amar Bhidé
My current work on the debt market liquidity (Bhidé 2015) and antecedent book (Bhidé 2010) critiques the de facto centralization of credit extension in the U.S. This essay examines how the increased centralization of credit maps into a decline in the decentralized...
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Bhidé, Amar. "On the Increasing Centralization of US Money and Credit." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-022, June 2015.
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
entrust their money to one of the big investment banks or brokerages—Citibank, Chase, Merrill Lynch, or Bear Sterns—which then invests it for them in hedge funds. Funds of funds, the word is on Wall Street,...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- September 2018
- Article
Religious Shoppers Spend Less Money
By: Didem Kurt, J. Jeffrey Inman and Francesca Gino
Although religion is a central aspect of life for many people across the globe, there is scant research on how religion affects people’s non-religious routines. In the present research, we identify a frequent consumption activity that is influenced by religiosity:...
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Kurt, Didem, J. Jeffrey Inman, and Francesca Gino. "Religious Shoppers Spend Less Money." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 78 (September 2018): 116–124.
- June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Exchange-Traded Funds at Vanguard (A)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Steven Vickers
Vanguard Group management, led by CEO John Brennan, was considering whether to launch exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in early 2000. ETFs, first created in the early 1990s, combined aspects of traditional mutual funds and closed-end funds. The US ETF industry had reached...
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Keywords:
Investment Funds;
Managerial Roles;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Experience and Expertise;
Market Entry and Exit;
Network Effects;
Profit;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Product Launch;
Asset Management;
Distribution Channels;
Ownership;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Steven Vickers. "Exchange-Traded Funds at Vanguard (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-134, June 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- March 2010
- Supplement
Whose Money Is It Anyway? (C)
By: V.G. Narayanan, Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon
The case describes how the Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization and its corporate parent resolved the issue of how the disputed funds would be distributed and used.
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Business Subsidiaries;
Organizational Design;
Conflict and Resolution;
Resource Allocation;
Health Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Richard G. Hamermesh, and Rachel Gordon. "Whose Money Is It Anyway? (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 810-031, March 2010.
- 2005
- Working Paper
Money Illusion in the Stock Market: The Modigliani-Cohn Hypothesis
By: Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
Modigliani and Cohn [1979] hypothesize that the stock market suffers from money illusion, discounting real cash flows at nominal discount rates. While previous research has focused on the pricing of the aggregate stock market relative to Treasury bills, the...
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Cohen, Randolph B., Christopher Polk, and Tuomo Vuolteenaho. "Money Illusion in the Stock Market: The Modigliani-Cohn Hypothesis." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 11018, January 2005.
- June 2006 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Creditor Activism in Sovereign Debt: 'Vulture' Tactics or Market Backbone
By: Laura Alfaro and Ingrid Vogel
The role of distressed debt funds, also known as "vulture funds," in sovereign debt restructuring was a hotly debated topic, especially after the success of Elliot Associates in converting an $11 million investment in Peruvian bonds worth $21 million into a $58 million...
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Keywords:
Vulture Funds;
Borrowing and Debt;
Bonds;
Investment Activism;
Investment Funds;
Sovereign Finance;
Government and Politics;
Contracts;
Business and Government Relations;
Peru
Alfaro, Laura, and Ingrid Vogel. "Creditor Activism in Sovereign Debt: 'Vulture' Tactics or Market Backbone." Harvard Business School Case 706-057, June 2006. (Revised April 2024.)
- November 2009 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund
By: Arthur I Segel and Justin Seth Ginsburgh
The Jonathan Rose Companies must decide how to design and launch an innovative new real estate fund focused on green and transit oriented properties. JRC seeks to show through the fund that smart growth and green buildings provide superior economic returns to sprawl...
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Keywords:
Property;
Buildings and Facilities;
Transition;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Funds;
Investment;
Marketing;
Energy Conservation;
Business Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Finance;
Real Estate Industry
Segel, Arthur I., and Justin Seth Ginsburgh. "Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund." Harvard Business School Case 210-033, November 2009. (Revised April 2010.)