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- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
corporate standards in Brazil improved enormously, not only because the regulator became tougher and introduced more transparent disclosure standards, but also because there was a big movement to improve corporate governance led by View Details
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
and electricity companies. The news headlines make the arrival of a new book on protecting foreign investment more prescient. Professor Louis T. Wells and coauthor Rafiq Ahmed recently published Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property...
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- April 2004
- Teaching Note
IBET Pension Fund, The (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel
Teaching Note to (9-800-133).
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- November 2018 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence
By: Vikram S Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers
In Spring of 2018, Chris Ailman, CIO of the $200 billion pension plan for California public school teachers (CalSTRS) was mandated by his board to “prioritize engagement with makers and retailers of firearms in California” following a series of gun-related tragedies in...
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Keywords:
Pension Funds;
Pension Plan;
Asset Allocation;
Screening;
ESG;
Gun Violence;
Business and Government Relations;
Values and Beliefs;
Education Industry;
California;
United States
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Caitlin Reimers. "CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence." Harvard Business School Case 819-079, November 2018. (Revised December 2018.)
- Fast Answer
Search Funds
of companies covered as well as availability of private company financial information. PPP loan data - the SBA has a dataset available related to the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program. Includes company address information,...
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- June 2008 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
World Wildlife Fund US
By: Jane Wei-Skillern and Kerry Herman
World Wildlife Fund US is a leading international conservation nonprofit that operates within a global network of WWF organizations. This case examines WWF US's strategy to achieve its mission of protecting natural wildlife and resources. In contrast to traditional...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Environmental Sustainability;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Trust;
Integration;
Sumatra;
United States
Wei-Skillern, Jane, and Kerry Herman. "World Wildlife Fund US." Harvard Business School Case 308-035, June 2008. (Revised August 2008.)
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
the fund grows or declines. The investor is further away from the actual management of his or her fund than during the Internet bubble. The outcome is not likely to be much better. Despite the temptation to...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 12 Jan 2013
- News
Striking a balance on money market funds
- July 2002 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Unilever Superannuation Fund vs. Merrill Lynch, The
By: Andre F. Perold and Joshua Musher
In 2001, the Unilever Superannuation Fund sued Merrill Lynch for damages of 130 million British pounds. Over the period 1977 to 1998, the Unilever Fund had significantly underperformed the benchmark, and its trustees contended that the poor returns resulted from...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Performance Evaluation;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Customer Relationship Management;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Asset Management;
Risk Management;
Legal Liability;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom
Perold, Andre F., and Joshua Musher. "Unilever Superannuation Fund vs. Merrill Lynch, The." Harvard Business School Case 203-034, July 2002. (Revised August 2003.)
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
removal of a poison pill (a device that makes it difficult for a firm to be acquired), ask for a share repurchase or dividend increase, or, in extreme cases, ask for the removal of the CEO. While a few pension funds, like CalPERS, have...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
How Do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?
By: Juliane Begenau and Emil Siriwardane
We study how investment fees vary within private-capital funds. Net-of-fee return clustering suggests that most funds have two tiers of fees, and we decompose differences across tiers into both management and performance-based fees. Managers of venture capital funds...
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Keywords:
Pension Funds;
Fee Dispersion;
Search And Negotiation Frictions;
Private Equity;
Investment Funds
Begenau, Juliane, and Emil Siriwardane. "How Do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-073, January 2020. (This working paper has been subsumed by the published paper "Fee Variation in Private Equity." Please see the final version of this paper under "Journal Articles.")
- 31 Oct 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Mutual Funds as Venture Capitalists? Evidence from Unicorns
- June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds
By: Luis M. Viceira
The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for...
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Keywords:
Asset Management;
Investment Funds;
Personal Finance;
Brands and Branding;
Retirement;
Trust;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Viceira, Luis M. "The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds." Harvard Business School Case 207-129, June 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- 09 Jun 2013
- News
Some Baby Steps on Money Funds
- April 2024
- Article
Fee Variation in Private Equity
By: Juliane Begenau and Emil N. Siriwardane
We study how investment fees vary within private-capital funds. Net-of-fee return clustering suggests that most funds have two tiers of fees, and we decompose differences across tiers into both management and performance-based fees. Managers of venture capital funds...
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Keywords:
Pension Funds;
Fee Dispersion;
Search And Negotiation Frictions;
Private Equity;
Investment Funds
Begenau, Juliane, and Emil N. Siriwardane. "Fee Variation in Private Equity." Journal of Finance 79, no. 2 (April 2024): 1199–1247.
- November 2011
- Teaching Note
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (TN)
By: Josh Lerner, Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health
John Macomber, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a veteran of the real estate industry, was studying ways to make workplaces safer for employees long before the Covid-19 crisis hit. Now that issues like air and water quality are top of...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
opinion is that the Administration should be candid and recognize that social security is a TAX used to fund a basic retirement benefit—the pension equivalent of food stamps. Higher income retirees should...
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- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Giving Named Fellowship Funds Giving Named Fellowship Funds Making HBS Accessible Over the years, HBS alumni, friends of the School, and organizations have established more than 750 View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
that the Chinese wall was no protection at all for the independence of the analysts. Trying to sell IPOs, analysts gave glowing recommendations to firms which collapsed within months. Trying to support the stocks of firms previously sold...
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by D. Quinn Mills